The
Return of the Equal Rights Amendment. When Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendment in 1972,
supporters said it would bring about huge changes in attitudes and practices, and they were right. Women
now mostly work outside the home, they run giant corporations, they serve in the military in combat zones, they
occupy high offices in all three branches of government, and one may be the next president. The amazing
thing is that the amendment precipitated all these advances without ever being ratified.
Fatherless
families, a dangerous Bill and a dilemma for David Cameron. What is that strange
and unfamiliar noise, a bit like the distant rumble of a dam breaking or tectonic plates on the
move? It is the almost forgotten sound of a civilisation fighting back. For years
we have watched helplessly the undermining of the traditional family, which has been relentlessly
attacked by an alliance of feminists, gay rights activists, divorce lawyers and "cultural Marxists"
who grasped that this was the surest way to destroy Western society.
1968
Policies and Election 2008. Two 1960s policy "innovations" were especially destructive. The
Flemming Rule (1960) was named for Arthur Flemming, then head of the Department of Health and Human Services,
who issued an administrative ruling that states could not deny eligibility for income assistance through the
AFDC program on the grounds that a home was "unsuitable" because the woman's children were illegitimate.
In 1968, the Supreme Court's "Man-in-the-House" rule struck down the practice of states declaring a home
unsuitable (i.e., an immoral environment) if there was a man in the house not married to the mother.
Thus, out-of-wedlock births and cohabitation were legitimized.
Denver
diversity-training video said to 'hammer the white guy'. The city of Denver is showing its
employees a diversity training video that portrays a white man as a narrow-minded buffoon —
triggering allegations of "institutional racism" against Anglos. "Right now, their diversity program is
racially motivated against white males," said Dennis Supple, a heating, ventilating and air-conditioning
mechanic who has worked for the city 1½ years.
City Worker: Denver
Diversity Video Discriminates. A diversity training video has drawn a complaint from
a Denver city employee who claims its unfavorable portrayal of whites amounts to "institutional
racism." A city official said Tuesday [11/27/2007] it was suspending use of the video.
Have You Bashed
a White Male Today? [Scroll down] Here we are forty years later, and it seems to me that
all we've really accomplished is an exchange of all of our old prejudices for a new one. The
demographic group that now gets it full on the chin at every turn, in every public sphere, is the
lone, white male. Christians, especially the Catholic Church, are also an approved target, but
that topic is for another article. So we haven't gotten any better as human beings. We
simply changed targets.
Feminism and the English
Language: Our language used to belong to all its speakers and readers and writers. But in the 1970s and
'80s, arrogant ideologues began recasting English into heavy artillery to defend the borders of the New Feminist state.
In consequence we have all got used to sentences where puffed-up words like "chairperson" and "humankind" strut and preen,
where he-or-she's keep bashing into surrounding phrases like bumper cars and related deformities blossom like
blisters; they are all markers of an epoch-making victory of propaganda over common sense.
Hillary Underrates Women. To listen to Senator
Hillary Clinton proposing gender pay equity legislation last week, one might reasonably conclude that she is
paid only 77% of Senator Obama's $165,200 salary. … Mrs. Clinton tries to obscure the trend toward equal
pay and the reality that men and women generally have equal pay for equal work now — if they have
the same jobs, responsibilities, and skills. Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Obama are paid identically, as are
many other men and women with the same job.
A Complete Hillary
Whitewash. Feminism has been a very disgraced brand for decades. The final nail was placed
in the coffin when feminists tried so athletically to see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil with Bill
Clinton's record of serial adultery, sexual harassment, and even a credible accusation of rape. But now
that Hillary Clinton has finally conceded to Barack Obama, the media elites have suddenly discovered the
glorious and militant cause of women.
'Career women' empty nation's sperm
banks. Career women in Sydney are creating a nationwide sperm shortage as they race to have a
family before turning 40. With demand for sperm growing rapidly — particularly from single
Sydney women — clinics are importing vials from the US on a monthly basis. ... The most
surprising trend has been a 40 percent rise in the number of single women seeking sperm donors.
