The Dreaded Patriarchy Claims Another Victim
From Mutterhals at Black Sun Gazette:
I read an article in Jezebel that irked me, which is why I don’t usually read Jezebel. I’m not a huge fan of anyone who feels the need to loudly assert that they are a card-carrying feminist. These are the same people who balk when you fail to assert the same and immediately assume that you must be some docile Nazi house wife.
The article mournfully retells the story of a female business blogger, who claims assuming a man’s identity online improved her standing in the fast paced, super-elite world of business blogging (nevermind the fact that her real sex was listed on her blog and available to everyone with two eyes and one functioning finger). In her words:
Business opportunities fell into my lap. People asked for my advice,…
Will Women Rule Over Men In The Future?
Joshua Glenn writes on Hilobrow:
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, women will likely overtake men in the American workforce some time this month or next. In August, women held 49.9 percent of the nation’s 132 million nonfarm jobs. Why? Because 80 percent of the 5.1 million people who have lost their jobs in this recession are men; and women are gaining the vast majority of jobs in the few sectors of the economy that are growing.
Doesn’t having, then raising children keep many women out of the workforce? Not so much. A chart posted to the NY Times’ Economix blog notes that women across the board have entered the labor market in higher numbers over the last three decades, but the biggest increases have been among mothers with young children.
What does this mean for men, you ask? John Broome, author of “It’s a Woman’s World,” a science fiction story that appeared in the DC comic book Mystery in Space (#8), asked the same thing way back in July 1952. As the panels shown here demonstrate, Broome predicted that women would one day cruelly discriminate against men — force them to work in the home, while women ran businesses and fought wars.
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Once Again: Roman Polanski, Sex Panic, and American Justice
Nick P at Black Sun Gazette
Unsurprisingly, people are confusing my indictment of the criminal justice system, feminism, and sex panic as an endorsement of drugging and raping a teenage girl. Forgive me for assuming that my position against the all too controversial subject of rape was self-evident. However, this isn’t the issue, at least not from where I’m standing. What was the issue and remains the issue is that Roman Polanski is being chucked to the wolves to defend Swiss bank profits. Unsurprisingly, feminism and the liberal left are all too happy to cheer the Justice Department on, using rhetoric strikingly similar to the right-wing.
