Archive for March, 2008
"A Dad is More than a Paycheck"
a href=”http://proteinwisdom.com/?p=11621″Protein Wisdom /ais promoting what looks like a very good cause–a href=”http://cycling4children.typepad.com/cycling4childrencom/2008biketrek.html”an Equal Parenting Bike Trek:/abr /br /blockquoteA grueling 758 mile cycling trek to raise awareness of a child’s fundamental right to be loved, guided, educated and nurtured equally by both fit and willing parents. /blockquotebr /br /There is a href=”http://daddy.typepad.com/daddyblog/2007-equal-parenting-bike-trek.html”a news video about /aone of the fathers, Robert Pedersen, who is riding in the bike trek. Pedersen states in the video, “A dad is more than a paycheck.” This is why he is riding to raise awareness of the importance of fathers and the need to change child custody laws–particularly in Michigan. How wonderful. I just sent a small a href=”http://cycling4children.typepad.com/cycling4childrencom/2008biketrek.html”donation/a to help out with this worthy cause. I hope this is just the beginning of men fighting to change laws that are unjust, unfair, and that harm many children who desperately need dads.
Are Guys Really "Clueless" when it Comes to Reading Sexual Cues?
“Yes,” a href=”http://www.livescience.com/health/080320-clueless-guys.html”says an article /a in emLiveScience/em (thanks to the reader who emailed the link): br /br /blockquoteMore often than not, guys interpret even friendly cues, such as a subtle smile from a gal, as a sexual come-on, and a new study discovers why: Guys are clueless. br /br /More precisely, they are somewhat oblivious to the emotional subtleties of non-verbal cues, according to a new study of college students. br /br /”Young men just find it difficult to tell the difference between women who are being friendly and women who are interested in something more,” said lead researcher Coreen Farris of Indiana University’s Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences. /blockquotebr /br /So men are a bunch of oblivious clowns–it’s obvious this is what the staff writer, Jeanna Bryner (or her editor) thinks of men. Take a look at the title: “Clueless guys can’t read women.” But the editors don’t have the last word: A number of the commenters disagree with the tone of the article (as do I). One disgusted guy writes in:br /br /blockquoteNice anti-male gender stereotyping. “Men are clueless.” That’s the sort of thing we’d expect in a radical feminist blog. The suggestion is, men are flawed for their “insensitivity to women’s subtle non-verbal cues.”br /br /Um, could it be that women pick up on details better than men? Women have more developed skills in social communication (while men have more developed skills in other important areas)?br /br /The TONE of your article is nothing short of male bashing — you obviously would not agree or you wouldn’t have written it that. “Men are clueless.”br /br /Ugh!/blockquotebr /br /Another equally dismayed commenter states:br /br /blockquoteOh wow, yet another denegrating article/study about men (guised as science) written by a woman, gee what a surprise. Let me make sure I have this right, it’s men fault for not reading subtle non-verbal clues by women who REFUSE TO BE CLEAR WITH VERBAL COMMUNICATION and it’s somehow a man’s fault? anyone follow this logic? if you do, you’re a woman./blockquotebr /br /If you want to get a handle on where this particular writer, Ms. Bryner, is coming from, take a look at a couple other of her articles in emLiveScience/em. Here’s one entitled, a href=”http://www.livescience.com/health/070619_gender_roles.html”Study Debunks Myth that Women Want Sex Less/a–note the positive title. If a study finds that men want sex, they are called clueless. Another article is entitled, a href=”http://www.livescience.com/health/071009-women-science.html”Why Men Dominate Math and Science Fields/a where ” a climate that is less than fully friendly to women remains, and its texture is often still so taken for granted that it tends to be invisible.” br /br /Of course, maybe it’s not Ms. Bryner. Maybe it’s the headline writers who think that every development has to be given an anti-male spin. Why would that be?
Condi Rice and Her ‘Birth Defect’
Memo to the Secretary of State: You are far too smart and successful to fall into the victimhood trap.
What Do the NY Times and a 12-Year-Old Have in Common?
The NY Times quoted a young Iraqi whose view accurately reflected the paper's own take on events in Basra: "I don't understand it all, but it looks bad to me."
No Politician is Holy – or Unholy
Conservatives have called out worshipful Obama supporters for ignoring their hero's obvious moral flaws. But similar hardheaded criticism can and should be leveled against the right, too.
Are the Al-Dura Critics Anti-Semites?
Can a non-Jewish editor be found guilty of religious defamation for reprinting an article by an Israel Jew? In French court, the answer is yes.
Bill Bradley–Sunday Morning Quarterback
Excerpted from this week’s PJM Political on XM Satellite Radio, host Bill Bradley provides his take on The Week That Was.
March 27th Bill Bradley Interview From PJM Political
Iraq: Whither Sadr and the Mahdi Army?
Fighting rages on in Basra and other Iraqi cities, while some try to forge a compromise between the Iraqi government and Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army. Others, Iraq the Model reports, would like to see the final crackdown on Sadr.
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