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What happens to women who have shunned men and consequently shot themselves in the... not foot... well... let's just say they don't get any love. Man haters have cooked their own gooses. But they don't cook either. Oops. Hmmmm. Man haters have cleaned their own clocks. Oh Darn. They don't clean. Okay. Let's try again. Apparently the housekeeping analogies don't work with this subject. Man haters have shot their... nope. That doesn't work. Let's just say that man hating women are S. O. L. Does that work? Man hating women have created so much inner hated for the traditional and...

When I attended a California State University, there was a requirement that students take a semester course in women's or cultural studies. I took women's history in the vain hope that it would focus on the history of suffrage, women's accomplishments, etc. No such luck. It was every bit the granola-breath nightmare I'd been warned about by

As students settle in to their classes at Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa., there is good news and bad on the academic front. First, the former because it will take less time than the latter, although the more positive update is not inconsiderable. “On May 20, 2006, President [Brian C.] Mitchell not only attended the ROTC commissioning ceremony, but also spoke movingly about the value of both the ROTC program and our military,” the staff of The Counterweight wrote. “While those outside of academia might see such an act as commonplace, it is anything but.” “When even Bucknell’s own course...

It was parents' orientation at my son's new college when the young co-ed introduced her academic pursuit as "Women's Studies." My son and I sat stone-faced, desperately trying to hold back the smirks we knew would reveal our thoughts about the absurdity of such an "intellectual, academic" pursuit.  "Where are the degrees in 'Men's Studies'?" I wanted to ask. Of course, there aren't any. Only the pro-lesbian, egocentric, sexually perverse "Women's Studies" majors and minors are considered politically correct. The clear bigotry and plain ridiculousness of such classes, and the messages they send our college men and women, seemed lost...

Not too long ago I wrote an article entitled Women’s MisStudies about a debate between Professor Mike Adams of University of North Carolina-Wilmington and Dean Gay L. Gullickson of University of Maryland College Park. The debate was over Women’s Studies programs and Women’s Resource Centers. Included in my article was this passage: “I was able to ask Gullickson how she can say that women’s studies is good for research when, as Carrie Lukas points out in her new book The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism, these texts have misinformation and missing information that women need to make...

Women more likely to be perpetrators of abuse as well as victims Filed under Research, Education, Family, Law, Gender on Thursday, July 13, 2006. GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Women are more likely than men to stalk, attack and psychologically abuse their partners, according to a University of Florida study that finds college women have a new view of the dating scene. “We’re seeing women in relationships acting differently nowadays than we have in the past,” said Angela Gover, a UF criminologist who led the research. “The nature of criminality has been changing for females, and this change is reflected in intimate...

From a recent debate on college-level women’s studies courses, we get a glimpse of why graduates with that degree are hard to find, though such classes have become commonplace in most universities. “I’ve been waiting a long time to learn what a women’s studies degree does. My guess is it qualifies you for a future teaching women’s studies,” said Professor Mike Adams of University of North Carolina at Wilmington as the students laughed loudly and applauded the debaters. After a lengthy historical explanation of how women’s studies arose from women’s movements which were birthed by civil rights movements of blacks,...

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction, as campus women’s studies centers will discover as they continue their abortion rights advocacy activities. “We are going to win,” pro-life activist Janet Folger said at the 13th Annual Eagle Forum Summit on Capitol Hill recently. Ms. Folger mixed advice and anecdotes in her remarks on the fight against abortion in America. She told stories about her battles for the pro-life movement, including a recent trip to South Dakota, sneaking into a NARAL party and even protesting Michael Dukakis’s visit to the housing complex where she lived in 1988. When...

Feminist professors go ballistic when observers such as your humble correspondent report that the constituency they are appealing to finds women’s studies irrelevant, if not ridiculous. “Does the typical woman graduating from college have the information she needs to make decisions that will improve her chances for long-term health and happiness?,” the Independent Women’s Forum’s Carrie Lukas asked in a recent column in The Washington Examiner. “Probably not.” “Chances are she’s been given a lot of bad information—much of it in the name of political correctness.” Lukas, author of The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex, and Feminism, will speak...

The feminist revolution did more than make equality for women a reality; it helped create and spread misinformation on subjects affecting women’s decision-making. The new book, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Women, Sex and Feminism, aims to correct many of these lies and provide women with the facts they need to know to make decisions that will ensure their happiness, according to author Carrie L. Lukas. Lukas is the Vice President of Policy at the Independent Women’s Forum in Washington, D.C. as well as a senior fellow at the Goldwater Institute and a contributing writer to National Review Online. But...

