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Play Ball, Girls!

Finally, the media takes notice of women’s sports but it takes being a finalist in the Women’s World Cup for it to happen. And even then you had to have cable TV to see the game on ESPN.  Women’s sports has come a long way, partly due to Title IX, but it still has a […]

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Power, Politics, and Polarization

Fed up with the polarization and posturing in Congress, many people opted to vote out the old and vote in the new in hopes of changing the game. Voting out women, however, is not going to help solve these problems. This is the first decline in women represented in Congress since 1978. Scores of countries […]

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The Land of the Free and the Home of the Care-less?

 What do tea baggers, big banks, and the followers of Westboro Baptist Church have in common? A stunted view of morality.  The Tea party waves the flag of individual freedom, personal liberty, free market, and espouses the inalienable rights of individuals.  Westboro Baptist Church feels it has the undeniable right to picket military funerals and […]

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On Being a Man

In the book The Wimp Factor, psychologist Stephen Ducat wrote that the most important thing about being a man is not being a woman. Psychologist William Pollack echoed the same sentiment in his book Real Boys: Rescuing our sons from the myths of boyhood where he writes “being masculine is defined as avoiding the feminine. […]

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Why do we listen to hypocrites?

Pardon me, but I just have to get this off my chest.  George Rekers, who believes therapy can and needs to turn gays straight and testifies as an expert against gay adoptions, gets caught returning from a trip in Europe with a 20-year-old escort from Rentaboy.com.   Why isn’t he in therapy?  Ted Haggard, who backed […]

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Mama Grizzlies or Grizzly Mamas?

Meg Whitman tapped as the Republican nominee for Governor, Republican Carly Fiorina to challenge Barbara Boxer for her Senate seat, and Republican  Nikki Haley possibly becoming the first non-white female governor of South Carolina. All Sarah Palin endorsed mama grizzlies. Or are they grizzly mamas?  It’s great to see women running for public office and […]

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Stand up for what you're worth

One thing that will be a given in the era of women is not only equal pay for equal work, but that work associated with the feminine like child care, the arts, nursing, education will be properly paid. It is stunning that this is still an issue and women are still paid considerably less than […]

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