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At a Glance : A Practical Guide to Children's Special Needs Paperback
by Viv East, L. Evans
What exactly is Tourette's Syndrome? What is SENDA? I have an autistic child in my class next year - help!
Everyone working with children should be aware of different special needs and how they can impact on learning.
There is no shortage of information out there - but there is a shortage of time in which to research and read up on what teachers need to know!
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- Publication Date: 05/10/2006
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Vanessa Feltz: Just how nice do you think you are really?
ISN'T our capacity for self delusion comforting?
Goldsmiths University shows 98 per cent of British people consider themselves to be among the nicest
After all, if we looked our flaws squarely in the face we would dive beneath the duvet in shame.
We present ourselves to ourselves edited and re-lit selfie-style.
We shine the kindest and most flattering light on our sins and peccadilloes.
We have a knack for ironing out our shameful, selfish, licentious, slothful, lazy, venial blips and believe deep down we are delectable combinations of Mother Teresa and St Francis of Assisi.
It is no surprise that a study by psychologists at Goldsmiths University shows 98 per cent of British people consider themselves to be among the nicest 50 per cent of the population.
Hilariously researchers showed those self-proclaimed charmers footage of bawling babies, yowling car alarms and a man spilling sticky liqueur on his pristine cream carpet while a camera captured the "micro-expressions" passing over their faces.
Unwittingly these paragons displayed a host of less than compassionate reactions, foremost among them fear, surprise and disgust.
Should we be embarrassed by our staunch belief that we are immune from the failings and frailties of others?
Hilariously researchers showed those self-proclaimed charmers footage of bawling babies
We shine the kindest and most flattering light on our sins and peccadilloes
Ought we to be brutally honest with ourselves? The answer of course is both yes and no.
Donning a pair of blinkers is ridiculous. Concocting a raft of excuses, half-truths and exemptions which enable us to skive at work, ignore elderly relatives, fudge the recycling, park across our neighbour's drive and take or make the odd payment in cash if we think no one's looking achieves little except to enable us to function as the most uncongenial versions of ourselves.
On the other hand a hefty dollop of self-loathing is death to ambition, harmful to the spirit, submerges the imagination and renders us almost comatose with indecision, trepidation and an unhealthy conviction that we are doomed to make a spectacular pig's ear of everything we dare attempt.
We shine the kindest and most flattering light on our sins and peccadilloe
How the heck do we achieve a workable balance between maintaining our self-esteem and diving into a chasm of denial?
If you have heard the meanest person you know holding forth about his generosity or the vainest chap in the office attesting his utter ambivalence towards superficial appearance, you will know it is a tough ask.
I suppose it works like this: if you do believe you are a kind person don't just sit back and wallow in self-congratulation.
Test yourself as you would test others. Do a bit of an audit.
Write down the last time you did a good deed, had a kind thought, supported a charity or said a compassionate word.
If your list is short do something about it.
Hating yourself is counterproductive but thinking you are an absolute humdinger of a human being is not much use to man nor beast either.
Women who undergo failed IVF are a fifth more likely to suffer heart disease.
If we needed proof that the net effect of grief, longing and disappointment is a broken heart, we should look no further.
Call The Midwife will be missed
Oh my goodness, how did we besotted fans survive the unashamedly epic series finale of Call The Midwife?
TS Eliot summed up life as "birth and copulation and death" and the programme featured all of the above with the menopause, contraception, dress-making nightmares, divorce, lesbianism, a carousel and a wedding into the bargain.
So sensitive is the writing we don't feel we are being preached at even when Jenny Agutter's saintly Sister Julienne is sermonising.
I admit to having to cover my eyes at least twice per episode, even as a mother of two and birthing partner at the nativity of nephew, niece and grandbaby.
Occasionally, if I prerecord the show I fast forward the agonisingly sad stories to get to Sister Monica Joan and the cake tin just a little more quickly.
Yet I remain in thrall to the beautifully etched characters and the way the series drags us into the Swinging Sixties.
How will we endure the wait till Christmas?
Call The Midwife will see an epic series finale
Pollution is killing off our gentle wildflowers
Survival of the fittest is to many an appealing concept.
How dispiriting therefore to find in what should be the fragrant, delicate sylvan area of wild flowers, fittest does not mean fairest.
Pollution is proving deadly to our delicate wild flowers.
Pollution is killing off our gentle wildflowers
The azure blue harebell, golden bird's-foot trefoil and even the complex dappled orchid are under threat as nitrogen belched by diesel cars and industry engulfs them.
Doing very nicely thank you are the super-thugs nettles, hemlock and hogweed which flourish in nitrogen-rich soil.
Remember the Flower Fairies, painted so exquisitely by Cicely M Barker?
Isn't it painful to think many wildflowers now face extinction?
Pollution is proving deadly to our delicate wild flowers
Other Half dresses up for Relief
I might not have taken kindly to the sight of my Other Half prancing about in size 14 stilettos had he not been doing so for Comic Relief.
You might well have seen him on Saturday night as part of Boys Allowed punching home the track Biology alongside Duncan James, Ritchie Neville, Gareth Gates and Jon Lee.
Despite their sinuous gyrations the boys were pipped to the post by the Casualty/Holby City group and a cavalcade of Bradley Walsh's chasers.
I could do without further exposure to the chaps in bustiers but if the clamour on social media's anything to go by I'm not the only one who would love to see the five giving it their music all in gentlemen's clothing.
Individually they are gems, together they are dynamite.
Joni Sledge, one of the singing sisters who first rocked the world with their music in 1979, has died at the age of 60.
She and her siblings packed dance floors with their unforgettable We Are Family the uplifting lyrics of which continue to resonate with women nearly 40 years later.
The lasting power of, "I got all my sisters with me" transcended the literal fact that Joni was performing with her flesh and blood sisters.
The song soared to become an emblematic anthem for the entire sisterhood which can, in the best of all possible universes, embrace all women everywhere.
Joni Sledge, one of the singing sisters who first rocked the world with their music in 1979
Nasty habit smoked out
Coming towards us across a busy London road were a couple puffing vigorously on their cigarettes.
Said Daughter the Younger: "Isn't it weird to see people smoking in the street like that? It's as if they didn't get the memo."
The anti-cigarette message has permeated so thoroughly she can barely believe anyone would inhale the dreaded weed.
The UK now has the lowest number of smokers since records began.
Public health educators, doctors and campaigners should bask in their richly deserved – and life-saving – success.

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BRISTOL, VA (WJHL) The century-old Virginia Intermont College abruptly closed its doors in 2014.
We have been following this story for two years now and found out the progress of a deal that could bring V.I.'s campus back to life, and paychecks to its former employees.
Without much warning to students and staff, VI closed its doors in 2014 after financial troubles, a failed merger, and the loss of accreditation. Since then it's sat vacant.
"It's a great location, it's right there just north of downtown so in some ways it's a gateway to downtown and it has a tremendous impact on that surrounding neighborhood," Bristol, VA Mayor Bill Hartley said.
But the property, with its 30-plus acres and more than a dozen buildings, still hasn't sold.
And it's not just about the property, a former V.I. employee told us he still hasn't been paid for his last few months at the school, and he's not the only one.
The last time V.I.'s interim president spoke with us back in late 2014, he said those employees will have to wait for the school to sell before they are paid.
Now, city leaders say Southwest Virginia-based Bluefield College is making strides to open a campus at the former V.I. site.
"This is the first that I've seen rise up to this level to have that kind of proposal," Hartley said about the progress.
Bluefield is seeking $4.5 million over nine years from the economic development fund of BVU Authority to open the campus.
