Monthly Archives: May 2001

Wendy McElroy on Rape Statistics

Wendy McElroy recently wrote an excellent summary of the methodological and philosophical problems with the commonly repeated claim that 1 in 4 college women have been the victims of rape and/or attempted rape. Most disturbing is what McElroy calls the … Continue reading

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Woman Files Suit Against Shelter

Nev Moore, president of Justice For Families, has filed a lawsuit against a Massachusetts battered women’s shelter, Independence House, arguing that their apparent close cooperation with the Massachusetts’ Department of Social Services violated her civil rights. Moore’s case is a … Continue reading

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More Taliban Atrocities

This month in an Afghanistan sports stadium crowded with thousands of people, soldiers with the hardline Muslim Taliban movement carried out a criminal sentence — they gave a young man and woman accused of having premarital sex 100 lashes. The … Continue reading

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Feminists and Free Speech

Writing in National Review, the Hudson Institute’s Stanley Kurtz does a good job of puncturing the anti-free speech views held by many radical feminists, which are now on full display in the controversy over the Independent Women’s Forum newspaper ad. … Continue reading

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Independent Women’s Forum Ad, Part II

Yesterday I wrote about the provocative newspaper that the Independent Women’s Forum has been running in some campus newspapers. In April the University of Califronia-Los Angeles student newspaper, the Daily Bruin ran the ad. In May, two UCLA campus groups … Continue reading

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Independent Women’s Forum Runs Provocative Ads in College Newspapers

The Independent Women’s Forum has recently begun running a provocative ad attacking campus feminism and women’s studies departments. The text of the ad debunks what the IWF calls “The Ten Most Common Feminist Myths.” These myths include: One in four … Continue reading

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Responsible Fatherhood Programs? Thanks, But No Thanks

I feel the same way about fatherhood as I do about abortion — I don’t care what you do in private, just don’t make me subsidize it. But along comes a bipartisan coalition of Democrats and Republicans who think the … Continue reading

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Lebanon Hosts Conference On Honor Killings

Lebanon recently held a two-day conference to explore the problem of so-called honor killings in that country. In an honor killing a woman who has allegedly disgraced her family’s honor is killed by her husband or other close male relative. … Continue reading

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United Nations Highlights Problems of Child Marriage

In March the United Nations Children’s Fund released a report highlighting the continuing worldwide problem of childhood marriage of girls. Childhood marriage is an especially acute problem in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. An extreme case is a country such … Continue reading

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Age of Puberty Has Not Declined Substantially

A handful of small studies had suggested that the age at which girls enter puberty had been declining dramatically. This led to an explosion in possible explanations, from environmentalists who blamed it on manmade chemicals to some feminists who blamed … Continue reading

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