An excerpt: This weekend millions of Americans will happily celebrate the role that fathers play in their families. For some families, though — specifically those in which dad’s role was not freely assumed, but legally mandated — Father’s Day can…
Month: June 2015
Who’s Lying, Who’s Self-Justifying? Origins of the He Said/She Said Gap in Sexual Allegations
The Woody Allen sex scandal of 2013 triggered a national conversation on who to believe, with people lining up on each side as if they knew what really happened. Based on recent research on how people navigate the often tricky waters of sexual negotiation, Dr. Carol Tavris shows that it is entirely possible in some sexual assault cases neither side is lying, but instead both sides feel justified in their positions. This talk was considered one of the best ever given at The Amazing Meeting.
What Makes a Woman?
The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly…
Better or worse?
Honest questions: Many thought things were going to get better for people who looked like the brown skinned man and his even browner skinned wife now live in the White House. Have things gotten better or is this more of…
Can she consent to sex after drinking?
Can a woman consent to sex when she’s been drinking? Universities have decided that the answer is no. “We heard that students don’t understand that it is illegal to have sex with someone who is drunk because they can’t…
Angel Soft and their horrible advertisement about celebrating mothers on Father’s Day
I certainly know ONE brand of products I refuse to buy. Angel Soft. You can forget it. Let me repeat a truth. A truth that people on the PC Express refuse to understand….Mothers can NEVER be fathers and fathers can…
As if teachers’ jobs aren’t hard enough, they’re asked to fix poverty, too
Big ideas in public education, such as the Obama administration’s Race to the Top and Teach For America, often say teachers could improve inequality. Dana Goldstein, author of The Teacher Wars, sat down with us to explain why this is magical thinking that’s been around since the 1800s.
For more on public education reform, Goldstein also contributed a feature to Vox on how Teach For America is starting to seriously reform after 20 years of criticism.
http://www.vox.com/2014/9/5/6079493/t…
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The disconnect between how we view child support laws and how they actually work
A study found that the views of much of the public differ from how child support laws actually work, with more focus on children’s welfare from the public. An excerpt from this article: http://m.deseretnews.com/article/print/865629856/Public-views-differ-from-how-child-support-laws-actually-work.html?ref=http%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com%3Fref%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fm.facebook.com The public views court-ordered formulas calculating child…
Black Like Rachel Dolezal
“The “I was born in the wrong body” rhetoric favored by other trans people doesn’t work any better and is just as offensive, reducing us to our collective breasts and vaginas. Imagine the reaction if a young white man suddenly…
Ex-New York Knick – Allan Houston – Makes Documentary About Fatherhood
Title IX, the All-Purpose Leftist Excuse because It allows persecution of anyone who contravenes feminist doctrine.
An Excerpt from this article: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/419344/title-ix-all-purpose-leftist-excuse-david-french If you are a dissenting professor or a male student in modern American higher education, there is a chance that you’ll be subjected to legal proceedings so bizarre, so opaque, and so unfair that you…
Why do high-profile campus rape stories keep falling apart?
An excerpt from this article in the Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-watch/wp/2015/06/02/why-do-high-profile-campus-rape-stories-keep-falling-apart/ At Slate, Emily Yoffe digs into the one of the poster cases for the anti-campus rape advocacy film “The Hunting Ground” and finds some devastating flaws in how the movie portrays…