The setback, this request comes right as BVU has put a freeze on accepting applications after a state-mandated audit found several issues with how the utility handed out the money in the past.
CEO Don Bowman said BVU is creating a new, detailed application process and policy.
"Hopefully it won't be past the new year by much before we start taking applications. We really want to work on a communication plan, an outreach plan so that there's business or industry currently located here that can benefit from the program or people interested in relocation here that that program will be available to them." Bowman said.
If Bluefield is able to secure the funds and open a campus, city leaders say it plans to focus on science, technology, math, and engineering.
"To have a school like that it brings in professors, people highly educated people that make above average wages to work in the community, it brings a way to train students for jobs and when manufactures and industries are looking here you can point to we have a facility in our community to help train the workforce that you need for your business," Hartley said.
After Bluefield presented its plan to the Bristol, VA Industrial Development Authority, the IDA recommended the project to the Bristol, VA City Council. The city council tabled the decision until the college could apply for the funds with BVU, according to Hartley.
Bart Poe, Interim Director of Economic Development and Community Development for Bristol, VA said right now Bluefield is the only name in the running to buy this property.
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Maybe it's because the food doesn't move... and you have to draw it FAST so you can eat it while warm :) I had fun drawing a pita roll before finishing dinner tonight :) I'll have to post it.
I have really enjoyed your sketches of daily food. You have a great style, and it sounds like you are having fun with this project!


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A missing tooth eventually spells oral disaster, meaning permanent changes to your bite. Because the mouth is dynamic, teeth on either side of an empty space will shift. The teeth next to them move, too. With all this movement, periodontal disease could invade soft tissues. Jaw misalignment, and the pain that goes with it, is likely. So tooth restoration to bolster neighboring teeth and keep the "architecture" of the mouth in good shape is the best course of treatment.
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The ECHL and its member teams mourn the loss and express their condolences to the family and friends of former Peoria Rivermen owner Bruce Saurs, who passed away Thursday morning in Peoria at the age of 88.
Saurs purchased the Rivermen in 1989 while they were members of the International Hockey League. During the 1990-91 season, Peoria won 18 consecutive games, setting a professional hockey record, and went on to win the IHL's Turner Cup championship.
The Rivermen joined the ECHL as an expansion team in 1996-97, and captured a Kelly Cup title in 2000. During their nine seasons in the ECHL, the Rivermen won three division titles, advanced to the postseason eight times and posted a .658 regular-season winning percentage, which ranks second all-time in League history.
Saurs was inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame in 1995. He was also inducted into the Rivermen Hall of Fame in 1999 and the Bradley University Athletics Hall of Fame in 2005.
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Gear Review: 6 Favorite Hiking Daypacks
By Michael Lanza
What do you need a daypack for? That's really the critical question to consider when choosing from the dozens of widely varying choices out there today, which range all over the map in terms of volume, weight, carrying capacity, features—and cost. Some are very specialized, others built as all-purpose dayhiking sacks, but still designed with an eye toward making them stand out from a crowded field.
I've picked out six favorite daypacks I've tested and reviewed at The Big Outside—all different enough from one another to offer you clear choices. And right now, you'll find some of them at greatly reduced sale prices this weekend. Continue reading →
Gear Review: Osprey Talon 22 and Tempest 20 Daypacks
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Daypacks are a little like flavors of ice cream—there's something for everyone's taste, and they vary so greatly that you can get to feel like one isn't nearly enough. So how do you find the right model when you want a quiver of one daypack for all purposes? In pursuit of the answer to that enduring philosophical conundrum, I carried Osprey's Talon 22 on a dayhike to the highest point in California's Death Valley National Park, 11,049-foot Telescope Peak, and on dayhikes during a family trip to Costa Rica, including the crazily steep and rugged peak Cerro Chato. Continue reading →


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There wasn't a Hugh Jackman song 'n dance or Billy Crystal cracking wise about the nominees, but Wednesday's announcement of the men's Olympic hockey team was still boffo entertainment by hockey standards. After months of general manager Steve Yzerman wandering the hockey landscape like Banquo's ghost, the 23 men who'll wear the Haida maple leaf in Vancouver were finally revealed to a waiting nation in a one-hour special from Saskatoon. And yes, Virginia, there were some mild surprises amongst the players attempting to win just the second Olympic gold medal in 58 years.
Broadcast live in front of an enthusiastic throng at the World Junior tournament, the crew from TSN/ Sportsnet crew certainly was four lines deep. Host Brian Williams threw to anchor James Duthie who threw to co-anchor Daren Millard who threw to panel moderator Dave Hodge who threw to Hockey Canada's Andre Brin, who threw to Bob Nicholson who threw to Steve Yzerman who... let's just say the only guy in the room who didn't speak by ceremony's end was the janitor.
After the roll call of suits (could they not have found someone other than Andre Brin to speak French in the opening salvo?) Yzerman and his band of headhunters got around to their long-awaited picks. The surprises? Calgary's three defence contenders were all told to take a holiday while Patrice Bergeron of Boston got a mildly surprising "come on down!". (No one we heard wanted to address whether Bergeron's selection was to placate the usual Quebec nationalists who otherwise would have had just the three goalie to brag on.) Which didn't mean that the media savants who'd been predicting other lineup permutations for months were taken aback. No matter how wayward their own predictions (Usual Suspects had Doughty out and Martin St. Louis in), the TV and print guys had easy explanations for why Jay Bouwmeester or Dion Phaneuf was out and Brenden Morrow was in. If the Canadian hockey players show the lateral movement the media demonstrated in the wake of Wednesday's announcement then Canada will be just fine, thank you.
"Fit" was the sticky word of the day in describing why one media guy's lock-solid pick failed to make the final roster. TSN's Bob McKenzie said players such as Jarome Iginla could fit into a physical other than scorer. Morrow fit as a player who could handle the penalty kill. Brad Richards fit the category of player with championship rings who could win a key draw. There was more fitting than Harry Rosen's tailor shop.
With the mild shock of Doughty in/ Bouwmeester out dissected beyond recognition, players selected to the team were trotted out to say things about pressure that, in two months, they'll admit was so much applesauce. Roberto Luongo said no, he didn't think Vancouver's brutal 17 games in the five days before the Games would tire him out. Steve Yzerman said he's take his team over any other in the world. And Pierre McGuire said Doughty was a tremendous player (Come to think of it, Pierre said they were all tremendous players).
Perhaps it's a bit much much to expect a modest Canadian to emulate Sweden's Mikael Samuelsson, who dropped an f-bomb on his country's national program for not picking him for Vancouver. But it might have broken the monotony if someone stepped up to say that Bouwmeester or Vinny Lecavalier wuz robbed. Then again, Team Canada is hoping to minimize the shocks all the way to a gold medal. If smooth and steady wins the race to gold, then the TSN/ Sportsnet show was a calm, measured start.
********************************************* Clean Up Squad: Is it just Usual Suspects, or has the World Juniors gotten very truculent (to use a Burkeism)? Dirty might be another word for the nonsense. Whether it's Canadian captain Patrice Cormier with cheap-shot elbows, Nazim Kadri with the throat-slash gesture or the Russians and Finns channeling their inner Slap Shot with head shots and boarding, isn't it time the IIHF cracked down with a suspension? Judging by the silence of the concerned parties, one would think this is what they want the teenagers doing for the TV cameras.
