Monthly Archives: April 2002

No, Really — Old Women Are Not Witches

Comic Relief and the Department for International Development are funding an odd program in Tanzania — aid workers there are trying a number of approaches to convince people in north-west Tanzanian that old women are not witches. According to the … Continue reading

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Pakistani Women Sentenced to Stoning for Adultery Conviction

The BBC reports that a woman, Zafran Bibi, has been sentenced to be stoned to death after being convicted of adultery in Pakistan. Pakistan introduced the Islamic Sharia law in 1980. Several women have been sentenced to death for committing … Continue reading

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Sexual Equality Kills Off Women’s Literary Tradition in China

In China, a tradition of women’s writing that stretches back almost two centuries is on the verge of dying out. Thank goodness for progress. Nushu is a unique form of Chinese that uses symbols for sounds rather than for specific … Continue reading

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Feminists In Scotland Forced to Withdraw Domestic Violence Ad

Many European countries have boards that monitor advertising and occasionally force advertisers to rewrite or withdraw advertisements that these boards consider to be deceptive. In Scotland, Scottish Women’s Aid was forced to withdraw and rewrite an ad publicizing the threat … Continue reading

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Australian Researchers Find Persistent Female Stalkers as Dangerous as Persistent Male Stalkers

Australian researchers published a study in the American Journal of Psychiatry which found that female stalkers were just as predatory and dangerous as their male counterparts. The researchers looked at individuals at a mental health clinic who had stalked their … Continue reading

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Wendy McElroy vs. Extremists of All Stripes

This web site got its start over an eye opening look at radical feminism. My wife and I attended a symposium sponsored by campus feminists and we were shocked and not a little disgusted at the extremism combined with the … Continue reading

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Bonobos, Chimpanzees, and Maureen Dowd

In her endless quest to bring sexual politics into practically every discussion, the New York Time‘s Maureen Dowd recently blamed men for the fact that only 49 percent of female executives making more than $100,000 have children (compared to 10 … Continue reading

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Controversial Use of Fetal Murder Law in Michigan

In Michigan, prosecutors are pursuing what is bound to be an extremely controversial application of the state’s fetal murder law in the wake of a tragic automobile accident. The facts are this: On Jan. 3, 2001 Kara Hanford was 9 … Continue reading

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British Researcher Finds Men as Likely as Women to Be Victims of Domestic Violence

British professor John Archer of the University of Central Lancashire looked at 17 studies of domestic violence from the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom published over the last 20 years. He found that men were just … Continue reading

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Man in China Sues Wife for Having an Abortion

The BBC reports that in March a man in China became the first to file a lawsuit under a new law in that country that guarantees both men and women equal say in having children. As part of its extreme … Continue reading

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