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Male Bonding at an All-Female College

A group of biologically female good ol"€™ boys gathers every week at Oakland's girls-only Mills College to discuss how oppressed they feel by gender-specific pronouns. These dudes call the group Mouthing Off!, and every week's ...

Shulamith Firestone

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Feminism’s Rotting Corpse

I was certain I still had my copy of the book on the same shelf as my long-untouched copies of The Second Sex, The Female Eunuch, and The Feminine Mystique. After learning of the death last week of Shulamith Firestone, author of 1970's ...

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Digging Up My Roots With a Cyber-Shovel

In The Odyssey, Theoclymenus asks of Telemachus, "€œAmong men, who are you? Tell me also of your city and parents."€ Old-fashioned folks who haven’t been poisoned by the current age will ask similar questions. The answers are ...

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A Writer’s Life

"€˜Never heard of you..."€™. What generosity of spirit.  Some thirteen years ago now, the fellow had marched across a busy airport departure hall in order to deliver his crushing verdict.  He entered the bookstore in ...

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Missing: British Identity

"€œThis is our country, our land, and our lifestyle. If you are not happy"€”then Leave."€ At last a politician in possession of testicles and a backbone. By definition then, not possibly a British parliamentarian. The words were ...

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All You Need Is… A Slap

"€œMake a child smile"€”kill a counselor."€ A passable joke and an admirable sentiment. Face it, a kid cannot even fart these days without being offered counseling or Ritalin. We are enfeebled by prevailing victim culture, ...

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Southern With a Vengeance

I’m often asked where I got the name “Southern Avenger.” For starters, it was a rip-off of a popular 90’s conservative talk radio host named Ken Hamblin, who called himself the “Black Avenger.” In a ...


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