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Hari Sufficiently Condems 'The East, The West, and Sex'
This was a blistering review by Johann Hari of Richard Bernstein's book on how Euro-American sexual mores changed those of the Middle and Far East through the centuries — and vice-versa. '...Only a hundred or so pages in, the scent of testosterone and spent semen soaked into its pages becomes bewildering,' Hari writes in his second ...
Posted to Books by Ankhorite on June 30, 2009
Now I am no social scientist, but I play one on TV
Now I am no social scientist, and this argument may be riddled with empirical holes. But it strikes me as intuitively obvious that in order to succeed in a white man's world, women must learn to see both sides in ways that men do not. It is filled with empirical holes, and yet you forged ahead anyway in an unscientific manner. What other ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by philmon on June 12, 2009
Racism and Sexism
Notice: Pedancy Alert The terms racism and sexism are thrown around commonly here and elsewhere, sometimes in cases where they do not, at least in my opinion, actually apply. According to The American Heritage® Book of English Usage: The suffix -ism is a noun suffix. That is, when added to words or word roots, -ism forms nouns. It comes ...
Posted to Best of the Fray by a reasonable man on November 14, 2008
Re: Yes, just blame sexism
Although not a complete answer, but a definite dynamic in this election is America’s love-hate relationship to sex and the stereo-types that hide in the back of our brains. This can be seen in the Before Palin (B.P.) and After Palin (A.P.) variations of the poles. Although beautiful and handsome, some more so than others, no contender had ...
Posted to XX Factor by yard mom on October 13, 2008
Sexism?
Is that anything like Obama screaming Racism?
Posted to Politics by david wayne osedach on September 10, 2008
White Democrat racism, you mean.
While the author mentions only ''whites'' without mention of party affiliation, this article is dripping with contempt for McCain and therefore scapegoats some kind of Republican Party, Right-wing conspiracy to suppress a candidate of color. But voter rolls indicate there are more Democrats than Republicans (by no small margin), which means the ...
Posted to The Big Idea by JackSlate on August 23, 2008
Hitch On Helms like White on Rice
Gee Hitchens, why don't you and the Queen of England tell us how you really felt about that North Carolinian champion Senator Jesse Helms? I did not know him very well, living in the Midwest among Chicago Democrats and Suburban ''Collar County'' Repubs early in life, and then moving to New England, where both the Democrats and the Republicans have ...
Posted to Fighting Words by MichaelBernard1 on July 7, 2008
My Samoan Mother Does Not Need Affirmative Action
An AA surgeon, who got into medical school with lower aptitude, grades, test scores and abilities, should operate on my Samoan mother, even though there are better-qualified physicians! Besides your Native grandmother makes you a bigger victim than me with a Mexican (Aztec) mother, so you need AA more. However, I am especially needy, because my ...
Posted to XX Factor by Ralph7 on June 28, 2008
Excuse me?
''.... but most of the coverage treated this for what it was: an honest expression of emotion and gratitude and weariness from a major pubic figure who—we all thought—was 24 hours away from a bad defeat.'' I'm quite sure this was an unintentional typo on the part of Jeff Greenfield, but it was just too easy to point out! That said, I think ...
Posted to XX Factor Extra by Chenoa on June 18, 2008
ironic hypocrisy alert!
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Posted to Best of the Fray by Speaker Nancy on May 12, 2008

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