ITEM 1991. The University of Toronto finds a chemical engineering professor guilty of sexual harassment for “prolonged" staring at a female student at the university swimming pool.’ He was guilty of creating a hostile environment for her. ITEM 1991-2. Graffiti r a high school men’s room which the school neglected to remove resulted in the […]
Рубрика: In The Myth of Male Power
Why do some women get so upset about pinups at work?
A pinup at work symbolizes to many women that the man cares more about a woman’s body than about a woman’s work. The woman who is serious about work feels she has to deal with a man who wants to combine the two — without regard for her desire. Combining the two doesn’t seem any […]
The Politics of Sex
Why sexual harassment is such a big issue for women If a woman at work caressed a man on his rear, he’d thank her, not sue her. So how can a man understand why sexual harassment is such a big issue for women? Men, imagine growing up always receiving compliments from women on your mechanical […]
Toward a solution
No on# mokes о commitment to a disadvantage Laws that make one sex more powerful than the other boomerang against both sexes — no one makes a commitment to a disadvantage. And when one sex doesn’t commit, both sexes lose love. We can see this happening in Australia, for example, where domestic violence is now […]
Do men kill women more than women kill men?: the six blinders
The Department of Justice tells us that men kill women tuice as often as women kill men.®4 But let’s look more closely. Certainly men are more likely to be serial killers of women. Almost always these killings follow a pattern and the man is found. Therefore the Justice Department statistics can reflect this reality. Other […]
How individual women are given more power to kill than the entire U. S. government
Taken together, the twelve female-only defenses allow almost any woman to take it upon herself to exercise the death penalty. Ironically, we now consider it liberal to favor a woman exercising the death penalty and to oppose the goiemment exercising the death penalty. The government is not allowed to kill someone first and declare him […]
If there were male-only defenses, what would they be?
There is no male-only defense for killing a woman. Nor should there be. But if there were, the male equivalent of the female PMS defense would be the testosterone defense, the equivalent of the innocent woman defense would be the rational man defense — the equally sexist assumption that a man would not commit a […]
The contract killing defense.. . defend self by hiring someone else
Is contrtict killing the ftтаїш method of choice? When I did the first review of my files in preparation for this section on contract killing. 1 was struck by some fascinating patterns. First, all of these women hired boys or men. Second, their targets were usually husbands, ex — husbands, or fathers — men they […]
The Svengali defense
ITEM A beautiful woman — dubbed the Miss Amenca Bandit — conducted an armed robbery of a bank. Federal sentencing guidelines called for a minimum of four and a half to five years m federal prison. The federal judge gave her two years because she told the judge she was in love with her hairdresser […]
The plea bargain defense
Once a woman is seen as more innocent, her testimony is more valued, which leads to prosecutors offering the woman the plea bargain in crimes committed jointly by a woman and a man And if a district attorney is up for reelection, the chivalry — factor allows him to look like a hero when his […]