The Other Side of the College Sexual Assault Crisis

  And excerpt from the cover story in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/2015/12/18/other-side-sexual-assault-crisis-403285.html?rx=us   Colleges have recently ramped up their investigation of sexual assault accusations because a 19-page letter told them to do so. In 2011, the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights issued a “Dear Colleague” letter. It clarified that sexual violence is a subset of…

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Gender Neutrality

Why do parents attempt to fit a square peg in a round hole? When new parents try their best to force a child to be gender-neutral, I find it to be totally ridiculous. Boys and girls are inherently, fundamentally, and irreconcilably different. In this article in Newsweek, Jesse Ellison wrote: In 1978, the year I was born, feminists like my…

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Why Women Should Stop Trying to Be Perfect

For Newsweek/The Daily Beast, Barnard President Debora Spar writes about the challenges of “having it all” and why women should stop trying to be perfect. An excerpt: “To begin with, we need to acknowledge that biology matters—not that it determines everything, but that it’s one of those areas of life that probably shouldn’t be ignored. This…

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