********************************************** Should Auld Acquaintance: We've described before how TSN and the World Juniors have become interchangeable. The same is now being said about NBC and the Winter Classic-- to be played Friday at Fenway Park in Boston (in case you've been in Tuvalu since Labour Day). With its pre-nup to Comcast in the vault, NBC wants to appear a player against the ESPNs-- especially on a day when the other networks are rolling out football bowl games. Trotting out Bob Costas at the Fens on New Years Day against Bowl mania sends a message that the Peacock network could be a player again.
Which makes the NHL sorta' cool in network terms. Getting any U.S. network love is, of course, Gary Bettman's idea of rapture. Which is why the architect of the NHL's "southern strategy" now wants to cover the NHL landscape with a second winter classic in Canada and assorted other TV attractions for his NBC partners. An Olympics in Russia? Let's not get ahead of ourselves...
******************************************************** Coach Service: It doesn't pay to mess with ESPN. Just ask Texas Tech football coach Mike Leach. He was suspended by the school from coaching in the Alamo Bowl against Georgia on Monday. In early reports, Leach was alleged to have improperly disciplined a player. With a little digging it turned out that the player Leach reportedly locked in a closet for three hours was Adam Leach, son of ESPN analyst Craig James. Who was-- zounds-- supposed to work the Alamo Bowl for ESPN. Faster than you can say conflict-of-interest, James recused himself from doing the Alamo Bowl. And Leach-- who was a national hero this time last year-- was fired a day later.
******************************************** Once in a while we withhold the news in our business. Some times it's improper; other times it's done because some news isn't really news at all. A while back we told you that Jim Kelley had left Sportsnet for personal reasons. At the time we knew Kelley had been diagnosed with cancer. He asked that we not publish the full nature of his illness. He didn't want people reading him for any reason other than the copy he produced. His was not a pity parade.
Out of respect for Kelley, a member of the writers' wing of hockey's Hall of Fame, we opted to use "personal reasons" to describe why he departed Sportsnet. Others, however, chose not to respect that confidence, and so Kelley has outed himself-- and denounced the "friendly" reasons his condition was disclosed. "That was a sham; the obvious intent of the mention was to point out that he was the first to write that I wouldn't be appearing on the Fan 590 for awhile, and that he had it first," Kelley wrote on his blog. "In my mind... the fact that someone outed me as being sick simply doesn't matter. I for one will not speak of the matter again. You'll get my best, and we'll move on from there."
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A STUNNING new monument is set to honour Blackpool's heroes of the emergency services.
Poignantly, it will overlook the seafront location where three police officers drowned while bravely trying to save the life of a holidaymaker in 1983.
After four years of fund-raising, plans have now been submitted to Blackpool Council seeking permission for the four six foot high figures representing the police, fire brigade, ambulance service and coastguard to be placed in the sunken gardens at Gynn Square.
It is believed to be the first memorial of its kind in the country honouring all four 999 services.
More than £30,000 has been raised to pay for the sculpture and it is hoped the moving tribute, set on an elevated platform, will be in place early next year.
It will then be dedicated at a special service to be held during next year's Veteran's Week.
The monument will incorporate a plaque to the three officers who died in 1983 – Colin Morrison, Gordon Connolly and Angela Bradley – but it will also be a reminder of the daily perils faced by all 999 workers.
Solicitor Dana Gledhill, who has led the fund-raising campaign, told The Gazette: "The aim is to commemorate not only those who have sadly lost their lives, but also the work the emergency services do in our community every single day.
"There will be four figures, interlinked to depict co-operation and strength, made from a core of steel surrounded by highly polished blue Perspex.
"They will be underlit so they will glow blue in the dark.
"The emblems of each of the emergency services will be engraved on the plinth.
"We don't think there is anything honouring all four services, as this will do, anywhere else in the country.
"We hope to have the monument in position during the early part of next year with a view to dedicating it during Veterans' Week.
"Our latest fundraising event was the Blue Light Ball in September which was just after the shooting of the police officers in Manchester which made it very poignant and we held a minute's silence.
"I think this will be an appropriate tribute to all those who have lost their lives."
Police officers Morrison, Connolly and Bradley died when they tried to save a man who had gone into the sea to rescue his dog opposite Gynn Square in January 1983.
Rachel Baines, chairman of the Lancashire Police Federation, which represents the county's rank and file officers, said: "An awful lot of work has gone into making the monument a reality.
"I think it will be a fitting tribute to those who have lost their lives in the course of duty, and those working every day to protect the people they serve.
"And it is appropriate it represents all four of the emergency services who often work so closely together."
The monument has been designed in Blackpool by Matthew Titherington, manager of Golden Mile attraction Madame Tussauds.
He said: "I'm very proud my design was chosen for such a fantastic memorial which celebrates and remembers the work the emergency services do for us here in Blackpool."
Contractor George Cox and sons has agreed to build the foundations and project manage the scheme free of charge.
Fund-raising will continue after the monument is in place including the continuation of the annual Blue Light Ball, in order to maintain the gardens and also to support other local good causes.


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Hi this is my guide about Diana the scorn of the moon.
Before i start, need to say if i have bad grammatical its because the english it's not my first language. so i really apreciate if u can comment and help me to improve this guide.
Well diana is a formidable AP mid and believe me she can carry a game if u play smart.
I will show you how to play her and explain my own build
Pros / Cons
Burst Damage
Its Really cool assasin
Very funny to play
Its not really hard to master
a lot survivability
Mana hungry
she dont have direct form to escape
all enemy team gonna focus you if you are doing well
Before lvl 6 its really hard to get a kill
Greater Glyph of Warding this rune its perfect in mid because she dont have range to attack and almost all the time you are vs other AP champion
Greater Mark of Alacrity With this rune your passive lets gonna hurt people
Greater Quintessence of Potency with this extra you can have a decendt CS because your passive Moonsilver Blade make AOE damage
Greater Seal of Force and with this when u become lvl 6 u have extra AP to make a lot damage
I use this masteries because guarantees to me a good Damage and survivability vs others Ap Carry.
You are free to make all the changes that you need it at last you are who gonna play with her
Team Work
Well the most important thing in the game the "Team Work" and "Team Fight" Remember you are not a TANK and you cant kill all the other team by your own damage you need the team.
Your first target its the carry but dont run in the middle of the battle to chase the carry. Wait for the best moment to jump in the fight because your burst damage make you the first target for the CC and the other team gonna protec really good their carry.
Remeber all the time you have to comunicate with your teammate if you go to gank other lane or with you jungler because you are NOT a TANK DPS ASSASSIN BRUISER APC ADC SUPPORT so you cant kill all the time doing tower diving ;) tust me that i love Diana
Important thing you have to remember you are not a AP ranged so you have to care at the moment when you gonna farm.
you can use your Q to farm but you have mana and its not infinite.
Try to make last hit close to the other champion because whit your passive after a few hits he come back to their tower and try to hit with your Q the minions and the champion at the same time if he play far away the minions don't waste all your mana in hitting him with your Q better use for farm
Hard Line
Malzahar a good farmer great damage and the most danger thing he have 2 CC Call of the void and Nether Grasp so if you have troubles with him you can ask for help or build Banshees veil or some MR
Atention with Swain because he is a tricky opponent with Ravenous Flock and Nevermove he can kill you easy with all his combo try to avoid Nevermove[/url] and you can reduce his curation with Morellonomicon
its the same situation vs ViktorXerathVeigar for mention a fews you can save yourself if you pay atention when they have his ult or CC on CD.
