Bookworm on Jun 16 2008 | Filed under: Barack Obama, Feminism, Hillary Clinton
Christopher Hitchens has written a post-mortem on the alleged sexism characterizing Hillary Clinton’s abortive race to the top. Aside from scathingly examining both Hillary’s and the media’s myriad failings, he has this wonderful point to make about the double-edged sword her gender became in the race:
Going as far as it dared on the point, [...]
Bookworm on May 11 2008 | Filed under: Arabs, Barack Obama, Feminism, Iraq, Islam, Muslim violence
The British press was rocked for a few minutes a couple of weeks ago by the story of an Iraqi girl whose father murdered her quite brutally because she’d fallen in love with a British soldier. (There was no hint, by the way, that she’d done anything about the love; it was an infatuation [...]
Bookworm on Mar 11 2008 | Filed under: Feminism, Sex
One of the things the feminists insist upon is absolute equality, whether that means depriving men of the opportunity to participate in college sports simply because there aren’t enough women to create parity, something that’s now being done in the sciences as well; or allowing women to engage in sexual activity as if they were [...]
Bookworm on Mar 04 2008 | Filed under: Crime and punishment, Education, Feminism, Women
If you haven’t already read Heather MacDonald’s debunking of the “Rape Epidemic” on college campuses, you must. The whole article is replete with gems such as this one:
The campus rape movement highlights the current condition of radical feminism, from its self-indulgent bathos to its embrace of ever more vulnerable female victimhood. But the movement [...]
Bookworm on Jan 21 2008 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Identity politics, Political correctness
Noemie Emery perfectly summarizes the nightmare the Dems have created for themselves:
Sometime back in the 1990s, when the culture wars were the only ones we thought we had going, a cartoon showed three coworkers viewing each other with narrowed and questioning eyes. “Those whites don’t know how to deal with a competent black man,” the [...]
Bookworm on Sep 26 2007 | Filed under: Children, Education, Feminism
Last month, when a Colorado school issued an edict banning tag because someone might get emotionally hurt, I did a long post about how I thought the long-term consequences of that decision were infinitely worse than the short term issue of kids having a playground conflict. In the last couple of paragraphs of that [...]
Bookworm on Sep 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Saudi Arabia, Women
Some Saudi women are bravely taking a stand and trying to overturn the prohibition against women drivers in that medieval theocracy:
For the first time ever, a group of women in the only country that bans female drivers have formed a committee to lobby for the right to get in the driver’s seat. They plan to [...]
Bookworm on Aug 21 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Media matters
Why am I ashamed? I’m ashamed because I didn’t even know that there was a radio talk show network directed at women. How in the world could I have missed that! And yet today I suddenly discover that, while I was blithely listening to Dennis Prager, Hugh Hewitt and Michael Medved, poor Jane Fonda (along [...]
Bookworm on Aug 13 2007 | Filed under: Children, Feminism, Women
I’m quite heterosexual, but I’ve dreamed for years of having a wife. Turns out I’m not the only one:
Now that women have solidly earned their place in the work force, many find themselves still yearning for something men often have: wives.
“The thing I most want in life is a wife. I’m not kidding,” said [...]
Bookworm on Jul 27 2007 | Filed under: Feminism, Media matters, Political correctness
I’ve been reading the New York Times’ movie reviews for decades now. I don’t know if they were always so politicized and laden with PC instruction, and I just didn’t notice, or if they’ve gotten more and more liberally pedantic with the passage of time. I do know, though, that today’s set [...]
Bookworm on Mar 28 2007 | Filed under: Britain, Christians, Congress, Feminism, Islam
The title of my post is reflective of what’s been going through my mind since I saw the Drudge headline announcing that the U.S. Senate, led by Democrats, has joined the surrender brigade. In what war in history, I ask you, has a country, with victory still more than possible, ever announced in advance [...]
Bookworm on Mar 17 2007 | Filed under: Feminism
Here’s the lady’s bio, which reads like a nightmare or a free spirit’s life, depending on your world view:
Left to her own devices by parents she thought were preoccupied with their careers, Rebecca Walker experimented with drugs, had sexual encounters with men and women, and had an abortion at 14.
