Word: cohenable
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...thought passed through my mind: men don’t do this. Men don’t take a tragedy like last week and selfishly twist it into some kind of ammunition for a personal agenda. A few dozen men may have attacked the World Trade Center, but Cohen seems to conveniently ignore the hundreds of male rescue workers who died trying to save their neighbors, or the thousands of men of the armed services who may make the ultimate sacrifice trying to make this world a safer place...
...Cohen criticizes our president’s response, but does she need a history lesson on the “hairy-backed war tactics” of Golda Meir in the Yom Kippur War of 1973? She responded with force, as she had to. So may President George W. Bush, as he may have to. Sometimes, the correct action of the state involves the use of force. Gender has nothing to do with...
...first planned stop was Hillel where Rabbi Sharon Cohen-Anisfeld addressed the challenges that face Americans in view of the tragedy...
...almost a directly opposing response: if men are savage brutes, controlled by their hormonal and emotional status and tempered only by women, then women are by nature incapable of anything in the realm of aggressiveness. Isn’t this just as blatantly sexist an assumption as the one Cohen displays...
...Cohen should rethink her disgust with the male half of her own species. Individual responsibility cannot be masked behind a blind attempt to resolve her motives for peace through sexism. We do need compassion and caring solidarity. But instilling a mentality that women are so more morally superior is not constructive in that respect...