American conservatives fear that Harriet Miers, the Supreme Court nominee, is a politically unreliable feminist who cannot be trusted with a lifetime appointment to the nation’s highest court. Behind the attacks on her supposed lack of experience, intellect and judgment lies the suspicion that she is not a true Republican. Laura Bush, the first lady, has suggested sexism may be to blame for the attacks on her, but conservative women have been as critical as men. The White House is resisting pressure to withdraw her nomination and is to step up the charm offensive on her behalf this week. But...

It has far fewer campus chapters than NOW, but a fledgling group called NeW is mounting a cultural challenge to the National Organization for Women and joining a growing attack on the progressive culture of U.S. universities. ___ WASHINGTON, D.C. (WOMENSENEWS)--"Out with the NOW, in with the NeW!" That is the motto of the Network of Enlightened Women (NeW), a fledgling college group in Virginia that wants to change the campus culture of feminism and challenge the agenda of groups such as the National Organization for Women, which has more than 100 official and unofficial campus chapters in the nation....

I recently came across an article sporting the irresistible title, A Nation of Little Princesses. Author Christopher Healy explores the archetype of the princess, which he asserts “is one of the longest-lived in all of literary history.” [www.freepress.net/news/print.php?id=5557] My first reaction was to think, “Here’s some Neanderthal guy trying to peddle outdated gender stereotypes.” But Healy points to the fact that the Disney Corporation has assembled a Princess brand consisting of eight animated film heroines including Cinderella, Snow White, Pocahontas, Belle of Beauty of the Beast, and others. In 2003 the Princess line racked up an astonishing $2.5 billion in...

Call for Papers: Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets Editors: Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts-Amherst) Barbara Penner (University College-London) "You know what they say about men who hang around women's lavatories. They're asking to have their illusions shattered." - Georgina to Albert, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover We invite contributions for the edited collection Toilet Papers: The Gendered Construction of Public Toilets. Public toilets are amenities with a functional, even a civic, purpose. Yet they also act as the unconscious of public spaces. They can be a haven: a place to regain composure, to...

Women's studies courses at colleges and universities teach misinformation and give bad advice, says a study by the Independent Women's Forum (IWF). In these classes, the report says, female empowerment is a project advanced by casual sex in a world without marriage and male dependence.

Perspective from Another Planet - A Strange Take on Stay-at-Home Moms Note: This commentary was delivered by Prison Fellowship President Mark Earley. Gretchen Ritter, a women's studies professor at the University of Texas, has a problem with stay-at-home moms—actually, several problems. Stay-at-home motherhood, she explains, is bad for men, women, and children alike. It damages our society as a whole and makes lesbian mothers feel bad. Ritter made all these charges in an opinion piece titled, "The messages we send when moms stay home," published in the Austin American-Statesman. The diatribe was her attempt at starting what she called "an...

When I recently had the pleasure of meeting Dr. Jay Bergman of Central Connecticut State University (CCSU), I couldn’t help but wonder, what’s a nice guy like this doing teaching in a school like that? When he complained in a letter to the local newspaper about the lack of intellectual diversity at CCSU, he cited as an example the day-long forum on slavery reparations in the United States held by the African Studies Program (ASP). Dr. Bergman pointed out that the same department was entirely mute on the subject of the enslavement of Africans by Africans taking place to this...

<p>She's a feminist. I am sure her beliefs about babies made the dirty deed a little easier.</p>

Tuesday, September 17, 2002 Activist, ex-fugitive Angela Davis helps teach U of L class By Gideon Gil The Courier-Journal A scholar in residence at the University of Louisville this fall, Angela Davis has some credentials that are rare for a college teacher. She's a professor of the history of consciousness at the University of California-Santa Cruz and she's an alumnus of the FBI's 10-most-wanted list. Davis landed on the fugitive list in 1970, after guns she had bought were used by a member of the Black Panther Party in a California courthouse shootout in which a judge and two prison...

The university professor began the first class of the semester by announcing that she was an "anti-imperialist, anti-heterosexist Marxist-feminist." She read us the famous quote from Robin Morgan, the leading feminist and former editor of Ms. Magazine, who said "kill your fathers, not your mothers."  Seeing the students' shocked faces, she added "Kill is too strong.  Hate your fathers, not your mothers."  I guess she was a moderate. One of the male students in the class, obviously feeling chastised, said the defense I've heard young men say hundreds of times--"don't blame us for what happened to women in the...