Harvey Weinstein and the Politics of Hollywood
There is something truly exasperating about digesting the steady flow of horror stories relating to Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein. In part, of course, it is because the reports that Weinstein...
View ArticleIs the Future Female?
My friend, Hwee Yee, shared an article I wrote recently on the paradigm of sexism from Harvey Weinstein and beyond. She commented on the irony of her mentor constantly referring to the future being...
View ArticleMy Fate as a Social Worker Sealed by a Vaccine named Gardasil
Largest U.S. Charities for 2016, with private donations received — #37. Planned Parenthood Federation of America, $354 million. I’m writing about this paid forced paid leave (suspension, administrative...
View ArticleThe Simulacra Democracy
… a nation in which 87 percent of eighteen- to twenty-four year olds (according to a 2002 National Geographic Society/Roper Poll survey) cannot locate Iran or Iraq on a world map and 11 percent cannot...
View ArticleGood Guys and Bad Guys
I am not as abusive as Harvey Weinstein, nor as narcissistic as Bill O’Reilly. I’m more respectful to women than Donald Trump, and not as sleazy as Anthony Weiner. Judged by the standards set by these...
View ArticleA City on a Hill, or The Weinstein Effect
Freed from the sublimated form which was the very token of its irreconcilable dreams—a form which is the style, the language in which the story is told—sexuality turns into a vehicle for the...
View ArticleThe Weinstein (Company) Effect: Only Women Need Apply
Birds flying high you know how I feel Sun in the sky you know how I feel Breeze driftin’ on by you know how I feel And this old world is a new world And a bold world For me And I’m feeling good I’m...
View ArticleLife without Limits: The Delusions of Technological Fundamentalism
In a routinely delusional world, what is the most dangerous delusion? Living in the United States, I’m tempted to focus on the delusion that the United States is the greatest nation in the history of...
View ArticleEnsuring Female Representation
Has Democracy Failed Women? by Drude Dahlerup challenges conventional wisdom that Greece was the birthplace of democracy, as it totally excluded women from participation in the political process. The...
View ArticleWhy We Need to Say Sex, Not Gender
Since May of this year, every website in the EU has had to update its terms and conditions since earlier this year to include a GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) tick box for all visitors,...
View ArticleIn The Eye of the Beholder: USA History of Imprisoning Women Politicals
I was born a protester … My mother had to go to the school a lot and talk to the principal. — Dorli Rainey (In conversation with author Paul Haeder) I am being jailed because I have advocated change...
View ArticleDisagreeing Reasonably in a Complex World
In my last couple years of university teaching before retiring, I repeated two catch phrases as often as possible—“reasonable people can disagree” and “if two things are both true, then both are...
View ArticleThe Oppressive State Is a Macho Rapist
On 25 November 1960, three of four of the Mirabal sisters – María Teresa, Minerva, and Patria – of the Dominican Republic were assassinated for their resistance against the dictatorship of Rafael...
View ArticleWestern “Political Correctness” does not make all people equal
In the West, there is a new wave of political correctness at work: it is all about one’s sexual orientation; who has sex with whom, and how. Suddenly, the mass media in London, Paris and New York is...
View ArticleFemicide Does Not Respect the Quarantine
Days, weeks, months, an indeterminate amount of time as the world seems paralysed by the journey of SARS-CoV-2. The lack of certainty increases the anxiety. This virus, as Arundhati Roy writes, ‘seeks...
View ArticleWhat is Gender?
Gender is one of the most fundamental stories humans have created. It is a story about each one of us that begins being told even before we are born. It intersects with other aspects of our personal...
View ArticleAn Interview with: “A simple boy from the prairie”
When a European graduate student emailed to ask if I would participate in an assignment to “do an interview with one of my favourite authors,” I said yes. My books have not exactly been best-sellers,...
View ArticleLeft-Wing Psychotherapy Cults: Sullivanians from Hedonism to Group Terror
Photo Image: FilmDaily Orientation My Purpose A few months ago, I wrote an article titled “Political and Spiritual Cults“. My purpose was to show the commonalties among all cults, whether they are...
View ArticleMaking Sense of Sex and Gender
A few months after I had written an article critiquing the ideology of the transgender movement, a comrade from a progressive group told me he wanted to understand why I was challenging trans...
View ArticleWomen Everywhere in the World Are Squeezed into a Tight Corner
Sandra Eleta (Panama), La servidumbre, 1978-79. Between 30 June and 2 July 2021, the United Nations and other multilateral organisations held the Generation Equality Forum in Paris (France). The forum...
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