This week’s column might come off as mawkish, but I’ll take that risk, as I want to revisit last week’s theme from a more personal angle. I’m writing this on what would’ve been my mom’s 91st birthday. And next week will be the seventh anniversary of her passing. So she’s very much on my mind. “Modern-day identity hustlers defile the memory of those who dealt with genuine discrimination.” As I’ve mentioned in previous columns, I come from a long line of Marxist Ashkenazi “revolutionaries.” Old-school ones, from Europe in the 1800s and NYC in the 1900s. Trade ...
It’s widely assumed today that, due to systemic sexism, women were so culturally oppressed until roughly last week that, of course, there were few famous women writers. In truth, however, women ...
"Karen" and "Becky" are two neologisms with opposite meanings for the enjoyable life. Here's your field guide. Karen: a person, often a white woman, who feels entitled to lecture perfect strangers ...
If you’re a woman whose entire identity is predicated upon feeling sorry for yourself, I have some good news—a recent UN report concludes that, despite all the “advances” ...
“[I]f thou live, remember’d not to be, Die single, and thine image dies with thee.” —Shakespeare On Wednesday, the liberal writer Caitlin Flanagan tweeted something about ...
I have no scientific evidence, no statistical data, that proves a decrease in beauty, just my own aging eyeballs that have been assessing the female form for decades. It’s sad ...
Last Wednesday, The New York Times published a long feature article called “Madonna at Sixty,” which, if the title didn’t telegraph its theme clearly enough for you, focused ...
During the State of the Union address on Tuesday, a group of female Democrats, dressed in all white (in tribute to the suffragettes of the early 20th century), sat looking quite ...
Observing groups of women, one can perceive that the maternal sex has a preternaturally acute awareness of others and concomitant sensitivity to their feelings. In many instances, ...
Women should use their beauty to get ahead, says sociologist Catherine Hakim, an advocate for the special value of “erotic capital.” The maverick Camille Paglia agrees. Like ...
Troubled by unequal outcomes between the sexes, progressive economists Kerwin Kofi Charles, Jonathan Guryan, and Jessica Pan act as if these were necessarily wrong, as opposed to ...
Phyllis Stewart Schlafly passed away on Monday after half a century of warning us about the dangers of feminism and I"m convinced she died of a broken heart. After discovering ...
To be clear: The ideal female mate is young. You"re going to want three kids, and to do that you really need to get going by 25. My wife had our first in her early 30s and at ...
On Wednesday, Republicans seized control of the Senate. What's more important, women regained control of reality. It's been a rough few decades for feminism. They began by ...
"I stand to win a great deal of money in a game show that will never be invented," Dick Cavett said somewhere, reflecting on his rare and unprofitable ability to ad-lib ...
British think tank Demos recently released a study titled MISOGYNY ON TWITTER. A five-person panel of researchers"tilted in favor of males by an unacceptably patriarchal 3-2 ...
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