If you are against a champion with channeling skills like Fiddle you can cut his skill with Moonfall
Againts CC AP
With this star you can avoid the CC and have more reliable.
this build make you like a good Mage but you cant face really well with basic attack dont worry with this damage you can kill easy your main target and you can resist a good damage
Thanks for read the guide please if you have a question or a tip you can write me to improve this guide
i probe this build in ranked game 3vs3 and solo duo with a good results


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Cool Girls: What's Wrong With Jennifer Lawrence?Monday, March 3rd, 2014
Cool girls fade out and become less interesting the minute they have a real thought. Otherwise, they're just entertaining, frothy nothingburgers–an idealistic creation to make people feel better. At least, that's my sum up of this piece about Jennifer Lawrence and the "cool girls" before her.
Pardon me if I don't get so overwrought about this. Every once in a while, a woman comes along who has male interests, enjoys the company of men because of those interests, and she's also incredibly beautiful. What the less pretty or less talented or more stereotypically female or as tomboyish but less feminine women don't understand is that this girl, then woman, isn't trying to be something. She is this person.
What can she do but be what she is?
In Lawrence's case, she's self-deprecating. She admits to be a virtual shut in. She isn't a gad about (i.e. screwing around with male stars in succession). She is beautiful. She has a job. It's not a world-changing job. It's not a self-sacrificial job (like being a nun or nurse or fire fighter). It's acting.
Jane Fonda's job was to act. She was good at that. And then she changed the equation. She used her beauty and platform to lecture Americans about what they should believe. She changed her job title from actress to activist. Well, okay, that's her choice. But don't get angry when her fan base dries up because they disagree with her politics.
Sean Penn's politics are naive and kinda make people hate him. They don't hate him because he's beautiful. They hate him because he's stupid and uses his platform as a spoiled, rich actor to rail against the very system that benefitted him. Fonda is in the same category.
Are people bigoted against the "cool guy"?
If Jennifer Lawrence's star falls, it will be because everyone likes to see the guy at the top topple. It's a nasty reality of success. Once a person achieves it, there are multiple people who would love to see the person fail.
Jennifer Lawrence mitigates that far fall by stumbling over herself. She takes herself down a notch–whether it's conscious or not. So, average person sees the beautiful, bawdy Ms. Lawrence and remembers falling at a wedding and doesn't feel so envious. They pull for her because she's human.
Well, most pull for her. For some, she can't fall enough. One wonders what a woman must do to please other women.
War On Women Wisconsin Edition: Slut Shaming Is Okay When Feminists Do ItMonday, April 16th, 2012
Governor Scott Walker's campaign spokeswoman Ciara Matthews finds herself on the receiving end of misogyny by feminists and leftist press.
Her crime? She waited tables at Hooters while going to college. Steven Elbow asks the penetrating question:
But to the direct question: Were you a Hooters girl? She said, "I was."
Matthews said she waited tables for the popular restaurant chain — which features tasty chicken wings and waitresses in short shorts and low-cut tops –- while attending college at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas.
"So you guys want to write a story that I waited tables in college," she said. "I'm confused as to why that's a story."
Well, she may have a point. What makes news is not always easy to pinpoint. But as we say in the biz: You know it when you see it. [Emphasis added.] And with a recall election looming in which she will often be front-and-center as Walker battles to keep his job, details that might otherwise be ignored become interesting.
Like porn? So, working at Hooters is like story porn? That's the allusion that this writer made:
The phrase was famously used by United States Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to describe his threshold test for pornography in Jacobellis v. Ohio (1964). Obscenity is not protected speech under the Miller test, and can therefore be censored.
I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description ["hard-core pornography"]; and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it, and the motion picture involved in this case is not that. [Emphasis added.]
—Justice Potter Stewart, concurring opinion in Jacobellis v. Ohio 378 U.S. 184 (1964), regarding possible obscenity in The Lovers.
The expression became "one of the most famous phrases in the entire history" of the Supreme Court.[1
But that's just the beginning. Jezebel publishes a provocative picture of Ciara. Because, you know, conservative women get what's coming to them.
And Ciara's story comes on the heels of feminists doubling down on attacking Ann Romney.
Bill Maher gets in on the act.
Oh, and don't forget Amanda Marcotte and the feminists over at Pandagon. Some women are more equal than others, just ask Amanda.
And then there's Time Magazine's Judith Warner piling on Ann Romney, too. Her implication is laughable. As though, she, Judith Warner, is somehow more touch with the suffering masses than Ann Romney.
And finally, because what would your day be like without Roseanne Barr's opinion, the comedienne weighs in. It's what you'd expect. More privilege bashing from a woman who is unbelievably privileged.
On the positive side, one feminist, Wendy S. Goffe at Forbes, said this:
I thought of all this when the news broke recently about Democratic strategist Hilary Rosen's comment that Ann Romney "never worked a day in her life."
I don't know Ann Romney, but as a working mom, I don't know how she found the time to raise five children. And by the way, Ann Romney has multiple sclerosis. Her life sure sounds a lot harder than going to an office, where someone else makes the coffee, and I know my daughter is well cared for by a nanny that is the closest thing to Mary Poppins in the 21st century.
As a Democrat, I am simply embarrassed by that comment. Rightly distancing himself from Hilary Rosen, President Obama came to Ann Romney's defense, and the defense of all stay-at-home moms, saying that "there's no tougher job than being a mom. . . Anybody who would argue otherwise, I think, probably needs to rethink their statement." I am proud to have a president who is in touch with his constituents, regardless of political party or appearances.
I also feel privileged to have the job that I do and the ability to hire a nanny. Frankly, I don't have the skills to raise five children.
Many liberals are wholly hypocritical about how they treat conservative women–whether they're young, beautiful up-and-comer working outside the home women or middle-aged, working inside the home moms.
They hate conservative women and attacks are fair game.
That's too bad because it seems to be the opposite of what the Women's Movement was supposed to be about.
Says Goffe:
None of us lead the lives our appearance suggests. We each lie in bed at night with our personal terrors as to what life could be, or about what life is like right now, and whether we have the strength to get through it. Clothes and money rarely can make that go away.
The women's movement loses all credibility with it's "choices for me, but not for thee" and creating the abortion litmus test.
When conservative women are destroyed because they dissent from popular feminist opinion, all women lose. Why can't liberal women see this?
Thanks for the links Hot Air (Ed has more at the link about the Wisconsin tax deal and recall election), Insty, and Ann Althouse.
Pinterest Is Sexist….Against Women Says Forbes FeministWednesday, April 11th, 2012
Pinterest is sexist….against women. Seriously, that's the position of Victoria Pynchon who says:
Pinterest Frames Women's Interests within Tight Gender Boundaries
Go on over to Pinterest and try to find a category for business, marketing, management, entrepreneurism, politics, activism, reproductive choices, negotiation, finance, investing, law, consulting, journalism, or pretty much anything having to do with women working for a living.
This is, in a word, ridiculous.
Go to Barnes-N-Noble and what do you see? Racks of home improvement, cooking, house and garden, and fashion porn. That's right, porn. It's fantasy for the average woman, who comes home to her crappy couch and Hamburger Helper.
Where does she come home from? Work. What does she read because the last thing she wants to do is watch the news and/or think about business? Traditional Home, Better Homes & Garden, or in my bigwig President of a division at a Fortune 500 corporation sister: Rolling Stone (I know, I don't get it either) and Conde Nast Travel or something.
What's in these magazines? Beautiful pictures, mostly. Some human interest stories. Tips for living.
Why, just like Pinterest!
Yesterday, President Obama's Pinterest team pinned some garbage about how awesome he is and so I trolled the pins. I linked to the truth. I disputed on a factual basis. No one disputed the facts, mind you. They disputed whether I should be talking about politics.
"Pinterest is a happy place," one pinner said.
Okay then.
I'm figuring that Pinterest has done tons of market research and knows exactly what women want. Just as random porn sites know exactly what men want.
Is this a gross overgeneralization? Of course.
I noticed the constrained categories on Pinterest, too. Eh. I've worked around them. I have a Best Practices business page. I have a Tech Talk page. I have an America the Beautiful page. And then there's the Politics of Freedom page.
They have lots of followers. My recipes page has more. Yes, I've used some of them–even women who own a couple business have to eat, and horrors! might like to cook.
What seems sexist to me is that a woman would consider a site dedicated to what most women consider interesting discriminatory.
After years of attempted gender reconstruction, and after years of women working (and nearly 80% of women do), women are still wired as women. That is, what stimulates them visually is, say, different than men. And that's okay.
Being a girly girl is okay. I say that as a woman who has always liked "guy stuff" more–Google search metrics pegged me as a 50 to 60 year old man interested in technology and politics.
What bothers me is that to be a feminist, one cannot have traditionally feminine interests without being perceived as "less than". Who is discriminating again?
If the majority of women like gardening, cooking, home improvement, kids crafts, and fashion, what do I care? Really? Why in the world should the difference bother any other woman?
I suggest the tomboys among us embrace Pinterest. It's finally a female-dominated social media platform. It's beautiful in form. It's aspirational in substance.
Pinterest has the men joining in droves, too. As the demographics even out, categories will probably be added. Why? Because the market demands it.
It's not discrimination. It's Marketing 101 in practice.
But really, if men have to submit their boards to categories of the Matriachy's standards, is that so bad?
My friend Adrienne Royer says this:
There's so much stupid here, I don't know where to begin.
1. Pinterest is still in beta. You MUST ASK FOR AN INVITATION. The women who are there are there because they want to be. Pink, lace and pretty houses aren't being forced down their throats.
2. You'd think a writer at Forbes could do some research. Pinterest was started by a group of guys. Unless these men miraculously understand women better than any XY chromosome in history, the adoption of the site by women was purely accidental.
In fact, Pinterest was started to be an idea board for creative thought leaders. The main founder has a degree in architecture and worked at Facebook. He was into design, typography and photography. He thought the site would take off in the creative class.
The way women have taken to it has shocked everyone, including Silicon Valley.
3. The real story isn't that Pinterest isn't forcing the patriarchy down our throats. The real story is that women love social networks, the ability to share information that is vetted by trusted people and the ability to research. The real story is how Silicon Valley is still a boy's world and women are pretty much shut out. Right now, there are all kinds of venture capitalists scratching their heads and wondering how Pinterest became some popular because none of them ever thought about designing a social network that would draw women.
Why aren't they harping on that?
The Culture War IS The Fiscal War: Feminism And The Big Slutty LieMonday, March 5th, 2012
People like to separate fiscal conservatives from social conservatives. It's impossible to do.
The nut of Sandra Fluke's argument is this: pay for my contraception. If it doesn't work, pay for my abortion. If I decide to have the kid, but not work and do something like "community organizing" or "reproductive rights activism", pay for my lifestyle choice. [More on Sandra Fluke here.]
And herein lies the problem with a purely libertine argument: Someone has to pay for all this freedom.
True personal liberty comes with a lot of personal responsibility.
The way it stands now, though, feminists are pushing for the state to take care of everything.
At the least, a man should pony up a condom to have sex, but no. A woman is too afraid to have this discussion, evidently, and refuses to force the man to buy and wear a condom. Were she mature enough to have this conversation, her sex life would be "free" so long as the condom wasn't defective or broke.
Then, of course, whether the woman is on the pill or using condoms, there's always contraception failure. The woman will have to live with the STD or baby consequences. And again, she'll want the taxpayer to pay for that, too. Antibiotics and prenatal care aren't free, after all. Worst, she wants people of conscience to pay for her abortion. They, in turn, feel forced to pay a hitman to kill an innocent person.
A truly "free" woman would pay for her choices, but the fact is, that these choices can all be very expensive.
In the past, when sex was more the provenance of two monogamous and committed people, the man and woman would negotiate these things. And if a "mistake" did happen, the man would "do the right thing" and marry the woman.
Old fashioned? Maybe. Cost effective for the taxpayer? Absolutely. Good for the fabric of society and for that child? No question.
Barack Obama and his merry band of slutty misfits want to have all the fun and none of the responsibility of the consequences should things not go just the way they're supposed to in the sexual arena (and when do they ever?).
So, in the last year of a horribly failed presidency, President Obama wants the focus to be on "contraceptive rights" when there are no such thing. It's a great way to distract from the statist policies he's employing: He wants to diminish the role of faith in the public space, and in the place of men/husbands/fathers, he wants an all-powerful state to pay for, mold, and control the next generation. Or kill them.
If this fight feels primal and visceral, it is because it is. The cultural war that the left has started has had dire public policy consequences. The welfare state has failed.
We have a nation of fatherless children living in poverty because their mothers bought the feminist lie that having sex like a hound-dog man, outside of marriage is "empowering".
Single mothers are faced with the bitterness of powerlessness.
Defend that, liberals. Explain how living in poverty, alone, with multiple children, no education, an STD and no father is better than a two-parent family, feminists.
Answer: It isn't.
There will be no apologizing from me. The feminist movement as symbolized by the useful idiot Sandra Fluke has lied to and cursed a generation of women. Meanwhile, putting future generations of responsible tax paying men and women on the hook. [Update: Dana Loesch on faux rage.]
The culture war is a fiscal war. And America's children are the losers both ways.
Teri Cristoph of Smart Girl Politics to Women: You're Being Used. Teri says:
Knowing that women voters are leaving Obama, the left has deliberately waged a war designed to scare them into thinking their birth control will be taken from them. EMILY's List calls these disenchanted women voters "defectors" and they'll stop at nothing to get them back.
The use of the word "defector" by the left is supremely insulting. A defector is someone who switches allegiances, usually in a manner deemed to be traitorous. Got that? If you are a woman who voted for Obama in '08 but don't like what he's done as president and don't plan to vote for him again, you are considered a traitor by the left. Newsflash: Women are not born with a genetic allegiance to the Democrat party and its liberal causes. Plenty of us prefer to think for ourselves.
Democrats are running scared knowing that a significant number of women are wise to the fact that the economy has tanked, true unemployment is around 25 percent, and our president is wholly unequipped to deal with any of it. They also know that women voice their discontent at the ballot box. So they are waging this war against women. They use people like Sandra Fluke to distract from the real issues at stake this election season. They use women as pawns in their political game.
Yes, there is a war against women in 2012 and it's certainly no fluke.
What Rush Limbaugh should have done in the face of the attack by Mean Girls (emphasis on girls–women don't act irresponsibly and then want to be personally bailed out):
There are many conservatives who unfortunately allow the left to take their morality and use it to stifle their dissent. Limbaugh should have gone on the attack. He should have said "no apology" and exposed her for the partisan hack that she is. Do I care if Fluke fucks 50 guys? No, but I do care if she uses her position to gang up with other mean girls (and guys) to ram a political mandate down the throats of companies who do not believe in what she is peddling.
Standing up to mean girls is hard. I am in the process of writing a book on men's attitudes towards marriage and society and it is damn hard to get individual men to be interviewed. If I ask questions on the internet or in an anonymous setting, I am flooded with comments from men. I recently had over 3200 men answer a poll about paternity fraud, but try to get just a few men to talk in person? That's tough. And most are very concerned that their name will not be published. I don't blame them. The mean girls are out in society in full force.