"These are women, aged from 35 to 40, who are single, attractive career women, who cannot find a
man to have a baby with," he said.
The Editor says...
If, as the article says, these are "attractive career women", they should have no trouble finding
a husband. It's called a husband. Say it with me.
AAUW's
Fuzzy Math is an Insult to Working Women. Equal Pay Day has become one of our annual rites of
Spring. And once again Hillary and her gal-pals were out in force, trying to convince us that women
are undervalued and underpaid in the American workplace. This year the gender victimologists came
armed with a new report from the American Association of University Women, Behind the Pay Gap, which
purports to show that one year after graduation, women are paid 80% of what men earn.
The Truth
About the Pay Gap. Equal Pay Day, observed this year on April 24, is named for something
that, we are told, doesn't exist — equal pay for men and women. … Most if not all of the discrepancy can
be traced to factors other than sexism. When it comes to pay equity, we really have come a long way.
Gender
Equality Gobbledygook: One would think that the just-released 148-page United Nations Children's
Fund (UNICEF) report, "The State of the World's Children 2007" — with its exclusive focus on gender
equality — was produced by leftists and feminists. Instead, it is the product of Ann M.
Veneman, the Executive Director of UNICEF and a Bush appointee who promised to bring back a sane perspective
on children's issues. It is obvious at the outset, however, that the report merely re-packages the
feminist agenda without even changing the tired old rhetoric.
Men
Aren't Couch Potatoes, After All. Did you hear about the latest Urban Legend to bite the dust?
Back in 1989 Arlie Hochschild wrote a book called The Second Shift. This was Hochschild's
conclusion: Compared to men, "women work an extra month of 24-hour days a year." Basically
she was making the claim that while wives cook, clean, and sew after a long day at the office, His Royal
Highness was chillin' in front of the TV set.
L.A.
fire captain awarded $3.75 million. In the latest bizarre court case involving the Los Angeles Fire
Department, a jury has awarded $3.75 million to a male fire captain who said he was retaliated against for
not making training exercises easier for women.
The girls on The
View. These are women who pride themselves on being independent and empowered when they dress
like prostitutes (look at the view of cleavage on the View!). These are the women who watch the
View. These are the women who support Hillary Rodham Clinton. These are the women on the
show who ask Senator Clinton questions like "Do you think being a mom will help you in the White
House?" as they did on December 20.
This just in: Feminists achieve their goal.
51%
of Women Are Now Living Without Spouse. For what experts say is probably the first time, more
American women are living without a husband than with one, according to a New York Times analysis of census
results. In 2005, 51 percent of women said they were living without a spouse, up from 35 percent
in 1950 and 49 percent in 2000.
[Don't be mislead by the numbers. Many of these women live with men, but without the formality of marriage.]
Update:
Journalistic
Malpractice in "Marriage is Dead" Report. On Tuesday, January 16th, 2007, the American people
awoke to startling and disturbing news: for the first time ever, the majority of women in the country
were living without a husband. ... [But] it's not true. The entire story (based on the work of one
ax-grinding, irresponsible, agenda-driven journalist for the New York Times) has been cooked up from willful,
blatant and shameful distortions. Amazingly enough, none of the most respected and purportedly responsible
media authorities have taken the trouble to call him on it.
At
universities, little learned from 9/11. The feminists at Harvard seek to remove every vestige of
patriarchy in America, but they have said almost nothing about the complete dismissal of women's rights by
radical Islam. To do so would be to attack Islamic culture, and according to multiculturalism, every
culture is equal and none is evil.
As
NOW holds its annual convention, is feminism still relevant? One panel discussion speculated
that some women want to avoid the feminist stereotype of bra-burning man-haters, or could be unfamiliar with
current women's issues. Other women, such as National Review's Washington editor Kate O'Beirne, have
argued that most women don't want the things feminists are fighting for. In her recent
book, … O'Beirne argued that the feminist movement not only led to the breakdown of the
traditional family, but also degraded motherhood, weakened the military and much more.
Moms make lousy
dads. One of the more fatuous beliefs that has been foisted off by self-proclaimed feminists
and other politically correct lamebrains is that children don't really need fathers.
