Men are people, and women are people. Treating them like “men” or “women” prevents us from thinking clearly about what they say and do.
Thinking of “men” and “women” as separate tribes will NOT help us understand each other.
The Recall campaign against Judge Persky will undermine judicial independence. It also trivializes the punishment of lifetime sex offender registration for a conviction of attempted rape.
In America, sex is always in the news. (Note: it’s actually not like that in most other countries.)
That news provides a chance for sincere, well-informed people to disagree. But these days, unfortunately, people are using the day’s sex news more as a chance to choose up sides—to define what your opinion means about you and all your other opinions.
~ “I disagree” has been replaced by “You’re misogynist”…
I’ve been writing about Roy Moore for almost fifteen years.
Roy Moore has a 35-year record of political activity and belief that disqualifies him from public office in America.
This has very little to do with his taste for teenage females. And, contrary to what some breathless headlines say, Roy Moore is not a pedophile.
Pedophiles are sexually attracted to PRE-pubescent males and/or females. Every expert in this complex field agrees that a large percentage of pedophiles (probably half or more) NEVER touch a single child inappropriately. As a group, pedophiles are no more powerless over their sexual desires than any other non-psychotic group.
Hugh Hefner, the founder of Playboy magazine, died this week at age 91. He was extraordinarily innovative and influential, and he was reviled by a lot of people for exactly those reasons.
When the 27-year-old Hefner started Playboy in 1953, America was a sexually sick country.
As a lifelong “liberal” it breaks my heart to say this, but “liberals” and “progressives” are making it harder and harder to write about things that matter. Here are examples of facts that I and others hesitate to write about: