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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 …
It’s not a morally odd thing for a woman to use a surrogate to gestate a child. Though the laudability wane when the purpose is to save stretch marks and the trouble of weight gan upon your half-naked selfie professional endeavors. There is little difference in the veracity level of …
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 …
There comes a moment in every social cause and political crusade when it’s time to earnestly answer the question — have we become the bigger offenders in this battle? Nobody starts a civil rights movement with the intent of trampling the basic civil rights of so many others. The same …
The female equivalent of the irritating male bro bandwagon culture are the perpetually outraged butch haired feminist writers lining the streets of magazine outlet Manhattan and the pressed juice bars therein. Both encased in bubbles of their own making, an orthodoxy without any evidence of outcome success. Moira Donegan outed …
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 …