If Rush Limbaugh can't stand up to the mean girls, who can?
Via Instapundit
More on Fatherhood from LaShawn Barber.
Feminists Lie, Women's Hopes DieThursday, December 1st, 2011
Women want to believe that they're impervious to things like age and ovaries. So, during peak creative years, women push their energy into relatively time unlimited endeavor–career–instead of a very time limited endeavor–having babies.
Young mothers are scorned for being stupid, giving up their potential, subjugating themselves to a man's world.
Ironically, by subscribing to a dirty man's definition of success — rutting like animals and climbing the corporate ladder by any means necessary — women deprive themselves of doing the one thing that is essentially female–giving birth.
Newsflash: Only women can do it. There are requirements. A woman must have a functional uterus, fresh eggs, good health and it's really helpful to have economic and emotional support. In old-fashioned terms, that was called a husband.
Imagine the shock, then, when women find out that they've been lied to about their reproductive ability:
A decade ago, a fertility ad campaign on public buses in several big cities sparked a vicious backlash. It featured a baby bottle shaped like an hourglass, to warn women their time was running out. But women's rights groups called it a scare tactic that left women feeling pressured and guilty.
Another ad campaign? Sure, says Mingo.
"And it needs to come on when men are paying attention," she says. "Heck, put it on in the middle of a football game or something!"
Women are afraid of losing career opportunities. It's not like there is one choice or the other. I've always worked while having kids.
Still, it helped that because of medical training waiting to have kids was no option because it limited options.
When you know you want kids, and maybe a big family, two things should be a priority:
1. Getting married.
2. Getting pregnant.
So, women in their 20s need to strike while their hot body and biology work to their advantage. This, of course, is very politically incorrect advice.
Telling a woman to carve out time to date, join social institutions (like, horrors!, churches) that encourage marriage, etc. just seems so old-fashioned.
Well getting married and having kids young has many biological and sociological and cultural advantages.
Women need to be told the truth about their limitations so they can change their life choices accordingly. Many who want and should have children won't be able to because of the lies they believe and they'll find out the truth too late.
Genocide In India: The Logical Conclusion When Life Is DevaluedSaturday, November 14th, 2009
I've written about this before [read here] and received this comment today from Rita Banerji:
I lived in the U.S. for many years and I was and am still pro-choice. Yet, when I returned to India as an adult even my pro-choice mind could not comprehend the absolute horror of the fact that in less than a century India has eliminated more than 50 million women from its population. It is targetted elimination and by definition a genocide. That's when I started the 50 Million Missing Campaign. Our website is www.50millionmissing.in
And you are absolutely right Melissa. There is a big block in the west regarding female genocide in India. It is not an anti-abortion issue. The Soroptimist International just last week took on this cause. And I hope other feminist and human rights groups will.
More so it is not just about female feticide. There is infanticide, dowry murders, under 5 mortality rate and abortion related MMRs (1 woman every 5 minutes in India). I just published an article for the Australian journal Intersections. Here is the link:
At the link [Go read the whole thing]:
The public reservation, however, is with the actual likelihood of such a mass-scale elimination occurring. Occasionally one reads in Indian papers about baby body parts being found in a well in the compound of some clinic, or a young woman dying of burns under suspicious circumstances due to a supposed kitchen accident, but there is nothing in the news that suggests a blood-bath on the scale of a genocide. To drive home the point to my Rotary audience, I put up on the overhead a two columned table relating to the annual rates of female homicide in India. This slide included the means of elimination, and the estimate for the annual rate for each category.
Table 1. Annual Rates of Female Homicide in India
Female foeticide approximately 1 million[5]
Female infanticide approximately 25000 in the State of Kerala alone[6]
Dowry-related murders approximately 25000[7]
Preadolescent mortality 1 in 6 dies before 15 yrs (CRY)[8]
Mortality rate 40% higher for girls under 5 than boys the same age (UNICEF)[9]
Maternal mortality rate (MMR) 136,000
(1 woman dies every 5 minutes due to pregnancy-related causes) (WHO)[10]
# The number one means of elimination I pointed out, is female foetal abortions. An estimated 1 million female foetuses are selectively eliminated in India each year, and that number is expected to rise to 2.5 million within the next few years.[11] Method number two is female infanticide, a practice that has a long history in India. So far there has been no national average estimated for female infanticide, largely because it is difficult to track down with there being no administrative compulsion for citizens to register births. Nevertheless, existent data gives an indication of the scale of the practice. In the state of Kerala, one of India's most progressive states, with a literacy rate of over 90 per cent, it is estimated that about 25,000 new born girls are killed every year.[12] In other states like Bihar, where the issue of gender bias is plainly discernable, one survey reveals that mid-wives interviewed admitted to being paid to kill almost 50 per cent of the baby girls they delivered.[13] As the number three method of elimination I listed dowry murders, also known as 'dowry deaths.' Despite the fact that a majority of dowry-related homicides of young married women in India are never even filed with the police, in the late 1990s it was estimated that at least 25,000 young married women were cold-bloodedly murdered by their husbands and in-laws in dowry extortion cases.[14] That number has continued to rise, as the practice of dowry itself spreads to communities, like tribal groups, that traditionally never had the custom of dowry.
What happens when an evil element of a culture meets up with technology? Genocide.
There is a disconnect for Western women. Because of cultural relativism and their own desire to have the power of life and death over another human, they avert their eyes when the same motivation is used on a grand scale to engage in the most misogynistic of ventures: killing women because men are better (and, in India, cheaper).
But the choice to eliminate a life for gender seems like just one reason among many to have an abortion. 90% of mongoloid children are aborted in America. In America, that child is viewed is dysfunctional, less than, and wrong. In India, women babies are viewed that way. It's just a different culture. All over the world, people want the "useful". In India, women aren't very useful. In America, retarded children aren't very useful.
At some level, mostly unconscious, Western women know they are little different than their Indian counterparts which is why they stay silent in the face of the biggest female genocide in history.
Wayne Elise: The Modern Dale Carnegie Explains How To Talk To Women, Tech & Dating, And Sex V. SensualityThursday, September 24th, 2009
A persistent complaint in the male-dominated political blogosphere is the difficulty getting a woman. Guys like Ace and Allah have made their hard luck in love laments part of their schtick. Well.
Wayne Elise makes his living helping men find women. I suggested to him that we should have a lonely hearts male blogger meet-up, video tape it and see how good he really is. I personally wonder if the male bloggers protest too much and actually have healthy personal lives or if they're in dire need of his services. Wouldn't it be fun to find out?
Anyway, we also talked about the culture and how it's affecting dating. He noted that women are getting much more aggressive, that sex is talked about more but there seems to be less of it, and that mystery is gone, too.
At the end I discuss Obama v. Palin. Hope you'll listen!
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Why Are Women Unhappier Than Men? An AnswerMonday, September 21st, 2009
It's statements like these that get my co-blogger John Hawkins in trouble:
It's not choices that are causing problems for women, it's expectations.
Women are no longer merely expect to act like women. Now, feminism, liberalism, and Hollywood says they've got to be able to do everything women used to do AND everything that men still do, and then some.
The old feminine ideal was the woman who got married to a good man, stayed home, took care of their house, took care of the kids, and took pride in making the whole family function.
Now, look at the messages women get from popular culture: Dress like a fashion model, cat around like the women from Sex in the City, get married, have a beatiful house, have 2.5 kids, have a career that's every bit as successful and fulfilling as your husband's, and still look like a professional actress, even when you're 60 years old.
