False Link Between Sex Industry and Rape

Andrea Dworkin claimed that sex industry encourages men to see women as sexual objects and as such leads to rape.She was very profoundly wrong.In reality, sex industry reduces rape. It allows men who otherwise would not be having sex a way to have sexual experience. And this...

Incest, Christianity and "Family values"

Pedophilia is easier to prosecute than incest, even though incest has been shown to be more damaging than pedophilia. Everyone is expected to hate someone who rapes other people's children; whereas fathers, uncles and brothers who commit incest are protected by the family and...

Feminism: Changing Direction

As in many other places, in America there is a separation between feminist women and all other women. The feminists have contempt for other women, seeing them as "breeders" and victims, whereas the other women see feminists as being mean-spirited and out of touch. There needs...

India's Gang Rape Protests: A Nation Maturing

The recent gang rape in India played the same role as did the beating of Rodney King in 1991. People have reacted with outrage to say that enough is enough. It is about time.40,000 women die each year in India from domestic violence. Hundreds of thousands of young girls...

If we betray Afghan women, the Taliban win

(CNN) -- Three prominent Afghan women will make it clear to a crowd of legislators on Capitol Hill Tuesday that a crucial measure of success in Afghanistan will be what women and girls can accomplish after U.S. troops leave. If a woman is free to vote and determine her own...

Final Gasps of GOP’s 40 Year Plus Southern Strategy - 1970-2012

On Tuesday evening, November 6, 2012, shortly after 11:00 PM, Eastern Standard Time, television networks were projecting the majority of the United States’ electorate had re-elected Barack Hussein Obama II to...

Political Correctness and Beautiful Women

One argument that I've heard from the practicioners of political correctness is that a beautiful woman can't also be a good human being. As far as these people are concerned, if someone is not beautiful then nobody else has the right to be beautiful, and someone being...

Spiral, Spirituality and Social Progress

The Spiral The Eastern worldviews tend to describe the world in cyclical terms. Life and death, creation and destruction, summer and winter, and time itself, are conceived in circular manner in which life repeats continuously. In the West, we see a linear worldview, in...

Domestic violence and sexual harrassment

When I was waiting for a bus at a Greyhound terminal in Hartford, Connecticut, a deaf older man hit on a young long-haired little guy. The little guy went off and started shouting about how he's going to get him in jail and how he's being harrassed and how the man is a...

Who really speaks for women?

In the politically correct culture, anyone who says that there are differences - any differences - between men and women is seen as a chauvenist or a misogynist. It is time that this be addressed.It is one thing to recognize that there are differences between men and women....

A Modest Proposal: Learn to Love Your Rapist

According to a new study by the CDC, 1 in 5 women have been raped in their lifetime. 80% of those women say they had been raped before the age of 25, with 1/3 of those women saying that they had been raped later...

Legitimate Feminism vs. Toxic Feminism

Feminism has taken different characters at different times in history, and some have been better than others. At this time I would like to draw a distinction between legitimate feminism and toxic feminism - popularly known as feminazism - and show the full extent as to how...

Personality disorders and domestic violence

The concept of the sociopathic personality disorder has been vastly misused. The sociopathic disorder refers, by itself, to people who are cold, ruthless and lacking in feeling. That's not  however how it has been used. Many of the usages of the disorder have been...

Islam and Human Rights

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.”         ...

Saudi women pressing for rights

'Saudi Women Revolution' makes a stand for equal rights By Catriona Davies, for CNN May 4, 2011 -- Updated 1604 GMT (0004 HKT) STORY HIGHLIGHTS * Women recently turned away from registering for municipal elections around Saudi Arabia * "Saudi Women Revolution" began...

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