thoughts in and out of season
View from the mainstream: Group Says Course Training Still Breaks Along Sex Lines. If girls choose cosmetology and boys plumbing it’s plain common sense that something’s got to be done. And the law by and large backs that up.
And to find out what “diversity” means among those accepted as spokesmen for women, look … More ...
No big surprise: Sex-Ed Programs Not Cutting Risky Behavior. Sex is a matter of what life is and what we are as men and women, not “giving young people the information they need to make responsible choices.” Sex education is an attempted techno-fix for a basic human condition. As such the only surprise is … More ...
Money, the Internet and homosexuality: it all comes together in the electronic world market of everything. Untapped Webizens: Seeking Out the Gay and Lesbian Market deals with the personal importance of the internet to homosexuals, and the importance of both to sellers of expensive cutting-edge consumer goods.
The New York Times refers to a program in North Korea mostly involving compulsory termination of pregnancy as “prison baby killings”. It’s true some of the infants are killed a few seconds after they would have been candidates for death by intact dilation and evacuation—that is, immediately after birth—but the emphasis in the article … More ...
It’s coming thick and fast: Maryland state board of education proposes treating homosexuality as “cultural group” in multicultural programs, and Nickelodeon to present “issue” program on homosexuality so 8-13 year-olds, with the aid of Rosie O’Donnell and Linda Ellerbe, “can have some information and make up their own minds.” Even an 8-year-old, it seems, is … More ...
In spite of Scientific American’s confirmation of the obvious, that men and women are quite different, the presumption remains that the government should manange the differences out of existence. Witness these stories: “French Politics Finds Little Room for Women” (some male incumbants won’t stand down to make room for women) and Earnings of British … More ...
Scientific American bites the bullet: in spite of their generally left-wing orientation, they’re chosen Sex Differences in the Brain as a feature article. The article plays it straight summarizing the findings of recent research, even reporting as a possibility Richard Lynn’s suggestion that female IQs are lower.
I’d prefer other topics too, but mainstreaming homosexuality seems to be what’s happening: children’s book features gay boy. The book has a 10-year-old protagonist, and “[w]hile it contains some sex, it is not graphic and is not a dominant theme.” Like I said, mainstreaming—it’s no big deal. In theory a sequel could include a … More ...
It all comes together in one story: Dearth of Women in Europe’s Top Science Jobs: Report. The story touches on the EU, human rights, an “expert group” and the fate of science in liberal society, and even includes a idiotic quote from the EU Research Commissioner: “A better balance of the sexes in scientific … More ...
A sensible discussion by Maggie Gallagher of what is at stake with “gay marriage”. Nothing new or dazzling, but why are so many people so oblivious to these points? (My own anwer, of course, is that their metaphysics doesn’t let the issues arise no matter what the facts.)