Written on 4 Oct, 2012 at 7:47 in
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Paul Tuns Because they tell us a lot about her critics. A great column by the Toronto Sun's Lorrie Goldstein which begins:
The ferocity of the attack on Status of Women Minister Rona Ambrose for voting in favour of a Conservative MP’s motion to study the question of when human life legally begins is not only absurd, it says a lot about the attackers.
Although Goldstein favours maintaining Canada's abortion license he skewers the pro-abortion lobby that finds Ambrose's position of ... (Continue reading)
Written on 13 Sep, 2012 at 11:08 in
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Paul Tuns S.E. Cupp in the Daily News:
Last week, after the women of the Democratic National Convention had finished making their pitches for more government assistance to help further their sexual liberation, I took to Twitter to shed a collective tear.
“Feminism weeps,” I wrote, “as (Sandra) Fluke and other DNC women get on their metaphorical knees to beg for government to take care of them.”
For all that first- and second-wave feminism did to empower women, ... (Continue reading)
Written on 4 Sep, 2012 at 10:53 in
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Paul Tuns Gregg Easterbrook writes a football column for ESPN interspersed with political and cultural commentary. In his NFL predictions column (written in haiku), he has this tidbit on what he calls "après-feminism" that is appearing in dead-tree version of The Atlantic Monthly:
Then this year came "Why Women Still Can't Have It All," a cover by Anne-Marie Slaughter, a Princeton dean and recent State Department official. Slaughter filled 14 magazine pages with angst about how ... (Continue reading)
