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Monthly Archives: August 2000
The Anti-Urinal Crowd
I’m simply speechless after reading this account in a recent column by John Leo, You can’t make this up: Now sit, Ingvar, sit. Young women in Sweden, Germany, and Australia have a new cause: They want men to sit down … Continue reading
Turkey’s Wife Beating Manual
The BBC recently reported on a controversy over a state-run religious foundation in Turkey which published a booklet that advises men on the proper way to beat their wives. The BBC reported that, The booklet, published by the Poius Foundation, … Continue reading
Bias in Schools
John Leo wrote an op-ed piece a few weeks ago (Anti-male bias increasingly pervades our culture) claiming that increasingly there is an anti-male bias present in popular culture. He repeats a couple of well-known incidents, most notably the brief controversy … Continue reading
‘Maybe He Was Just Trying to Scare Her’?
A woman in Florida is alive today because her father had the foresight to buy her a gun for personal protection. Twenty-eight year old Maria Pittaras awoke to find her neighbor, Robert Metz, wearing a mask and holding a knife … Continue reading
Infant Dies After Genital Mutilation Procedure In Niger
Reuters news services reported earlier in the month that a 23-day old girl bled to death in Niger after a her clitoris and part of her vagina were removed by a traditional healer as part of a female genital mutilation … Continue reading
Mexico’s Guanajuato Bans Abortion for Rape Cases
Just a few weeks after National Action Party (PAN) candidate Vincente Fox stunned Mexican politics by unseating the PRI party in presidential elections, PAN legislators in the state of Guanajuato raised long-standing concerns about the party by voting to ban … Continue reading
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Who Says Women Are Afraid of Computers?
Over the past couple months there have been numerous stories about how women are intimidated from using computers and related technologies. Studies, almost always based on anecdotes, attempting to show the web and Internet industries are still all-male bastions are … Continue reading
Why Are Men More Likely than Women to Support Abortion Rights?
Chris Weinkopf, in an article (Leaving No Child Behind)originally written for the Los Angeles Daily News and reprinted at FrontpageMag.Com, thinks George W. Bush is making a mistake by not emphasizing abortion as a campaign issue. Bush might be afraid … Continue reading
The “Good Rape”: The Vagina Monologues Returns
Even if I tried, I don’t think I could write a parody of the contemporary feminist movement that accomplished half of what The Vagina Monologues did last year. For those of you who haven’t yet heard of this play, the … Continue reading
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Tagged Eve Ensler, Planned Parenthood, Wendy McElroy
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Australia Prime Minster Wants to Ban In Vitro Fertlization for Single Women
Some states in Australia have laws making it illegal for women to get pregnant via in vitro procedures. One woman challenged Victoria’s anti-in vitro law as unconstitutional, and an Australian Court agreed with her saying the ban violated Australia’s Sex … Continue reading