There are only so many hours in a day, days in a week, and weeks in a year and there just isn't time for most women to do all that. Granted, there are a few who manage to pull it off — or at least seem to do it to the outside world.
But, the reality is that most people have skills, abilities, desires, and wants that they never fulfill — women, in part because of their emotional natures, are just made to feel worse about not living up to the hype of what modern feminism says a woman should be.
Oh boy.
Where I agree: Yes, women have more expectations now and that can make life difficult. That is, women both internally and societally are expected to do the whole female progenitor life-cycle thing within the male-defined work-cycle. A woman who doesn't "work" is often viewed with suspicion both by modern men and women who work outside the home.
As a working, professional woman, I can tell you that the expectations grate. I've had women judge me for working (a female patient said to me once, as I was taking the practice for my husband who had sprained his ankle), "You're not leaving your children at home, are you?" I've had women judge me when I took time to take care of my babies and then, home school my children one year. Men, too.
So the nearly impossible standards applied culturally–Oprah, Martha Stewart, Rachel Ray–can make a woman feel "less than" no matter what she decides to do.
Where I disagree: This statement rather breezily dismisses the untapped potential of women: " the reality is that most people have skills, abilities, desires, and wants that they never fulfill".
Really? Without the biological imperative, men have a freer time of fulfilling their skills, abilities, and desires. What are they denied? Gestating, birthing and nursing a baby is what they're denied. That's a huge trade-off, one, as a woman, I would never give away. Still, the reality is this: since I value myself and my children, and how I'm wired and made, I decided to focus on my children for a few years. That, by necessity, slowed my career roll during what would be considered peak professionally creative years. Ten years later, I'm jumping in with both feet while still balancing my child raising concerns–working around a school schedule and cutting hours to be with my pre-school age child. Childhood is fleeting, and I want to be there for it.
Still, I do not have the dichotomy that only a stay-at-home mother can be a good mother. That's just patently false. Both fathers and mothers can parent a child, even a baby. There are wonderful care-givers who raise children even better than parents. For generations, children have had nannies, grand-parents and other care-givers and most survive just fine. I am not, however, a fan of huge day care centers, but there are even good versions of those.
This all being said, a woman with talents and gifts does NOT have to subsume them to motherhood in order to be a good woman, or a good Christian woman. That is just nonsense. It should be an affront to all men and women that a woman's talents, gifts and desires can be dismissed as an acceptable trade for a housewife life.
Many women find a way to incorporate their gifts into their family life. Having stayed at home, I can testify to the challenge of managing a house and kids. It is no lie when people say it's the most difficult job and so many elements of it are beyond a person's control. That is, a child may cry inconsolably, the house is perpetually being "undone", dirty laundry self-generates, and all of these things are out of a person's control. And in today's society, a woman is alone at home. She can be socially disconnected. The internet has been a huge gift to stay-at-home parents. It's a connection.
Social isolation and lack of control contribute to unhappiness. Read up on psychologist Seligman's work in this regard. That's a stay-at-home parent's whole lot in life. There is a good reason women at home might be unhappy and the unhappiness increases the more kids a woman has. More kids equals less control. Also, she may be frustrated at her unused talents.
Before the post-war generation, women often worked with men–in the fields, in the tavern, in the store, etc. A woman was not June Cleaver. The industrial age changed a woman's role. Tasks became divided. A man changed the oil and mowed the lawn. A woman cooked and cleaned. Exclusively.
In this new generation, women are working and rearing kids and doing many things. They may be unhappier than men, but that in no indicates that a woman should be only in the kitchen. Now, if that role fulfills her (and I know that for many women, this is the case) she will contribute mightily to the household.
More women these days are like me. Moving in and out of the workforce around children and going back to work when the kids reach school age. Is it more challenging? Maybe. Not maybe. Absolutely, it is. But would women trade this? I can only speak for myself, but the answer is a resounding "no".
I have the pleasure of writing, doctoring and being an online activist while also being a mother. I love it all. And many women embrace the freedom to choose these roles.
It should also be noted that with loosening societal strictures, men, too, are becoming more involved in the household tasks and child rearing. That's all to the good. This too, is not a new phenomenon. In the pre-industrial world, kids knew what dad did because at a certain age, kids helped dad do the work. Kids bond with fathers just as surely as they bond with mothers. It has a different quality, of course, but it's just as real and necessary.
This is a lot of words to say that I think it's wrong to dismiss the loss to the individual woman and to society when a woman doesn't use her gifts and talents just as I think it is a loss to the individual man and to society when a man doesn't involve himself with his child's life.
That men would discourage women from using their gifts is patently wrong. That women would discourage men from child-involvement is patently wrong.
If there is one gift the feminist movement gave to society, it's this: women have the freedom to pursue developing their talents. This societal shift forced men to become more involved (or, it put more burdens on women who don't hold a man's feet to the fire). Both men and women have benefited.
Naomi Wolf's Feminism: Burqas Are Beautiful!Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
Naomi Wolf defended the Muslim veil. This is something I wrote about a couple weeks ago amidst some controversy because I feel that the face covering specifically is wrong for the reasons Phylllis Chesler mentions here:
I know that writers don't often choose the titles of their articles but your article led your editor to title the piece: "Behind the Veil Lives a Thriving Muslim Sexuality." I do not want to repeat what I've already written but your article asks whether "we in the West (are not) radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores?" And, you write that the "Western interpretation of veiling as repression of women and of their sexuality….is not so, (but is rather) rooted in a strong sense of public versus private…what is due to God and what is due to one's husband."
This does not sound like a feminist indictment of female genital mutilation, forced veiling, forced illiteracy, forced arranged child marriage, polygamy, normalized daughter- and wife-beating, honor killings, or the torture and murder of so many people, both women and men, in Iran, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Sudan, Somalia and Algeria, by Islamists paramilitary forces and by the Islamic government.
You ask that I publish your piece. Indeed, I have already "published" your piece by linking to it in my blog. It is embedded in the piece. Check it out for yourself.
Naomi: Both your generation and my much earlier generation of feminists have failed a universal vision of women's human rights; most have become multi-cultural relativists and politically correct leftists. Such feminists have been more concerned with the rights of formerly colonized Muslim men than with the rights of formerly colonized and still colonized Muslim women. And, they view America and often Israel as the Evil Empires par excellence and give a free pass to Muslim tyranny.
I have stood almost alone and have been condemned by many for telling the truth about Islamic gender and religious apartheid, and about Israel, anti-Semitism, jihad, and America.
Post-modern feminists are loath to condemn real injustices towards Muslim women. They prefer whitewashing with pap like this from Wolf:
"Many Muslim women I spoke with did not feel at all subjugated by the chador or the headscarf. On the contrary, they felt liberated from what they experienced as the intrusive, commodifying, basely sexualizing Western gaze. … Many women said something like this: …'how tiring it can be to be on display all the time. When I wear my headscarf or chador, people relate to me as an individual, not an object; I feel respected.' This may not be expressed in a traditional Western feminist set of images, but it is a recognizably Western feminist set of feelings."
Here's what I wrote August 19:
It would make sense that Feminists would oppose burqas because they are a tool of oppression for women: that is, burqas are specifically made to make a woman persona non grata. A burqa's very purpose is to hide the woman and make her invisible as an individual. She is just not there.
But feminists, and liberals in general support the burqa. The woman has a "right to choose".