But by the time she was [...]
Bookworm on Feb 06 2007 | Filed under: Culture, Education, Feminism, Sex
My son asked me how Valentine’s Day began. I explained that, a long time ago, there was a man named Valentine who was known for his kindness to young couples who wished to get married (and he may have given doweries to poor girls so they could marry). He was also a Christian [...]
Bookworm on Jan 30 2007 | Filed under: Feminism
The Museum of Modern Art hosted a symposium about feminist art. The story covering the symposium noted that the only time these feminist artists contemplated Islam they did so, not to discuss how their art could be used to help Islamic women break free from their invisibility and from the abuse heaped upon them, [...]
Bookworm on Dec 19 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
You are probably already familiar with the story about the huge increase in rapes in Norway, with 2/3 of them committed by “immigrants with a non-western background.” (And I wonder who those non-western immigrants might be?) I didn’t even bother to comment on it originally, because LGF had it covered. I’m commenting [...]
Bookworm on Dec 05 2006 | Filed under: Feminism, Political correctness
The Washington Post has picked up and expanded upon the story about Bonnie Bleskachek, the Minneapolis fire chief recently fired for all sorts of sexual and discriminatory shenanigans. It makes for fascinating reading if you don’t mind that your local fire house sounds like a lesbian Peyton Place with a dollop of man hatred [...]
Bookworm on Dec 04 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
I wrote “I am Woman, hear me whine” to riff off of a story about law firms’ difficulty in retaining black lawyers. I noted the role affirmative action has to play, but also suggested, based on my 20 years out of date experience at a big law firm, that women and minority attorneys might [...]
Bookworm on Nov 29 2006 | Filed under: African-Americans, Feminism, Law
There’s an article in today’s New York Times exposing (again) one of the problems with affirmative action — it elevates nice, ordinary people to situations where they’re bound to fail. This time the focus is on the nation’s top law firms, where African-Americans consistently fail to last:
Thanks to vigorous recruiting and pressure from corporate [...]
Bookworm on Oct 04 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
European feminist activists are apparently terribly upset that the European Court of Justice had the temerity to hold that it’s okay to pay people more for more time spent on the job, even if that affects women who take time off for children. The IWF, of course, has a good take on the story.
Sphere: [...]
Bookworm on Sep 19 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
In a slap in the face to Larry Summers (indeed, the New York Times includes many face slaps in its report), a special panel for the National Academy of Sciences has issued a report in which it says it’s entirely the fault of scientific institutions that there aren’t more women represented in science’s upper echelons:
The [...]
Bookworm on Aug 06 2006 | Filed under: Education, Feminism
I distinctly remember the laughs ordinary people had decades ago when a Harvard study for the then ridiculously high sum of $50,000 established that mother’s milk is good for babies. I had the same “duh” feeling when I read that a San Francisco neuropsychiatrist has written a book, based on cutting edge brain research, [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: Culture, Feminism, Hollywood
I don’t ordinarily read Time Magazine, since I decided years ago, even before my political transformation, that it held little interest for me. (Although I distinctly remember, in 1982, a “hip” young man I worked with castigating it as a conservative mag fit only for parents.) The only reason I even read it [...]
Bookworm on Aug 01 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
Over at the Independent Women’s Forum, they’ve had a series of amusing posts about the shenanigans at the NOW annual meeting. So much about the NOW worldview, but this particular loonines, which Allison Kasic reports, really caught my eye:
At the “I’m not a feminist, but…” workshop at the NOW conference I received an amusing little [...]
Bookworm on Jul 10 2006 | Filed under: Feminism, Religion
As I’ve noted before, feminism keeps reinventing religion in a feminized version. The latest example, courtesy of NPR, is the feminist rediscovery of the mikvah — the ritual bath Orthodox Jewish women take every month after their period before resuming sexual relations with their husbands. Here’s the feminist take on this ancient ritual:
“I always felt [...]
Bookworm on May 31 2006 | Filed under: Feminism
In the West, courtesy of modern birth control, when most of us have children, it's because we want them. They, after all, didn't ask to be born. To me, this means that we have obligations to them far beyond the material ones of food, shelter and clothing, and even beyond the less tangible one of [...]
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