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Some women are uncomfortable with this approach, arguing that it’s unfair to assume women are the ones who are going to be placed in this inferior position. But at the same time, the attitude of these dissenters is self-defeating. The “She’s a smart, confident woman. She’ll tell him exactly what she wants and have no problem setting limits” approach can and does hurt the very people it’s trying to help because it does not take into account the social pressures facing women...
...society should aspire to that goal, but the fact of the matter is that we have a long way to go. It is still assumed by many Americans—the Harvard community included—that in social situations even strong, confident women should occupy a position inferior and subservient to that of their male counterparts. Countering the vulnerable position women are placed in at parties is an issue that extends far beyond feminism and gender equality...
...would pay eight dollars to watch Jesus get brutally tortured for two hours or why you’d want to sit in a loud stadium and watch cars drive around in circles. They regard Middle America as fly-over country—a place full of misguided, intellectually inferior people. This failure to fully engage Middle America is what allowed John Kerry to lose what should have been an easily winnable election...
...DIED. RICHARD G. BUTLER, 86, founder of the white-supremacist group Aryan Nations; in Hayden, Idaho. Butler, who developed his racist ideology after witnessing the caste system while in India during World War II, became a high priest of white hate, preaching that blacks were inferior and Jews evil. His movement spawned chapters in a dozen states and contacts around the globe but was effectively bankrupted by a $6.3 million lawsuit in 2001 filed by a woman and her son who were assaulted by Aryan Nations guards outside Butler's Idaho compound...
...Claude Rains was over the gambling at Humphrey Bogart's joint in Casablanca back in the halcyon days of American idealism [June 21]. It's obvious that what went on in Abu Ghraib and Guant?namo was not the result of the actions of a few bad apples of inferior rank but a calculated policy formed in the upper reaches of the Bush Administration. How did we sink so low? Liberals and conservatives alike shudder as they contemplate this betrayal of American values. Hal Barwood San Anselmo...