Culture

Department of Education to Probe Athletic Program Allowing Transgender Females to Compete With Girls 0
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights is opening an investigation into whether female high school athletes were discriminated against when the state of Connecticut allowed males who identify as females to compete with them. The three high school girls pursuing the complaint include Selina Soule, who earlier this year missed qualifying for the 55-meter dash
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When Free Speech Clashes With Trans Power 0
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- August 9, 2019
While Vancouver, British Columbia, has been on the front lines of the trans and free speech debates, the recent Pride Parade was a real flashpoint, giving us a clear insight into what we might expect on the U.S. cultural front in the not-so-distant future. In recent years, Pride has morphed from an LGBTQ-only celebration to
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A Gun Control Lesson From Australia’s Cat Genocide 0
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- August 9, 2019
As America reels from another string of mass shootings, first in El Paso, then in Dayton, Ohio, the debate over gun control is heating up again. Any rational observer realizes that there is something deeply flawed with how we traditionally talk about guns in America. I wonder if we would be better off if we
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The He-Man Woman Haters Club: Welcome to the World of the Incel 2
- Culture
- August 9, 2019
Suppose you were a young man living in a society drenched in sex. Suppose movies featured erotic scenes of beautiful women making love with handsome men. Suppose magazines featured gorgeous models in advertisements. Suppose many books of fiction, some of which our parents and grandparents would have regarded as pornographic, featured vivid sexual acts. Suppose
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The Batman and Tolkien’s Batman 0
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- August 8, 2019
While we continue to marvel at the steady stream of superheroes being pumped out in comics and movies, I am more interested in ordinary heroes. The ordinary hero is the man or woman behind the scenes. They are the ones who play the steady, supporting role. Natural second fiddles, they are the loyal retainers who
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Why I’m Glad I Read Toni Morrison’s Beloved (Even Though I Didn’t Want To)0
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- August 8, 2019
“I am very unexcited to read this book,” I told a classmate of mine as I stared at the copy of Beloved sitting on the table in front of me. I would describe myself as a book lover, but my fiction quota is relatively low. It’s not that I don’t like fiction. Rather, if
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