Friday Reads

Author Phyllis Chesler knows as well as anybody antisemitism is rife on the political left and always has existed, including in so-called "feminist" circles.

It's the sexism, stupid, which is rife in Islam, and there is no getting around it.  That is why feminists, including those who are Jewish, are highly critical of it and other patriarchal religions.
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Feminist Meghan Murphy had her Vancouver, B.C., talk last night after many people have gone to bed thanks to the Vancouver Public Library being too skittish to have the event during its regular hours.  It was a good talk:



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When you have to have bodyguards at an event that centers on material reality, you know we live in batshit crazy times.
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For years I have been wanting to get the vintage 1970 issue of Newsweek which featured the women's movement on its cover, but it always had been too expensive for me to purchase on eBay.  I finally received a copy for a mere six dollars, and it is in very good shape for an issue 49 years old. That article, written by the late Helen Dudar who died in 2002, was interesting in that it was published at the same time women of the magazine were suing for sex discrimination.

Dudar's article was mostly sympathetic to the women's movement.  I remembered reading it as a fifteen-year-old, and it really made an impact on my life.  For that moment, and I was just a freshman in high school, I started getting interested in feminist writings.  I probably have read all the major second-wave works of that era.

I have linked to the article at the beginning of this section.
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He might be too much of an egomaniac to do it, but Bernie Sanders really needs to hang it up and pack it in.
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I haven't been keeping up with much gossip anymore at my old employer, WCSD, but it appears whistleblowing can still get your ass fired there.

The administrator has so far prevailed in arbitration.

And what of the principal who fired her?  Of course she failed up and is now a district "area superintendent," which translated means a supervisor of principals in a designated area of the district.

I am glad I am out of that shithole, but it would have been far better if it had been on my own terms.
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