Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Walter E Williams: Legal And Academic Equality Nonsense
Disproportionality is not inequality. A particular act or policy might not have a discriminatory intent, but that doesn't let you off the hook. If it has a disproportionately negative impact on so-called protected classes, it is said to have a disparate impact and risks being prohibited by law. The uninformed assumption made by judges, lawyers and ... MOREThomas Sowell: Micro-totalitarianism
Small people have small ways. The political left has come up with a new buzzword: "micro-aggression." Professors at the University of California at Berkeley have been officially warned against saying such things as "America is the land of opportunity." Why? Because this is considered to be an act of "micro-aggression" against minorities ... MOREEdward Cline: The Prancing Unicorn Of Bruce Jenner
He (XY chromosome) is what he is. No matter where I turned on the Internet today, I encountered the Vanity Fair cover of Bruce Jenner pretending to be a woman. I got so sick of encountering that cover that I decided to write about it. Transgenders, apparently, are the new privileged minority. Just as Muslims are. A Muslim baker or ... MOREKatherine Mangu-Ward: Why Don't Women Like Rand Paul?
A bad job of marketing liberty to women? Today at The New Republic, Jeet Heer asks why libertarians are mostly dudes,
inspired by Sen. Rand Paul's polling gender gap, which shows the
Kentucky Republitarian pulling 13 percent of the male primary vote and
only 2 percent of females: Why is Paul so unpopular among women? ... MORE
Calling Bruce Jenner A Woman Is An Insult To Women
by Matt Walsh. It is what it is. The picture is plastered right on the cover of the next Vanity Fair issue, and it shows Bruce dolled up in makeup and hair extensions, posing in a corset, with parts of his face, forehead, and throat shaved off for cosmetic reasons, and his chest enhanced by hormone pills, Photoshop, and silicone. The idea is to make ... MOREWalter E Williams: Liberals Respect Me
Treated like a white man. During the early years of the Reagan administration, a Washington news conference was held for me for my first book, "The State Against Blacks." Before making summary statements about the book, I offered the reporters assembled that they could treat me like a white person. They could ask me hard, pressing questions. ... MOREJeremy Egerer: Should Women Be Allowed To Drink?
A sobering thought. In an age of social liberalism, you can expect to see many things become legal. One thing that hasn't become legal and that almost nobody has considered legalizing is childhood drinking. And the reason nobody has really suggested it is because each and every one of us knows that children are idiots. You never really know what ... MOREWalter E Williams: Some Odds And Ends
Wise observations. Occasionally, I wonder whether I'm alone in some of my wonderings. Look at the claim that conservatives or Republicans have launched a war on women as a part of their overall mean-spirited agenda. In the case of mistreatment of women — or of anyone else — assault, rape and murder are about as horrible as it gets. ... MOREBrendan O'Neill: Meet The Vagina Voters
Voting for Hillary because she's a woman. "I intend to vote with my vagina." Have you ever read a more squirm-inducing sentence than that? It appeared in a pro-Hillary piece in Dame magazine, written by a person with a vagina who intends to vote for Clinton because she also has a vagina. Let's leave aside the unfortunate image conjured up by ... MORESpecial Operations Troops Doubt Women Can Do The Job
by Lolita C. Baldor. Expect lower standards to come. Surveys find that men in U.S. special operations forces do not believe women can meet the physical and mental demands of their commando jobs, and they fear the Pentagon will lower standards to integrate women into their elite units, according to interviews and documents. Studies that surveyed ... MOREJohn Stossel - Raping Culture
Another one of those social "epidemics." Apparently, new laws are needed because at colleges, sexual assault is "epidemic." Rape is so common that there is a "rape culture." I hear that a lot. It is utter exaggeration. Fortunately, AEI scholar Christina Hoff Sommers is around to reveal the truth. "This idea of a rape culture was built on ... MOREThomas Sowell: The Honesty Gap
Looking at the war on women. There may be some poetic justice in the recent revelation that
Hillary Clinton, who has made big noises about a "pay gap" between women
and men, paid the women on her Senate staff just 72 percent of what she
paid the men. The Obama White House staff likewise has a pay gap
between women and men, as of course ... MOREFemale Marines Now 0-26 On Officer Infantry Course
by Douglas Ernst. Obviously, a sexist test.The failure of two Marine Corps officers to to pass the Jan. 8 first-day Combat Endurance Test of the infantry officer course brings the tally of female dropouts to 26. One more group of female officers will have a shot at graduation before the Marine Corps completes its integration experiment in June. ... MOREThe Year The Crusade Against 'Rape Culture' Stumbled
by Cathy Young. December has not been a good month for the feminist crusade against the "rape culture." The Rolling Stone account of a horrific fraternity gang rape at the University of Virginia, which many advocates saw as a possible "tipping point"—a shocking wake-up call demonstrating that even the most brutal sexual assaults on ... MORE
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