But Phyllis points out that is nonsense:
Most Muslim girls and women are not given a choice about wearing the chador, burqa, abaya, niqab, jilbab, or hijab (headscarf), and those who resist are beaten, threatened with death, arrested, caned or lashed, jailed, or honor murdered by their own families. Is Wolfe thoroughly unfamiliar with the news coming out of Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Sudan on these very subjects? Has she forgotten the tragic, fiery deaths of those schoolgirls in Saudi Arabia who, in trying to flee their burning schoolhouse, were improperly veiled and who were beaten back by the all-powerful Saudi Morality Police?
And this reality is what feminists don't want to see. They wish to excuse sexist, abusive, raping, and murderous behavior inherent in much of Islamic practice because to be against it would be a tacit approval of Western standards and that simply would not do. It would require a moral choice that would undermine their own criticism of their own patriarchal culture that has long since ceased to be abusive to women. Again, Phyllis says:
Wolf presents the West as anti-woman because it treats women as sex objects. Am I happy about pornography and prostitution in the West? Hell no and, unlike Wolf, I've fought against them–but to portray these vices as a "Western" evil, and one that the Islamic world opposes, is sheer madness.
It is well known that the Arabs and Muslims kept and still keep sex slaves–they are very involved in the global trafficking in girls and women and frequent prostitutes on every continent. You will find pornography magazines in every princely tent–those for boys as well as for girls. I am told that the Saudis fly in fresh planeloads of Parisian prostitutes every week. Perhaps they veil them before they conduct their all-night and all-day orgies. Or, perhaps they view them as natural, "infidel" prey.
Naomi Wolf and her American feminist ilk are spoiled rotten grown women who seem to have lost the ability to spot true oppression when it's right in front of their faces. The burqa has been effective on them, too, evidently. They don't see the individual under the cover, either. They see their own desires to be judged purely by their brains and accomplishments and long for a way to have their physical imperfections hidden. They see a burqa as a useful feminist tool to achieve that end. What they don't see is that by being visually invisible, burqa clad women become literally invisible in society, as a cohesive force, as women.
The Feminist's own callous disregard for the covered and abused women as individuals demonstrates why burqas are an abomination. Perhaps if they saw the bruised, beaten, bleeding, burnt bodies of these women, the torment of women suffering under radical Islam, under the burqa, would be real to them.
Cyber Rape: Conservative Women Have It Coming & The Hypocrisy of Feminism–UPDATEDTuesday, June 9th, 2009
My latest Pajamas Media column practically wrote itself this last weekend and could have been twice as long. The column discusses how feminists are a-ok with misogyny as long as conservative women are the recipients. It's summed up nicely in the bumper sticker, "They're not women! They're Republicans!"
I'd like to add a few more examples of the Feminists willful ignorance and determination of silence in the face of injustice. India has experienced a gendercide–that is millions of female babies have been aborted because they're female. The same thing has been happening in China where single men looking for women become scam victims. All in all, the very tool the Leftist women worship (Bonnie Erbe, "Abortion is a rite of passage") is used against women to annihilate the "lesser" sex. Leftists will stand around and wonder, however, what happened to 100,000,000 women–that's the gender disparity now. Don't say it ladies. Do not say it. Don't condemn the tool used to create this disparity. And don't condemn the religious and cultural foundation of hate for women. Don't do it.
You know those women being stoned in Saudi Arabia for showing ankles? Crickets. You know the women beaten, have acid thrown on them, and are beheaded for shaming a man? Not a word.
No wonder the Feminists are okay with President Obama's hideous Cairo speech. No wonder they stay silent regarding the hypocrisy of a President Obama's moral equivalence while he kept his wife out of Egypt and out of a burqua.
And finally, why would Feminist women condemn the cyber-rape of women they believe have it coming when they won't even defend themselves. Cassy Fiano writes of a Dutch journalist kidnapped and repeatedly raped by Islamists in Afghanistan who then goes on to defend her attackers who "respect her":
This is a perfect example of the problems with so many liberals today. They are so terrified to call Muslim jihadists what they are — terrorists, murderers, monsters — not because they might be physically harmed in some way, but because they might be branded intolerant. People like Joanie de Rijke don't look at themselves as sufferers of Stockholm Syndrome, they look at themselves as righteous and intellectual and open-minded and modern. What Mrs. de Rijke, along with so many others on the left, do not understand is that we do not call Muslim thugs and murderers (like the coward who abducted and raped her) monsters or terrorists simply because they are Muslim. We call them monsters or terrorists because they are murderers, rapists, and terrorists. Unfortunately, situations like this are black and white, even though liberals love the idea of moral relativism. There are no shades of grey. Murder is murder, just like rape is rape. A rapist cannot "respect" you, and rape is not something beyond a man's control simply because of his "high testosterone".
Also interesting is de Rijke's description of Gul as a religious man, yet also a hypocritical one. She, of course, is holding Gul to Judeo-Christian religious standards, not Islamic ones. The truth of the matter is, that his actions would indeed be considered hypocritical (and monstrous) by Judeo-Christian standards. By Islamic standards, they are not only not hypocritical, they are expected and acceptable. Muslims are commanded in the Koran to rape and kill infidels, and de Rijke would be considered an infidel. Of course, that little nugget of truth does not fit very neatly into her enlightened liberal worldview, so she ignores it.
So backward and insane are feminists that they will abuse themselves, abuse other women, and annihilate their own gender to serve the ideology that there is no right or wrong and that there is no one better or worse. The only sin is the sin of judgment and intolerance. And these women are willing to tolerate nearly anything except anyone who points out the limitation of their belief system.
Please read the column here.
Addendum: Yesterday night, Media Lizzy and I talked about feminism, beautiful women, sex and much more on my radio show for RFC radio called Right Doctor. You can listen Monday and Wednesday nights and chat with me from 10 – 11 EST, 9 CST, or catch the podcast from iTunes. Subscribe to The Right Doctor on iTunes.
Megan Carpentier editor of Jezebel contacted me and noted that she had written about the Playboy article. I had read her post but didn't link the article since the website itself seemed more of a fashion and style website. Upon further investigation, the site covers news of the day, too. Megan deserves credit for giving voice to what many self-professed pro-women refused to do: condemn sexism. Read her piece here.


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The Draw for Season VII of boxing's unique team competition the World Series of Boxing was held in Geneva on Wednesday morning (30 November), with acting AIBA Executive Director William Louis-Marie joined by Pat McCormack, Light Welterweight with last year's runners up British Lionhearts, for the drawing of the teams.
"I'm still unbeaten at WSB and I'm looking to keep it that way. I got Boxer of the Week 6 last year and I can't wait for the new season to start and to get underway. Last year the team did really well to get to the final and hopefully this time we'll go all the way," said Britain's Pat McCormack.
With the format for Season VII seeing the 12 teams split into three geographical zones; Americas, Europe/Africa and Asia, the draw established the fixture schedule for the preliminary stage running from February to April 2017. Group A consists of Argentina Condors, Season VI champions Cuba Domadores, Colombia Heroicos and Venezuela Caciques, Group B features Morocco Atlas Lions, Italia Thunder, France Boxing Team and British Lionhearts, and Group C sees Russian Boxing Team, China Dragons, Astana Arlans Kazakhstan and Uzbek Tigers facing each other for a place in the Play-Offs.
In the event of a 5-5 draw in any of the Play-Offs, all ten weight categories were also drawn to determine which weight would box in a tie-break. The Super Heavyweight (91+kg) will define the Quarter-Finals, and the Flyweight (52kg) the Semi-Finals and Finals. The first bouts of Season VII are scheduled to take place in February, with the Play-Offs beginning in May and the Final in June. The result of the Draw is as follows: