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- What Will the Obama Presidency Mean for Fathers? - by Submitted on Jan 20, 2009 from Cara InocencioI'm often asked what I think the Obama presidency will mean for fathers. I think there are some reasons to be optimistic and some reasons to be pessimistic. Below I list a bunch of them, not in any particular order. Positive: Obama clearly understands the importance of fathers, and has often ...
Views: 824 - Airbrushing Jessica Alba?! - by Submitted on Dec 08, 2008 from Cara InocencioFeminists complain that unrealistic body images in the media are harmful to women and girls. As I've written before (one example here), I think they have a point. It was one thing in previous eras, when actresses, models, etc. were in the top 2% of female beauty, but at least were depicted as ...
Views: 1232 - Christian Right Helps Exclude Mom From Daughter's Life - by Submitted on Nov 12, 2008 from Cara InocencioI've often discussed the issue of the rights of lesbian “social mothers”–women who agreed to employ a sperm donor so that they could have children with their lesbian partners, who are the biological mothers. I do believe that children fare best when they have both a mom and a dad, and that ...
Views: 788 - Thousands Protest Father-Bashing Domestic Violence - by Submitted on Oct 27, 2008 from Cara InocencioSeveral hundred Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) buses feature misleading, father-bashing ads purporting to address the serious issue of domestic violence. One ad depicts a happy little girl with the message "One day my husband will kill me." Another shows a smiling boy with the message "When I ...
Views: 880 - Judge Tells 40-Year-Old Woman 'You were a very unhappy lady when this 14-year-old boy seduced you' - by Submitted on Oct 23, 2008 from Cara InocencioAbout as clear an example of the female sentencing discount as you'll ever see, though this is so outrageous the word "discount" seems excessively tame. Perhaps "tame" would be better applied to the sentence--no jail time... From Mother was seduced by 14-year-old boy, says judge (UK Telegraph, ...
Views: 1243 - Nationally-Syndicated Radio Host Mike Gallagher Takes Cheap Shot at Obama's Supporters - by Submitted on Oct 15, 2008 from Cara InocencioI've respected conservative nationally-syndicated radio talk show host Mike Gallagher (pictured) for his willingness to take tough stands, such as during the Elian Gonzalez saga in 2000, when Gallagher was one of the few conservatives in the country who said plainly and clearly that Elian ...
Views: 1333(2 votes) - Obama Backers Trying To Create Media Storm Over Harmless McCain Remark - by Submitted on Oct 08, 2008 from Cara InocencioJust when the low-rent McCain-Palin tactics against Obama have disgusted me to the point of helping decide my vote, Obama's supporters are hammering McCain over an absolutely harmless comment he made during last night's debate. In discussing an energy bill backed by Bush-Cheney which McCain ...
Views: 971 - Out Of 1,000,000 Marriages Which Split Up, 999,900 Men Do Not Kill Their Wives/ex-wives - by Submitted on Oct 02, 2008 from Cara InocencioA common feminist/domestic violence establishment claim goes something like this--"a third of all women who are murdered are murdered by an intimate partner, whereas only 3% of men are murdered by an intimate partner." From this one would think that men are 11 times more likely to kill their ...
Views: 954 - The Stupidest Trial Ever? - by Submitted on Sep 30, 2008 from Cara InocencioAs a general rule I'm opposed to criminalizing victimless crimes such as drugs or prostitution, and a recent conversation with a friend further confirms my belief. Cary told me that he had recently been called to serve on a jury here in Los Angeles for the trial of a Latin American immigrant ...
Views: 1106 - Study Reports 'Nearly One In Five Young Women Have Experienced Forced Intercourse'--Is It Accurate? - by Submitted on Sep 24, 2008 from Cara InocencioFeminists have a bad habit of conflating voluntary sexual relations with rape, and here we go again. The Family Violence Prevention Fund's new youth rape study claims that "Nearly One in Five Young Women Have Experienced Forced Intercourse." Sounds terrible, right? Except that much of what they ...
Views: 732 - Obama Panders To Women By Pushing 'Wage Gap' Myth In New Ad - by Submitted on Sep 18, 2008 from Cara InocencioObama has a new ad out pushing the "wage gap" myth. As we've discussed many times, men earn more than women on average for many legitimate reasons. These include: 1) Men work longer hours at more demanding and hazardous jobs. 2) Men are more likely to travel, relocate or have long commutes for ...
Views: 885 - Man & Woman Steal Money in Investment Scam, He Gets 10 Years, She Gets... - by Submitted on Sep 16, 2008 from Cara Inocencio...probation. Maybe there's more to the story than what the Asbury Park Press says in the article below, but it looks suspiciously like the female sentencing discount is in play again. In the story it appears that they were equal partners in the business and should have been sentenced ...
Views: 848 - EU's Women's Rights Committee Wants To Ban 'Sexist' Ads - by Submitted on Sep 11, 2008 from Cara InocencioSo typical--a TV ad portraying women as attractive and alluring is "sexist," but men and fathers can be made to look like idiot husbands and bad fathers all day long and that's not sexist. Of course not--after all, men have everything and women have nothing, so how dare men ever complain about ...
Views: 1236 - Biden Selection is Bad News For America's Fathers - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2008 from Cara Inocencio"Biden says in family policy, 'Moms and kids come first.' For nearly two decades Biden has put fathers last." My new co-authored column, Biden Selection is Bad News for America's Fathers (San Jose Mercury-News, 9/2/08), discusses Senator Joe Biden’s role as the principle architect of federal ...
Views: 775 - Biden Selection Is Bad News For America's Fathers - by Submitted on Sep 09, 2008 from Cara Inocencio"Biden says in family policy, 'Moms and kids come first.' For nearly two decades Biden has put fathers last." My new co-authored column, Biden Selection is Bad News for America's Fathers (San Jose Mercury-News, 9/2/08), discusses Senator Joe Biden’s role as the principle architect of federal ...
Views: 838 - Oprah Magazine: Female Teachers Who Have Sex with Students Are Misguided Poor Souls Looking For Love... - by Submitted on Aug 28, 2008 from Cara Inocencio"Sex with students is bad, but why should it be the case that for women it's a case of 'poor boundaries' and for men it's hardcore brutal predation of the most evil sort?" Jay, a reader, recently wrote me a letter about an article in Oprah magazine on the number of female teachers caught having ...
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