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Coddling Kamala: Media Now Want “Female Politicians” Protected From “Hate Speech”

By Selwyn Duke

Lest you think our mainstream media are inveterate enemies of tradition, know that their opposition to it is selective. In fact, they now appear to want chivalry applied to female politicians, in the form of protecting them from negative social-media comments.

“Don’t hit girls!” is what’s essentially being said.

Perhaps coincidentally, too, this concern apparently arose after Kamala Harris became the Democrats’ presumptive presidential nominee. Why, a cynic could think this is all driven by a desire to help get her elected.

(Good thing there are no cynics here at The New American.)

Party of Weird: Biden’s Bizarre Twist on Title IX Takes Effect Today

By Selwyn Duke

“‘When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’” — Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

As humans, who cannot communicate telepathically, we as a rule will use our common language with its widely agreed-upon terms; we also won’t engage in selective alteration of definitions. And if someone did say his dog could join your county fair frog race because “dog” now means “frog” — even though he’s satisfied with “dog” meaning “dog” when entering his pooch in the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show — you’d probably size him up for a straitjacket. Yet such Humpty Dumptys do lurk among us.

Enter the Biden administration and its new Title IX “rule,” based on the claim that “sex” means “gender.”

Sugar and Spice? Tucker Carlson Says Female Leaders More Bloodthirsty Than Men

By Selwyn Duke

“Sugar and spice and everything nice; That’s what little girls are made of,” goes the old Romantic Period poem. Grown women are characterized differently, the work holds, and female leaders? Poem author Robert Southey didn’t say.

But pundit Tucker Carlson just did.

In fact, he stated while addressing the notion that “women in charge” would yield a more peaceful world that the exact “opposite” appears true.

A Feminazi South of the Border?

By Selwyn Duke

Sweden long ago became the world’s first officially “feminist” government. Will it now be followed by what some might think is, outside the Islamic world, the unlikeliest of places: Mexico? This may be the case if its president-elect, ex-academic Claudia Sheinbaum, has her way.

Focus on Feminism

In fact, while Sheinbaum — a radical who reportedly supported Colombian revolutionary-socialist guerrilla movement M-19 — will preside over a dysfunctional narco-state in psychopathic cartels’ grip, she has made clear that her priorities are more Gloria Steinem than Eliot Ness.

Feminist Nobel Laureate Economist Says Men Earn More Due to “Greedy Work”

By Selwyn Duke

Asian-descent Americans have long enjoyed notably higher incomes than their white countrymen do. It’s also true that men earn more money than women do. Now, question:

Are both, neither, or just one of these wage gaps seen as a “problem” to be “remedied”?

If you answered “just one” — and know which one it is — then you just may be acquainted with a fashionable modern form of discrimination: treating some inter-group disparities as more equal than others.

Report: Long Touted, Culture-altering Study Showing “Diversity” Increases Profits is Bunk

By Selwyn Duke

“New research makes it increasingly clear that companies with more diverse workforces perform better financially,” proclaimed McKinsey & Company in 2015. McKinsey’s study was taken seriously, too; in fact, it would be transformational.

Citing McKinsey in 2016, the Harvard Business Review announced, definitively, “Striving to increase workplace diversity is not an empty slogan — it is a good business decision.” Woke capital leviathan BlackRock made McKinsey Exhibit A when making the case for a board-diversity target of 30 percent, Nasdaq and a Securities and Exchange Commission figure touted it when lobbying for policies pressuring companies to embrace diversity, and multitudinous activist groups have done likewise while encouraging various diversity-oriented social-engineering schemes. There’s a problem, however:

The McKinsey study, it turns out, appears to be hogwash.

Joe Biden’s Man Problem

By Selwyn Duke

“C’mon, man!” would often be an exclamation used in place of argument for Joe Biden. But now he may want to say “C’mon, men!” — even though it likely won’t help. With what?

Biden is underwater with male voters, a phenomenon that has only worsened since his cognitive decline was on full display during the presidential debate.

In fact, Biden is even bleeding support among black and Hispanic men, two demographics that have traditionally supported him.

“Toxic Masculinity” Is a Toxic Fiction; “Stop Blaming Men,” Says Author

By Selwyn Duke

Overlapping with the “Enlightenment” and a reaction to it, the lesser-known “Romantic Period” (1790-1850, supposedly) stressed not reason but emotionalism and involved the exaltation of women. Over time this spirit metastasized into an attendant demonization of men; thus do we hear today about “toxic masculinity.” But this is essentially a toxic lie, says an author and life coach, pushed by media and other forces that portray men as society’s “bad guys.”

Lack of Authentic Masculinity

In fact, says Michael Taylor, male “problems” are actually the result of the man “not being connected to his authentic masculinity.” But while Taylor takes on the spirit of our time, is he, like most moderns, losing sight of the timeless?

Daddy Issues: Fathers Make a Home Complete

By Selwyn Duke

“A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle,” goes the notorious feminist proclamation. Yet revelation, reason, and science inform that this isn’t true for those very little women, and little men, known as children. Nor is it true of the grown women who raise children. Moreover, research illustrates dads’ importance with a finding that will seem counterintuitive to many: Single fathers actually have better parenting outcomes than do single mothers. (More on that later.)

Forget ISIS; Navy Gives Members New Foe to Combat: “Male Privilege”

By Selwyn Duke

The U.S. Navy’s Bureau of Medicine and Surgery aims to excise a foe — one that supposedly exists within the service itself: “male privilege.” The endeavor is outlined in a new Navy document on healthy vs. unhealthy male-female relationships, which includes charts called the “Power & Control” wheel (shown below the quote) and the “Equity Wheel.” It’s the latest in the military social engineering that critics warn is transforming our armed forces into a wheel of misfortune.

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