Category Archives: Gender Politics

Lessons from a Feminist Paradise on Equal Pay Day

Is Sweden a feminist paradise? Continue reading

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Title IX: the mainstream-media suppressed view

“Schools have found that to satisfy proportionality, they must cancel men’s sports teams because of women’s lack of interest. (For example, UCLA dropped its men’s swimming and diving programs—programs responsible for 22 Olympic medals.) Can you imagine this happening to activities where women have more interest?” Continue reading

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Is America A “Rape Culture”?

“Let us, by all means, confront ugly, sexist, victim-blaming attitudes when we see them. But this can be done without promoting sexist attitudes in feminist clothing: that a woman’s word automatically deserves more weight than a man’s; that all men bear responsibility for rape and ‘normal’ men need to be taught not to rape; or that a woman who is inebriated but fully conscious is not responsible for her actions while an equally inebriated man is.” Continue reading

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From Drone Strike Policy to Campus Rape Awareness Campaigns: Musings on Male Culpability in the 21st Century

“At the dawn of the 21st century, we [men] live under a burden of original sin more subtle than anything the Church ever concocted.” Continue reading

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Obama’s Missed Opportunity: A White House Council on Boys and Men

“Fortunately, our daughters’ and mothers’ health challenges are addressed by seven federal offices of women’s health. Our sons’ and fathers’ are not addressed by a single federal office of men’s health” — this despite the fact that men’s health in general is poorer, resulting in men on average having a shorter life span than women and dying sooner from nine of the ten leading causes of death. Continue reading

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Guns don’t kill people — our sons do

“…[O]ur daughters are able to find the same guns in the same homes, are about as likely to be mentally ill, have the same family values and are exposed to the same violence in the media. Our daughters, however, do not kill. Why the difference?” Continue reading

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“If you’ve got it, charge for it”: The Feminism 2.0 Manifesto

Can you think of anything more gender divisive, more reinforcing of the gender wage gap, more 1950s regressive of male-female sexuality…than this? Continue reading

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The very worst Canadian feminists in action

The very worst Canadian feminists in action, behaving exactly like pre-1970s white bigots who tried to keep black Americans out of restaurants, schools, theaters…. A lot of feminist “George Wallaces.” Continue reading

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Women’s Federation sells fear and hatred in place of facts

“The anniversary of the Montreal Massacre is to the violence-against-women industry what the Superbowl is to cars and Pepsi. Instead of actual products, though, women’s advocacy groups are selling emotions to women: in particular, the emotions of fear and hatred.” Continue reading

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Female teachers accused of giving boys lower marks

“Female teachers did, on average, award lower marks to boys than unidentified external examiners.” Continue reading

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