Fatherless
On Father's Day. Less than 50 years ago 8% of children were born out of wedlock. Today that
number is more than 40%. On Father's Day children who have a father at home have reason to be grateful.
Statistically, those who do not are destined to have a much harder life. On this Father's Day only a small
percentage of families are honoring a father. The children born out of wedlock never had a father in the
home. Other children's fathers have left never to return, or only see them occasionally. Still other
children are denied contact with their fathers by their mothers or the courts.
Getting
theirs: In the popular culture of America today, Ms. Levy argues, female chauvinist pigs are
women who promote the sexual objectification of other women, and of themselves. But, unlike their
truck-driving male counterparts, they believe that in doing so they are emancipating women from the
patriarchal male agenda of the past.
Raising boys that
feminists will hate: Part two. Make no mistake about it: misandry (man hatred)
is now the dominating motif of postmodernism.
The
superstition of equality. The Myth of course, is that men and women have identical aptitudes
for math and science, and the gender disparities in these fields reflect discrimination. The modern
superstition is that if the government could just have enough enforcement power in enough different areas,
we could wipe out the differences in male and female participation in math and hard sciences.
Brainwashing the Children: A Global
Effort. Emma Goldman (often called "Red Emma") gave a speech in San Francisco during the
suffragette movement. A contemporary of Chesterton, she said that if men were oppressing women, women
were to blame because of the way they raised their sons. Her speech didn't go over well, but her words
still apply today. Sons are no longer raised by their mothers to be men, but some sissified hybrid that
God didn't create or intend. Their individuality and ruggedness has been drummed or drugged out of them
by the socialists in Washington, DC.
The feminist complaint
festival: There's one problem with Equal Pay Day — the premise is bogus. Department of
Labor data confirms that the median wage of a full-time working woman is three-quarters of that of a full-time
working man, but like too many statistics, this fact ignores more than it reveals. This data doesn't
account for relevant factors such as occupation, experience and educational attainment. Feminists may
not like it, but the evidence shows that women's choices — not discrimination — cause
wage gap.
Betty Friedan's
passing: Orthodox feminism's secondary solution, to make men more involved in children's
lives, has been stymied by its simultaneous commitment to divorce, unwed parenting, and female sexual
"autonomy" as signs of social progress. If men aren't in the home, they can hardly do any of
the housework, can they?
Don't give us
government childcare for Mother's Day. What's the perfect Mother's Day gift? A bouquet
of tulips? Jewelry? Breakfast in bed? The National Organization for Women has something a
little more expensive in mind — universal childcare.
Feminism isn't
dead, but a new book wounds it badly. Some women protest, "I'm a feminist, just not a
radical feminist." Kate O'Beirne is impatient with such qualifications. She is not any
kind of feminist, and when you finish her sparkling new book "Women Who Make the World Worse," you
won't be one either.
Debunking
militant feminist orthodoxy: Kate O'Beirne's "Women Who Make the World Worse" is one
of the boldest books challenging the orthodoxy of political correctness to be released in years. Above
all, it documents the real damage inflicted on our culture by radical feminism and the women who lead that
destructive movement.
Feminists
Abuse Domestic Violence Laws. Radical feminists who would be the recipients of the act's awesome bureaucratic
and money power are very selective about the kinds of violence they will target in 10 to 20 foreign countries. They
have no interest in speaking up for the hundreds of thousands of unborn girls in China and India who are victims of
sex-selection abortions.
Why I don't take
feminists seriously: Generally speaking, feminists get together with other feminists
because it is less expensive than seeing a therapist. Feminists are usually drawn together by
an inability to deal with men. When they get together, whether in a small group or a large
one, criticism of males tends to dominate the discourse.
Why I don't take
feminists seriously, part II. Feminists are less concerned with women's rights than they
are with their own right to have an abortion. George Bush has done more for women's rights than any
president in modern history. But feminists hate him because he is opposed to abortion rights. Bill
Clinton sexually harassed more women than any president in American history. But that's okay. He
supports abortion rights so feminists love him. If he were ever convicted of rape, feminists would
still love him because he supports abortion rights.
Part III wasn't that interesting, but then he wrote ...
Why I don't take
feminists seriously, Part IV. Feminists would rather solve a problem by changing "society"
than by changing their own behavior. ... Sociology professors often pursue the notion that beauty is not
objective but "socially constructed" by showing their students medieval paintings of nude, pudgy
women. The argument is that fat used to be considered attractive. Therefore, it can
be that way again with enough social engineering.
Why I don't take
feminists seriously, Part V. The four most common words a feminist uses are "I," "me,"
"my," and "mine." I really get tired of hearing these four words from feminists. "I feel
this" or "I feel that." "Keep your laws off MY body." "It's MY body, MY choice." Feminists
are the only people in society who actually use these four words more in adulthood than they did when they
were two years old.
Why I don't take
feminists seriously, Part VI. Feminists are the biggest censors on college campuses
today. … And they are always driven to censor those who do not take them seriously — just
to punish them for the crime of not taking them seriously.
Why
boys should be allowed to play with toy guns: Playing with toy weapons helps the
development of young boys, according to new Government advice to nurseries and playgroups.
Staff have been told they must resist their "natural instinct" to stop boys using pretend
weapons such as guns or light sabres in games with other toddlers.
Why Do Women Outnumber Men in College? The
highpoint of gender imbalance in college attendance was reached in 1947, after the return of men from World
War II then eligible for educational subsidies through the GI bills, when undergraduate men outnumbered
women 2.3 to 1. Women's relative numbers in college have increased ever since the 1950s, with
a pause when many men went to college to avoid serving in the Vietnam War.
Failing women of the Third
World. The plight of Islamic women abused in the name of Allah in the Middle East and in
Europe requires aggressive rebuke from women in the free world, but feminists in the West, and
particularly in the United States, are struck dumb in an academic ghetto, stuck with a parochial
approach to women's studies and obsessed with their personal "body rights" and their sexuality.
Women's minister
wants men purged from national anthem. In a move that spells trouble for half
of Europe's national anthems, Austria's Minister for Women's Affairs has demanded wholesale
changes to her country's paean to purge it of sexist references. Mentions of the "fatherland",
"great sons" and "brotherly choruses" should be replaced by gender-neutral terms such
as "homeland" and "joyful chorus", said Maria Rauch-Kallat, whose quest stands a fair
chance of success.
Strong
marriages, the Biblical way. The Bible clearly shows the error both of
feminists who claim no differences between men and women, and of sexual segregationists
who argue that women are to be concerned only with marriage and motherhood.
Frequently Asked
Questions about Women in Combat: Recent news reports about the
unprecedented roles of female soldiers serving in Iraq have generated many
inquiries about the issue of women in land combat. Should female soldiers
be assigned to units that engage in direct ground combat, and if not, why not?
Men
are too rough to train with, Army tells women. The [British] Army is abandoning mixed-sex
training units because too many female recruits are getting injured trying to keep up with their male
counterparts. … "Men are stronger and more robust and it's silly to pretend otherwise."
Five Lies the Church Tells
Women: I'm not saying all churches say all these things, but there are certain
pockets of Christianity where these lies are circulated.
All
dolled up and no place to go. Tragically, it seems that the place we carefully
chose to help teach our daughters important life lessons about sacrifice, selflessness and
friendship now promotes the "me first" mantra of selfish feminism. The [American Girl
doll] company has decided to donate money from the sale of its "I Can" bracelets to
Girls Inc., a group that promotes an agenda that sounds as if it was ripped from the
pages of Planned Parenthood.
Feminism's
devolution from hoaxers to whores. Men haven't turned away from smart, successful
women because they're smart and successful. More likely they've turned away because
the feminist movement that encouraged women to be smart and successful also encouraged them to be
hostile and demeaning to men.
Ladies Restrooms: Who is That
Male-Bodied Woman In the Next Stall? The New York Association of Gender Rights Advocacy has won a
victory over restroom use by individuals who believe they are a member of the opposite sex.
Editor's Note: Only
a few decades ago, such a person would have been confined to a mental institution for
everyone's benefit.
