The hapless victim, 63-year-old British citizen Bryan Davies, died of a massive heart attack last Friday after months of community harassment resulting from a false accusation of pedophilia. And what was the reason for the accusation?
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
A lot has changed since 1960. If Connie Francis were to sing “Where the Boys Are” today, she would not likely be talking about Ft. Lauderdale. And she probably wouldn’t be talking about college, either. This is because, in a decades-old phenomenon, boys have increasingly been stumbling academically.
Colleges have taken note of this and, in certain cases (mostly private institutions), have actually been favoring boys in the admissions process. It’s an interesting, albeit unofficial, twist on affirmative action. But this, in turn, has been noted by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, inspiring it to investigate whether colleges discriminate against girls by admitting less qualified boys.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
Are chemicals in our environment masculinizing girls and feminizing boys? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that this is the case, and one of the latest studies has linked exposure to a substance known as bisphenol A, or BPA, with aggressive behavior in girls.
Liz Szabo reports on the research in USA Today, writing,
“In the study of 249 pregnant women, the first to examine the effects
of BPA on children's behavior, researchers found that girls ... were
more likely to be aggressive if their mothers had high levels of BPA —
an estrogen-like chemical used in many consumer products — early in
pregnancy.”
Read the rest here.
Perhaps you’ve heard the tragic
story of David
Reimer. Born in Winnipeg, Manitoba,
Canada in 1966, David was the victim of a botched circumcision that left his
penis charred beyond surgical repair.
His parents Ron and Janet, no doubt beside themselves, were confused
about the best way to proceed. Then, one
day, they saw a man named Dr. John Money on television.
Money was talking about his theory of “gender neutrality,” which states that “gender identity” is learned rather than innate. The idea was that the sexes were the same except for the superficial physical differences; this implies that if a child were altered so as to superficially resemble the opposite sex and was raised as one of its members, he would be happy with that sexual identity. Hearing this, the Reimers hoped they had found their salvation.
Continue reading "Death of the West: Our Sexual Identity Crisis" »
By Selwyn Duke
Although there are still some kept awake by Soylent Green nightmares of overpopulation, many recognize that the developed world has long experienced a birth dearth. The pattern has been consistent: wherever societies modernize and attain prosperity — be it Europe, North America, Asia or elsewhere — a drop in birthrates to below replacement level (2.1 children per couple) follows. (This doesn't mean prosperity necessarily causes demographic decline, only that there has in modern times been a correlation between the two.)
Read the rest here.
A Swedish couple refuses to reveal whether their two-year-old child
is a boy or girl, claiming that "gender" is a "social construction."
By Selwyn Duke
Sweden has long been known for pristine lakes and forests, long-legged blondes and ultra-safe cars, but it's now distinguishing itself in another, more dubious, way: as the nation of feminism on steroids. There was the Swedish elementary school that removed urinals from the boys' bathroom because the male practice of standing up while tending to nature's call supposedly constitutes "triumphing in masculinity" and is "degrading to women" (you just can't make this stuff up). There were the Swedish parliamentarians who proposed the "Man Tax," which men would have to pony up to cover the social cost of violence against women (I'm tellin' ya', you can't make this up). Of course, there was no mention whether men would receive a tax rebate for male-developed scientific and medical advances that enabled female life expectancy to surpass that of men. Nor was there a counter-proposal for a stupidity tax.
In light of the above, it didn't surprise me to hear the story of "Pop." No, Pop isn't a sparkling beverage, graying patriarch or Rice Krispies elf. Pop is a two-and-half-year-old Swedish child — a Swedish child with two very strange Swedish parents. Or, to be precise, two very strange parents. I cannot say if they're strange for Swedes.
Read the rest here.
By Selwyn Duke
We all remember the infamous Duke University rape frame-up case, in which three white lacrosse players were falsely accused of raping a black female stripper. It was front-page news coast to coast, as it had all the elements of a mainstream-media cause célèbre: the perfect victim and the perfect villains, a “downtrodden” black woman of modest means and three “privileged” white college boys. Thus did the hard-left alliance of media, academia, and a Democrat prosecutor try its best to lynch the three, and if the stripper’s story hadn’t changed with the wind, the students could very well be sitting in prison currently.
But now we have a real Duke rape case, and one that largely conforms to the above narrative. Frank Lombard, Duke’s associate director of the Center for Health Policy, faces federal criminal charges for offering his adopted five-year-old adopted son for sex. Where are the parallels? Lombard is white and well-to-do while his victim, the son, is black (Lombard also has a second adopted son, who is black as well).
Read the rest here.
By Bruce Walker
The putrid comments by Letterman about Sarah Palin and her daughter, and the dethronement of Carrie Prejean for the vice of honesty bring home just how savagely civil life has been murdered by the Left. We no longer have a civil public life. It has been crushed between pinchers of enraged nihilism and fantasy causes. “Feminists” or the Ladies Auxiliary of Marxist Enmity (LAME) should be threatening boycotts of the CBS or demanding the de-politicization of beauty contests, but that presumes LAME cares about women: its disciples care only about venting their private fury towards an empty life.
Ginsburg Says that She Thought Roe Was to Rid us of "Populations that We Don't Want to Have Too Many of"
By Selwyn Duke
Using a phrase right out of Planned Parenthood founder Margaret Sanger's book, Justice Ruth Bader-Ginsburg recently said in an interview, "I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don't want to have too many of [emphasis mine]." Well, well, would you please elaborate, Madame Justice?
In fairness, Ginsburg didn't say that she endorsed such a policy. However, let's note that she did use the word "we." Second, let's also note that the poster boy for abortion, Planned Parenthood — an organization of which Ginsburg is an ally — was founded by those who wanted to eliminate black babies. Given these two facts, I'd like some elaboration. To whom are you referring exactly, Justice Ginsburg?
If a conservative had made such a statement, how do you think the media would be reporting it? Don't you think they'd want the individual to explain himself? Hey, what's sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander.
WorldNetDaily.com reports on the story here.
© 2009 Selwyn Duke — All Rights Reserved
Posted at 12:40 PM in Feminism, Politics, Snap Commentary, Social Issues | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0)