The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

Why Is Sex Making Young People So Sad?

  “The vested interests of our age . . . have constructed a wonderful machine, which we shall call the Great Stereopticon. It is the function of this machine to project selected pictures of life in the hope that what is seen will be imitated. All of us of the West who are within the […]

No, @Clementine_Ford, Men Don’t Hate Women, But They Definitely Hate You

“Like most feminists, I have often been told that I hate men. I’m no longer interested in denying that claim.” — Clementine Ford, May 2015 Last year, it was reported that the birth rate in Australia had fallen to a 10-year low, and the discouraging demographic situation Down Under has merited the attention of the […]

It’s Come to This: Male Students Trained to ‘Be Accountable to Feminism’

It’s like the plot of a dystopian science fiction novel: Duke University is creating a “safe space” for male students to pore over the ways in which their “toxic masculinities” create a harmful environment on campus and beyond. The Men’s Project, which is sponsored by the Duke Women’s Center, aims to “create a space of […]

The Death of a ‘Dianic High Priestess’

“Wicca refers to the practice of European paganism popular throughout Europe and North America. . . . Dianic Wicca refers to a more radical women-only practice, named for the Goddess Diana. The novels of Marion Zimmer Bradley have been influential for Dianic Wiccans . . .” — Meredith Miller, “Dianic Wicca,” in Historical Dictionary of […]

Blame the Patriarchy!

The core myth of feminism is that women — yes, all women — are victims of oppression under patriarchy, an unjust and tyrannical system in which all men participate and from which all men benefit. This claim of patriarchal oppression is used to justify the anti-male agenda of feminists who insist that every male is to blame for […]

Campus Insanity: Why Does Claremont Need a ‘Queer Resource Center’?

  In a review of protests last year on the campus of the Claremont Colleges (which include Scripps, Pomona, Pitzer, Harvey Mudd and Claremont McKenna), I was intrigued by something in this story: “We need to be less afraid of being called racists, classists, and ableists, and more afraid of actually being those things,” lamented […]

No, Miss Universe Can’t Be 170 Pounds

  It should not be necessary to explain why a beauty queen is obliged to maintain her physique at or near her pageant-winning form during her yearlong tenure as the reigning Miss Whatever. She wins a local beauty contest, which qualifies her to compete at higher levels, on up to a national title and, perhaps, […]

Ask @HannahSmothers_: Is Cosmo Now a Lesbian Feminist Magazine?

As LGBTQ Culture Becomes More Mainstream, Queer Women Struggle to Find a Place of Their Own That’s the headline on an article published last month by Cosmopolitan magazine’s “sex and relationships editor,” Hannah Smothers. The Cosmo website features so much “LGBTQ” content nowadays that one wonders if the magazine has been taken over by lesbian […]

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