Hissy
fits and real progress: Susan Estrich is playing a dog-eared victim card
and in doing so reveals herself as well behind her curves. Three-fourths of
American women between 25 to 34 are in the workforce, up from half in 1975. A
report by the World Future Society finds that Generation Xers and their younger
counterparts in the millennial generation toil in a workplace that is all
but "gender-blind." Fully 57 percent of American college students are women.
So much for
compliments. America is supposed to be a land of self-reliant, hardy individualists
who cherish their freedom. But sexual harassment law treats women as so weak and vulnerable
that not only can they not handle rude and boorish insults, they can't even handle gallant
compliments.
One thing leads to another:
Is there a right
to have a baby? Reproductive freedom is usually a code-word for abortion on demand. But
the right to terminate a pregnancy is only the right to say "no" to having a baby. Full reproductive
freedom would include the right to pregnancy on demand, analogous to abortion on demand. A California
case in which a lesbian couple is suing an infertility clinic suggests we may be closer than we think to
establishing a right to have a baby. And far from being an advance for women's liberty, this
development would be a disaster for everyone's freedom.
Real
Women's Liberation: It's happening in Afghanistan, and U.S. feminists
don't care.
Lesbians
turn "gayelle". A group of lesbians who are unhappy with the title have launched a
world-wide movement to change the name of their sexuality to "gayelle". Websites devoted to
the change are springing up, with the motivation said to be a "persistent distaste for the word
lesbian."
The Editor says...
You can put a tuxedo on a pig, but it's still a pig.
Making
the Muslims love us. Feminists in the United States, eager to blame fundamentalist
Christians for everything, are reluctant to criticize fundamentalist Muslims for anything. But
a cursory scan of the Internet finds several sites beginning to expose the way Muslim men both here
and abroad get a politically correct pass in the name of multicultural tolerance. When all
cultures are considered equal, it's difficult to criticize culturally protected traditions, even
if those traditions brutalize women.
No
Thanks, Uncle Sam. If feminists truly cared about women succeeding rather than constructing
a social utopia, they would herald individual women who have genuine, free-market success stories
to tell. These women are not running to government for affirmative-action privilege because
they are too busy running companies.
The
feminization of society: As a result of the repudiation of Judeo-Christian
values, we are witnessing the ascendance of the feminine in Western society.
Amnesty International Promotes Violence By
Women. Congress is playing a fatal game with the lives of half of American citizens by pretending
that violence is purely a matter of sex. During a 10-day period, Saint Louis has recently seen two brutal
murders of husbands on one week, and a nearly-successful one. …There was no place for these men to seek
assistance because there are no shelters for men in Saint Louis.
Biased VAWA Discriminates
Against Men. The federal Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) is up for reauthorization
in 2005. VAWA funds billions of taxpayer dollars to combat violence against women, principally
domestic violence (DV). The definition of DV touted by victim advocates runs the gamut from
jokes and insults to murder, with "power and control" being the overriding characteristic of the
man's behavior towards the woman. Real violence is rarely at issue.
VAWA
Re-authorized. On Thursday, January 5, 2006, President Bush signed into law a
five-year, $3.9 billion extension of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA), originally
enacted in 1994 under President Clinton. VAWA is a particularly pernicious piece of
pork-barrel legislation that puts billions of dollars of taxpayer funds, and the imprimatur
of the federal government, in the service of the radical feminist ideology that all men and
boys are potential abusers who must be re-educated according to the dictates of the
nation's left-leaning "domestic violence" industry.
Double Standards: Lt.
Kara Hultgreen was killed in October 1994, while trying to land her F-14 Tomcat fighter plane. [Another]
woman pilot, Lt. Carey Lohrenz, was dismissed from further aviation training after her flying performance was
described by instructors as "unsafe, undisciplined, and unpredictable." The CMR's report is filled with
factual data on how the Navy leaned over backwards to accommodate the obvious shortcomings of women trainees.
