In this column I pose questions and raise issues. I don't always agree with the conclusion, implied or stated. The purpose is to put a slightly different spin on each item and to promote discussion.
- If fatherhood is so important, why do men have to pay to be fathers, and why do they have to fight for the right to parent their children?
- In my experience, white women perpetrate most of the covert racism in the workplace.
- Sunni Maravillosa suggests that if the government begins compensating women for being mothers, soon women will be required to obtain a license to have children.
- If modern chemicals are loading the bodies of western men with so-called "environmental estrogens," what will be the consequences of colognes that make men with high blood serum estrogen levels smell good to women?
- Has feminism lost what the union movement gained: a true 40-hour work week?
- Whether it's testosterone motivating men to drive macho-mobiles and butt heads with one another, or estrogen driving women to form cliques and get breast implants, it's all the same.
- Overpopulation became a prominent issue during the 1970s following the publication of a flawed report sponsored by the Club of Rome. Despite the report's flaws, when E.F. Schumacher popularized these issues with his book, Small is Beautiful, millions of baby boomers decided to have no children at all, or to limit the number of children they had, with the result that the only thing keeping America's population from shrinking is immigration.
- In my observation, few white women date Asian or Chicano men.
- The Fashion industry is dominated by models, aging women and gay men, so why do women pay any attention to them? Whatever the reason, it has little if anything to do with heterosexual men's tastes or male oppression of women, else runway models would have twinkling come-hither eyes, normal breasts and the hips of a healthy adult.
- What most women call "manly" pop feminists call abusive. That wouldn't matter but for the fact that, when convenient, many women will fall back on the pop feminist definition to get their way in court.
- How is abortion in the best interests of the child?
- Recently, my mother pointed out that before Affirmative Action, if you saw a person of color in a position of responsibility or authority, you respected them because you knew they were the best. Now, thanks to Affirmative Action, the competence of a person of color in a position of authority or responsibility is suspect. It's not the person, but the political policy.
- People with Alzheimer's Syndrome experience epiphanies daily.
- Studies about racial characteristics should not be about politics. If genetic studies indicate that, biologically, Belgians are bullheaded while Swedes are scientific, or that Blacks are gregarious while Fins are reserved, so what? That has nothing to do with their political rights in America. Nor should it be allowed to limit their choices and opportunities. Just as our sensitivity to the imposition of such limitations should not blind us to the differences. To the contrary, we should, as they used to say when I was a youngster, "celebrate the differences."
- The only thing "illegal" most of the WTO protesters did during the November, 1999, "battle in Seattle," was refuse to obey the police.
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