“A group of religious conservatives listed nearly a dozen Bible passages in an amicus brief filed with the Supreme Court” on Wednesday, October 9, 2024, in a case involving gender-affirming health care bans, Huffington Post reported (here). The Christian Bible is the world’s most p[...]
Posts Tagged ‘gender politics’
December 15th, 2018 - 10:36 am § in Hypocrisy
Do Women Have Women’s Rights?
Making a judgement that social mores must be discarded to have equality seems to me to be a bad choice. Equality of rights for men and women can not ignore the reality of biological differences in life cycle. Knut, We were talking about the Harvard report. You and I agee, that the study of union [[...]
June 28th, 2018 - 11:48 am § in Hypocrisy, Schools & Colleges
What if Girls Are Not so Good At Programming?
A UW instructor in comp sci recently got flamed on for raising the possibility that women are less good at math and comp sci. Stuart Reges’own Chair lashed out saying that such an idea violated the Dept’s commitment to training women. As a scientist and, hopefully as a rational human, [...]
AFTER TRUMP: Proving your gender
LAMENTS OF A TALL LADY Reidun MacGregor FACEBOOK Boy oh boy is my birth certificate going to come in handy. I will need it as I am profiled due to my name and I will need it as a tall 5’11” flat chested woman with large hands and feet so I can prove I have a […][...]
January 20th, 2017 - 12:52 pm § in Misc.
Oh oh .. I agree with Ben Carson
Taking the majority’s rights of privacy away is as wrong as forcing compliance on the 3/1000 people estimated to be transgender. <me> Speaking to the Florida delegation at the RNC , Carson insisted that biology trumps gender identity: I got to tell you: For thousands of years, mankind [...]
CIRQUE DU SOLEI CANCELS NORTH CAROLINA SHOWS OVER PUBLIC FACILITIES ACT… PLANS SHOWS IN DUBAI, WHERE GAYS ARE PUT TO DEATH…[...] March 16th, 2016 - 4:14 am § in America
Girly Women Make Better PolItical Candidates
Women with more feminine faces do better at the hustings Washington, May 16 – Researchers have highlighted voters’ perception of traditional femininity, political competence. According to the Dartmouth College-led study, female politicians’ success can be predicted by their facial [...]
COMBAT AS PART OF VALENTINES DAY
Send a Valentines’ Day cards tp Afghanistan? Can we send our girls in combat boxes of chocolates? Of course part of this story is a change in the definition of combat. A 5′ 2″ lady is likely as agile driving a HUMVEE or “manning” a sniper rifle as any Schwarzenegger. Is[...]