The Demoralization of the
Military. Of the many painful consequences brought on by the surrender to political correctness,
the demoralization of the United States military is surely among the saddest. … The fear of this type of
disruption is one of the reasons military leaders fought so hard, in 1992, against approving openly acknowledged
homosexuals. But what the "gay" lobby lost, the feminists won. And we may all pay dearly for it
some day.
The Feminist Movement Can Destroy
Women, Family, Morality and Godliness. God presents Himself in Scripture as male. He wants
us to know Him in this way. He sent His Son (not daughter) to die for us. The intent of the
Feminists is obvious. They wish first to destroy gender difference in our human relations and then to
feminize the very nature of how God presents Himself to our sense.
Episcopal Church Officially
Promotes Idol Worship. "Women's Eucharist" calls for worship of pagan deities
specifically condemned in Scripture.
See more comments about this at Midwest Conservative
Journal.
The grand
fallacy. It is hardly surprising that women work part-time more often than
men, drop out of the labor force more often than men, specialize in a different mix of jobs,
and major in a different mix of subjects in college and postgraduate education. Seldom
are the data sufficiently detailed to permit comparisons of women and men who are the same
on all the variables that matter. But the more detailed the data, the higher is a
woman's income relative to that of a comparable man, sometimes surpassing that of men.
The
mommy party's tea party: Hillary gets to speak, after all, [at the Democratic
Convention] but only to introduce Bill. He basks in applause, she glows. Is this
the feminist dream, or what? The Democrats are the party of the radical feminists
but their women are sidelined together at the convention in Boston like a Beacon Hill tea for
the ladies auxiliary. Hillary, the most prominent of all, is relegated to "wife of,"
standing by her man.
Same-sex
marriage and the disposal of fatherhood: Single motherhood, despite the
heart-warming stories of virtuous single moms, is a predictor for children at higher risk
for teen pregnancy, sexually transmitted diseases, academic underachievement, drug use and
juvenile delinquency.
Feminist dream of military
equality becomes nightmare in Iraq. The picture of female U.S. Army Pfc. Lynndie R. England
holding a leash and collar around the neck of a prone and naked Iraqi male prisoner, like a dog, is a worldwide
public relations disaster.
Good news, bad news about
stay-at-home moms. When Time magazine runs a cover story called "The Case for Staying Home," and
Reuters reports that housework is good for women because it can help prevent ovarian cancer, you know the
feminists are on the run. Stay-at-home moms are coming back in style.
Day Dreamin' Anti-Dude Dames:
Because I am a man, my opinion regarding the role of women in society no longer counts. Not because I’m not
properly briefed regarding women's issues, but because I am a Christian, conservative, white male. Yes sir, I'm
the new millennium's latest whipping boy … the receptacle of all society's ills … the pariah of
postmodernism … the spawn of all societal sewage. At least according to the feministas.
Feminism on film: Panning
pompous propaganda. Another feminist propaganda movie hit the theaters during the Christmas season,
proving again that the feminists are an unhappy bunch whose lifestyle leads to loneliness.
Feminism mugged by reality:
The feminist revolution that swept the United States in the 1970s promoted the dream of a land in which at least half of all
corporate officers, Fortune 500 CEOs, partners in law firms and doctors would be women. But a funny thing happened on
the way to achieving that promise. Feminism was mugged by the reality that most women don't seek those goals.
Militant
Feminism: "Freedom for women cannot be without the abolition of marriage,"
wrote Sheila Craven, feminist author. This incredible statement was made by the National
Organization for Women in 1988: "The simple fact is, every woman must be willing to be
recognized as a lesbian to be fully feminine.
The Feminists Movement's Grand Deception:
The Guide To Feminist Organizations * details
the political agenda and funding support for the nation's top 35 feminist organizations. Author Kimberly Schuld
argues that most American women find these groups irrelevant to their concerns.
No man's
land: Even some liberals are unsettled by the contents of [Louise] Sloan's book. A
jaunty part-memoir, Knock Yourself Up — "a tell-all guide to becoming a single
mom" — is provocatively subtitled, No Man? No Problem! Alongside her own
experiences, she has interlaced the stories of more than 50 single mothers — most straight,
all "the new breed of single moms".
