True. And not long at all since Ms. Pizzey said American women are "the most aggressive and dangerous women ... in the world."
"Fact: Domestic violence is the leading cause of injury to women, causing more injuries than muggings, stranger rapes, and car accidents combined."
Their source, Surgeon General Antonia Novello, never said that. What she did say, is that "One study found violence to be... the leading cause of injury to women ages 15 through 44 years."
"Fact: In the U.S., almost four million women are beaten by male partners every year."
This is based on the 1993 Harris/Commonwealth Fund survey which, "to arrive at the figure of four million for physical abuse," as author Christina Hoff Sommers notes in Who Stole Feminism?, is biased: "the survey used the simple expedient of ignoring the distinction between minor and severe violent acts, counting all acts of violence as abuse." Pushing, grabbing, shoving and slapping were all included. By that definition, is there a man alive who hasn't been "beaten" by a woman?
Better get your facts straight, ladies, or we might begin to suspect you're nothing more than lunatic fringe flakes.
Good thing she never had to go into combat. "Don't let any nasty enemies shoot at me, or I'll sue!"
Right, Paula, and what about the draftees shot to bits in Vietnam? How much do you think they should get for losing body parts?
Roberts goes on to note that "black college-educated women have made such financial strides since 1980 that many now earn as much or more than white women with similar education and similar work experience."
Since it's men oppressing women when men earn more than women, does this mean that among the college-educated, black women are now oppressing white women?
While we're happy for Mrs. Harbury, the two cases serve to demonstrate how little the American media values men.
So she killed her sons for the sake of her lover. Maybe it's true. So what? It doesn't matter.
But before we go on a witch hunt, let's put this into perspective: A couple of weeks before Smith confessed, Bellevue, Washington resident Ken Westmark took his two sons into the garage, sat them down in the family car, started the car, and attempted a murder-suicide.
"Attempted" because he survived. His wife, who had recently decided to file for divorce, came home to find them in the garage. The boys were dead, and he was in a coma.
Both Westmark and Smith committed egregious crimes, and their motives, while pertinent in other contexts, are irrelevant to justice. Or to the four little boys who died.
Most women I know have as bawdy a sense of humor as any man, and if Professor Hill's ears really are that delicate, then maybe she's living in the wrong century. Maybe she belongs in the ultra-patriarchal Victorian era, when vaporous creatures like her were confined to protective pedestal where they could swoon in safety.
Look, ladies, if you can't stand the heat, go back to the kitchen and leave the real world to grown ups. We don't have time for your vapors.
Well, excuuuuuuse me! And will the writers explain why men can't have secrets, but women can?
Enough of this groveling. If sexist sows don't like that men can have secrets, too, then it's just too damn bad.
Somebody's pulled off one hell of a con.
But Ms. Faulkner, once in, wants to exempt herself from the rules. All cadets heads are shaved on entrance, the usual male way of removing individual differences: essentially a rite of passage. Faulkner asked the court to be exempt from that because it would further "stigmatize" her.
The Citadel attorneys pointed out the obvious contradiction: she wants to be treated like men, but she doesn't want to be treated like men.
This young woman "just doesn't get it." The military is a machine designed to make men follow orders unto their death. It is not just a good school with pretty uniforms and cute traditions. The military deals in death, and Faulkner needs to realize this quickly.
Columnist Ellen Goodman took Faulkner's side, arguing for female choice sans responsibility, as feminists often do. When are feminists going to grow up?
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