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Lastly, some perceive a feminist agenda as informing the current accusations, most of which are made by women against male relatives. In this, the present situation is not analogous to but opposite of that in Salem. There the accused and convicted were almost all women, many of them women with power and property--too much for their own good. The agenda behind the witchcraft trials and executions was ten times as misogynist as the current agenda--if it indeed exists--is feminist. None of today's convicted have hung...
What does it mean to be p.c.? To qualify, one must be pro-feminist, pro-gay rights, pro-minority studies, mistrustful of tradition, scornful of Dead White European Males and deeply skeptical toward the very idea of a "masterpiece," because it implies that one idea, culture or human being can actually be better than another. One must believe in a consumerist approach to education: whatever the student wants is what the curriculum ought to be. Academics must recognize that ignorance of student wishes in favor of one's own scholarly interests is wickedly elitist...
...Szarabajka), a garden-variety psychopath. The convicts terrorize a mother and her children and take seven-year-old Phillip (T.J. Lowther) hostage. Tracking their flight is a Texas Ranger posse led by Eastwood, your basic righteous cowboy emeritus, and sparked by Laura Dern, a Governor's aide who brings feminist compassion and common sense to the pursuit. Bad guys, good guys, vroom-vroom...
...cope. Principle, religious conviction, and conscience should all be discarded if they lead to futile and irresolvable dilemmas. In the abortion stalemate, for example, pragmatism tells pro-lifers to throw out their religious objections to abortion because these arguments are never going to convince any atheist pro-choice feminist to change his mind. And if religious convictions, categorical principles, and tortured consciences happen to go the way of dinosaurs, good riddance: Then it would be easier to get along...
Rejecting the platform of anti-Zionist Islamic militants, Jordanian voters drastically reduced the fundamentalists' seats in parliament -- from 32 to 18 in the 80-member lower house -- and gave King Hussein a large majority to pursue his pro-peace policies. Another notable victor was Toujan Faisal, a strong feminist who will be the first woman to serve in the parliament...