"Feminist Lies" Blamed for Fewer Guys on
Campus: A men's issues columnist says rampant anti-male feminism has made colleges a place where
many males feel unwanted and unwelcome.
All-Female Organizations
Demand Reform of All-Male Club: In case you have missed it, the National Council of Women's
Organizations, which its website says is composed of "more than one hundred women's organizations representing
more than 6 million members," is trying to force the Augusta National Golf Club, sponsor of the Masters
Golf Tournament, to "change its all-men's membership."
Criminalizing
Masculinity: If you are a heterosexual male of any race, tear yourself away from the war on
terrorism and let Howard S. Schwartz inform you of your real enemy. His book, "The Revolt of the
Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness," has just been released by Praeger
Publishers in Westport, Ct. The book is a bombshell. Schwartz, a professor of organizational
behavior, shows that feminism has metamorphosed from demands for gender equality into gender warfare
against masculinity.
Moms Can Be Deadbeats Too: Single
dads are sick and tired of being labeled "deadbeats" when it comes to paying child support. And data
suggest they have good reason to be upset. The percentage of "deadbeat" moms is actually higher than
that of dads who won't pay, even though mothers are more consistently awarded custody of children by
the courts.
No Thanks,
Uncle Sam: Until now, the framework for discussing women in the workplace has been set by
feminists – activists who will not be silent until 51 percent of every job classification
is filled by women. These same radicals are willing to wave aside the achievements of the individual
for the collectivist utopia of group success.
G.I. Joe is
No Great American Hero, Group Says: The Lion & Lamb Project says military action figures are
"aggressive toys." However, a Hasbro spokesperson says, "G.I. Joe has been a part of our culture
for nearly 40 years and represents core American values – patriotism, honor and bravery."
The
Feminine Mistake: The argument in favor of "equal pay for equal work" rests on a concept of labor
that was overturned in the 1870's. It assumes that there is such a thing as concrete human labor, a
physical entity that in some way can be measured. Value is in some way linked to labor, and pay should
reflect value. This was the economic premise of virtually all economists until the advent of modern
economics; Karl Marx was the last major economist to hold the labor theory of value. Modern economics
rests on the concept that value is linked to usefulness; the value of labor depends on the value of labor's
output. The distinction between the two concepts of value is crucial.
The
Liberation of Women: Thoughts on Reading Some Old Cookbooks. The
nineteenth century housewife had to be a Jill of all trades. The industrial
revolution with its increased specialization and division of labor barely ruffled
the surface of traditional housekeeping practices. The 1859 housewife purchased a
few more household items than her grandmother could have in 1832. But she
still had to kill her own fowl, cut up the family's meat, salt it, smoke it, or
otherwise cure it and keep it safe from bugs and animals.
Feminist
Censorship: The rhetoric that promotes injustice is always dangerous and
self-defeating, and we should have no more tolerance for reverse sexism
than for sexism itself.
Judge Halts an Army Policy on Promotion: A federal
judge struck down the Army's equal-opportunity promotion process yesterday [3/4/2002], saying the policy gives
undue preference to women and minorities at the expense of white, male officers. The Army's written
direction to promotion boards that urges them to consider the "past personal or institutional discrimination"
faced by women and minorities is unconstitutional because the policy does not order the board also to consider
possible discrimination against white men, the judge found.
Subjecting Boys to Feminist Propaganda and
Reprograming Them Through Gender Sensitivity: Beginning in 1995, the Clare Boothe Luce Policy
Institute began to expose this stealth feminist holiday that breeds victimology in girls and left boys behind
year after year.
Worsening Job Prospects for
White Males: White males are suffering from long-term deterioration in lifetime income growth
and job security, according to a study, "Divergent Paths," just released by the Russell Sage Foundation.
Feminizing the Black
Beret: The military under Clinton had aggressively promoted the "politically correct" belief
system, which says that despite the obvious physical and emotional differences, men and women are the same.
Feminist Movement Exploits Sports to Advance
Agenda: "Gender equity" groups and think tanks target professional and collegiate athletics.
Fatherhood
Group Studies TV's Portrayal of Male Figures
Islam vs Feminism:
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