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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I'll explain what was wrong with Mr. King's comments. Basically, he packed two bad assumptions into one short phrase. The first assumption is about women being passive. His questioner asked what she could do about global warming... in other words, she asked what actions she, herself, could take. And he responded that she could "stop admiring." Which is doubly insulting, as he's asking her to stop being a passive bystander in a scenario he imagined himself.
Secondly, he's assuming that women are responsible for things that men do. Which is absurd, if one thinks about it logically: The man in his scenario made the choice to acquire and drive a Ferrari, so surely it's his reponsibility. If he did it thinking he'd impress women that way, well, that's his problem, not theirs.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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