feminism

Discrimination

כ״ד בכסלו ה׳תש״ע (Friday 11 December 2009)

When I went to college years ago in America, I took a constitutional law class with a professor so fanatic and bloodthirsty that she made me feel uncomfortable as a male to attend the lectures (I passed it by cramming with the help of an arch-feminist who later became a lesbian – see, I don’t [...]

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Slate on Ayn Rand

כ״ט במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Monday 16 November 2009)

It’s been many years since I last considered Ayn Rand a major influence in my life (fortunately I had the wisdom even as a teenager not ever to want to be an “Objectivist”), but as a dedicated reader of Slate and as someone who was at least turned on to liberty and to a somewhat [...]

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Femininity

י״ב במרחשון ה׳תש״ע (Friday 30 October 2009)

I had one of these great conversations yesterday that stays in my head, turning around and around so I can analyze and re-analyze it for a long time. A fellow in my office, about my age but born in Israel and lived here his whole life, asked me about my Aliyah – am I Jewish, [...]

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