Monthly Archives: April 2000

A Paternity Law In Need of Reform

Dennis Caron, 43, was recently sent to jail for refusing to pay child support (Child support activist jailed in Ohio for failing to pay alimony). Caron, in fact, has been withholding his child support since 1997 for what he thinks … Continue reading

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Stop Honor Killings

The other day I was reading a book by an academic feminist who argued, among other things, that the idea that there is a universal code of morality (i.e. there are just things that are plain wrong) is a white … Continue reading

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Are White Men the ‘root of all evil’?

It hasn’t really hit the national news scene, but for the past few weeks a dentist college at the University of Iowa, in Iowa City, has been a focal point of understandable racial fear and anger. Several weeks ago, somebody … Continue reading

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Glass Ceiling at MIT? Where’s the Data?

For the February-March 2000 issue of Heterodoxy, Kathryn Jean Lopez reports on the bizarre turn of events at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Here’s the short version: several female professors got together and wrote a petition demanding the school investigate … Continue reading

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Sweden may subject women to the draft

Yesterday the Christian Science Monitor reported (“Equality may mean Army service in Sweden“) that Sweden is considering extending its military draft to women. Israel is currently the only nation in the world that drafts women as well a men (although … Continue reading

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Violence Within Lesbian Couples

One of the recurring claims in much radical feminist literature is that violence is an inherently male problem, as opposed to a general human problem. The radical feminist critique of the family, for example, often simplistically postulates that it is … Continue reading

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Girls don’t ‘get’ computers? Give me a break

Wired is running an article (Why Girls Don’t Compute) on a new report by the American Association of University Women Educational Foundation which claims girls are being ghettoized by the current computer culture. The report, “Tech Savvy: Educating Girls in … Continue reading

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Andrea Dworkin: heterosexuality vs. bestiality and incest

Andrea Dworkin and her supporters claim she has been a victim of a smear campaign from opponents who distort and mischaracterize her claims about sex. The best way to get to the truth, of course, is go to the source … Continue reading

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Men are from Earth, Women are from Earth?: A Review of Cathy Young’s Ceasefire

Ceasefire: Why Women and Men Must Join Forces to Achieve True Equality By Cathy Young Amazon.Com price: $17.50 (click on link above to buy) At the end of the 20th century two versions of the same ages-old idea still dominate … Continue reading

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The Feminist Assault on Free Speech: A Review of Nadine Strossen’s Defending Pornography

Defending Pornography: Free Speech, Sex, and the Fight for Women’s Rights By Nadine Strossen Amazon.Com price: $11.96 (click on above link to purchase) If it weren’t for the feminist war on pornography, this web site probably wouldn’t exist. Several years … Continue reading

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