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There are two categories of children predominantly likely to be the victim of sex offenders: The Unattended and The Pleasers. The former category being children raised in broken homes, troubled conditions, foster care, moved around, unsupervised or unmonitored, or particularly left alone to fend for themselves, perhaps even on the …
Steven Soderbergh had the temerity this past week to wonder aloud if the full-court rage of the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements might not create the blowback effect of men tacitly agreeing that women as a group are inherently a danger to employ: ‘My fear is that, men being men, going …
Muslims don’t like Jews. Jews don’t cotton much to Muslims either, but since there are 13 or 14 million Jews on the planet, and 1.8 billion Muslims, the 150:1 ratio makes the former more objectively concerning. Muslims don’t like Christians for that matter, though there’s no a specific Christian State …
The past year’s Women’s Marches, in conjunction with fallout hashtags MeToo and Time’s Up, have been almost entirely fronted by wealthy Hollywood actresses and music industry celebrities. A splash of above-the-line wealthy female producers and agents have been added to the mix. Color shouldn’t matter, unless you’re anointing yourself a …
The hordes of Hollywood who will tell you from the verandas of their third homes that they are being unfairly paid are conversely orgasmically convulsing at news that Ellen Pompeo has become the highest paid actor on television at $20 million a year plus mega-backend cash. She’s a woman. The …
By way of quick refresher course, Margaret Atwood is the feminist Canadian author who hates men and the United States in equal measure. Enough so that she penned the quintessential anti-American male tome in the early 80’s, The Handmaid’s Tale. The story depicts a not so distant future United States …
Most rational Western people would grant you that raping a preteen child is a worse crime than paying Jennifer Lawrence fourteen million for a movie role while her male co-star receives eighteen million. Yet the public outcry, media coverage, and social outrage for the latter exceeds the former by many …
After eleven days of deep contemplation and number crunching, the risk management team at Google declared YouTube entertainer Logan Paul to be in Coventry. This in response to the response to his YouTube video featuring a dead Japanese guy swinging dead from a tree as key prop in his latest …
Nobody cared about Olivia Nova. Even likely her family, given that she entered the porn world as soon as she was legally able. That’s not a choice made by a young woman with a level head or clearly visible better options, let alone one was hugged and congratulated often by …
For all the minor infractions of abuse of power and sexual misconduct in Hollywood, elevated to a Killing Fields decorative pin and black Versace wearing wealthy actresses, there are real, sinister, heinous crimes that happen against the meek in the town, and largely underreported. You may have valid questions to …