
It seems we have launched into a full-blown epidemic of sexual misconduct in the short time since the Harvey Weinstein allegations surfaced. Roy Moore, Al Franken, and Charlie Rose are only a few of the individuals who have been outed as allegedly treating women inappropriately in the last several decades. Hearing these accounts is alarming.
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When a couple of young female passengers were barred from boarding a United Airlines flight because they were wearing leggings, the internet exploded with accusations of sexism. When high school girls in Los Angeles showed up to school in spaghetti straps and off-the-shoulder tops, the dress code was deemed outdated. And when actress Mayim Bialik
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School officials sometimes refuse to suspend violent or disruptive students just because they are black, and school administrators believe that “too many” black students have already been suspended compared to the number of whites. Former school official Edmund Janko describes how he himself did this, to achieve a veiled racial quota, in a City Journal
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These last few weeks, amid the flood of sexual assault allegations stemming from what pundits are calling the Weinstein Effect, it occurred to me that perhaps the gender feminists are right. After all, an objective person can only read so many stories about powerful men chasing women with manhood in hand—quite literally—before the thought creeps
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At this point I’m utterly disgusted by almost everything I’ve read about the various sexual misdeeds of famous and powerful men. Yes, almost all of these accounts are merely allegations, but I’m finding the apologies of most of these men to be truly wanting and indicative of some guilt. Furthermore, the descriptions of the assaults
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Many people, even non-believers, know that “canonizing” somebody means naming them a saint. It’s the (Catholic or Orthodox) Church proclaiming—usually after an elaborate process of investigation requiring evidence of miracles as well as holiness—that their souls are in heaven. But nobody has ever been canonized to hell. The Church does not consider herself authorized to
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