by Thomas Dollar I must confess I was a bit nervous about writing for a new season of Equal Writes . As a newly repatriated U.S.American coming off a year in Sierra Leone, I wondered how I could be relevant to a campus discourse on feminism. When I was a freshman, Republicans in control of Congress were attempting to force Big Government to overrule a family’s end-of-life decision , while Princeton liberals were protesting to save the Senate filibuster . (Whoops.) But I have learn
I could live a very complete and satisfying life on the internet simply by trolling the opinion columns at TownHall.com . From the profoundly mentally ill Doug Giles to K-Lo’s supplicating feminism to idiot relatives of Newt Gingrich, it is a regular parade of the lame, the halt, the ugly, and the stupid. And I know – after years of lurking, my senses are sharp – as soon as I see a news story about racially-charged police misadventures I can head over to TownHall and they will feature the work
Women in Transition From Post Feminism to Past Femininity “[In]… the brothels off Wenceslas Square, in central Prague, [where] sexual intercourse can be bought for USD 25 – about half the price charged at a German brothel… Slav women have supplanted Filipinos and Thais as the most common foreign offering in [Europe].” (The Economist, August 2000, p.18) “I’m also wary of the revolutionary ambition of some feminist texts, with their ideas about changing present conditions, having seen enough
