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Dalton Conley, the academic who argued that men should have a say in abortion decisions, now says his position is "feminist."
  • This crap again??

    Is this subject really back again? It's like the "Night of the Living Dead" of topics. No matter how many times you shoot it, it keeps coming for you. Someone needs to put a bullet into the skull of this dusty old corpse. Let's see if we can predict how this'll go:

    A bunch of women will complain about Mr Dalton's writings, comparing his world to Nazism and slavery and there will be words like "patriarchy" and "speak truth to power" used without the slightest trace of irony or amusement.

    A bunch of men will complain about how women are trampling their rights and how to a man feminism is just another word for oppression.

    A few men will opine about how much they hate Mr Dalton and his views and how much they love the sisterhood. [These guys are my favorites. Despite abundant evidence that taking this line won't get you laid anymore, they keep plugging away. It's quite touching.]

    Broadsheet, time to be a little more, well, broad. Spread your wings a little. Stretch yourself. Whatever. Just put a bullet into whatever passes for the brain of this topic and move on. This one is played. So played.