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.

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• Are girls better students than boys, or are American schools better suited to girls than boys?
• We may indeed be in a post-feminist period, but the damage done by their extreme misandry stains every thread in the social fabric as malignantly and deeply as the misogyny they condemned.
• Despite sensitivity to the issues of date rape and sexual harassment, many women still expect men to respond to subtle signals that are not only subject to many interpretations, but that women can deny they ever gave.
• Existence of a thriving American middle class depends in large part on a balance between corporate and union power.
• What do feminists call a sensitive man? "Sexual harasser."
• What do most women call a sensitive man? "Friend."
• Many women love what they think they can turn a man into, not the man himself.
• On September 16th, the day the WB premiered Everwood, Seattle Times columnist Kay McFadden dismissed the show as smug and confusing. Her chief complaint? That Treat Williams' character, Dr. Andrew Brown, puts fatherhood front and center. Kind of like the male chauvinists back in the 1970s who denigrated shows that put mothers front and center.
  
• American Indians do not have special rights, as so many believe, but, just as any heir to an inheritance, reserved rights.
• Republicans march under the pro-entrepreneur (read: producer) banner, while Democrats march under the pro-people (read: consumer) banner, but as author William Greider has demonstrated over and over again, most notably in Who Will Tell The People? The Betrayal Of American Democracy, both parties belong to the multinational corporations.
• In a band of chimpanzees, a feral child would be the weakest link.
• Several women have told me that when it comes to relationships, all that men want is what they can't have. What they mean by this is, sex with some particular woman, but in practice what it means is, love.
• Part of the feminist strategy has been to characterize women as superlative communicators, and to stereotype men as uncommunicative thugs. Simultaneously, they have managed to impose ever increasing legal and employment penalties on men who attempt to communicate with uncommunicative women.
• How can women who are offended by male attention and humor, jocularity, familiarity and brooding sensitivity, still expect men to love them?
• During or shortly after puberty as they become aware of the importance of the opposite sex, most people become self-conscious. But only the feminists turn this into a political battle cry.
• A staunch Republican told me that far more trouble is caused by people who take offense than by those who give offense.
• The official poverty level for the U.S. could almost be based on the average income of a pre-industrial third world nation.
• In October the Washington Traffic Safety Commission in Washington state announced a new campaign: "Drive Hammered, Get Nailed." Given the sexual connotation of "getting nailed," we might wonder how many horny young people will interpret that to mean, "drive drunk, get laid."
• Even wolves howl at the moon.
• "If men could get pregnant abortion would be a sacrament"? That's like saying, if women could get "blue balls," rape would be a sacrament. Both are disgusting, but at least the latter serves to expose the hatred and bigotry of the feminist slogan.
• The major failing of Ross Perot's efforts to launch the Reform Party was that he trusted voters to make rational choices. His campaign would have been more effective had he hired an advertising agency to promote his message with slick, emotionally powerful ads.
• From personal experience I know that while mental health practitioners seem almost eager to diagnose women as clinically depressed, they are reluctant to diagnose men as clinically depressed. The question is, why?
• According to right wing types, household income has gone up. And they're right, during the past 20 years household income has gone up. But 20 years ago the typical household income was earned by only one person, while today it typically takes two or more.
• Are so many more women than men diagnosed with depression because the cost to society of diagnosing millions of men with depression would be too great?
• Imposing price caps on prescription drugs is bad, according to drug companies. Better to the let the marketplace decide what prices we will pay. But this ignores that the pharmaceutical companies operate in a market where consumers' choices are strictly regulated. Consequently, even though no single drug manufacturer has a monopoly, under FDA regulations the industry as a whole functions like a monopoly. Hence, either price caps should be imposed, or consumers should be given all the choices a real market has to offer.
• Children diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder might actually be experiencing posttraumatic stress disorder.
• If a woman fears a man, then according to feminists he made her afraid and it's his fault. But if a man is afraid of a woman, then he's "intimidated" because he's sexist, and that's his fault.
• Ignoring how the use of modern technologies drove many whale populations to the brink of extinction, Japan opposes the international ban on whaling. A sensible compromise would lift the ban but impose limits and require all whalers to employ traditional, pre-industrial tools, techniques and vessels.