In an era of raunch, how to raise a gentleman

I have two sons, ages 6 and 3, so I guess have a more time before I have to start worrying about them transforming into hormone-raging cads. But if today’s world of sexting, rainbow parties, Girls Gone Wild and Tila Tequila is any indication of what’s to come, I’m going to have my hands full.

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Thomas' Elijah Ministries has started the Kingdom Leadership Institute, a weeklong ideological boot camp for home-schooled Christians between the ages of 14 and 21.

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At age 27, Malalai Joya was the first woman elected to Afghanistan's parliament.

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The leading female contender to be chosen as Europe's first president yesterday challenged her male rivals to an open contest, and criticised the secretive carve-up of the EU's top job.

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I contend that most of the unnecessary suffering in human life, the suffering due to clinging, aggression, and bewilderment rather to birth, aging, sickness, and death, is due to the prison of gender roles, which is why freedom from that prison, not new reformed gender roles, is  …

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She is a striking brunette with a decidedly outspoken attitude. She lambasts President Barack Obama as a socialist and has become the darling of America's right-wing activists who flock to her appearances. She is hated by liberals and loved by conservatives.

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That's right: women grow more than half of the world's food and the lion's share (as much as 80 percent) of the food in developing countries, reports the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

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Scott Roeder, the killer of Dr. George Tiller, to have his attorneys request trial moved out Sedgewick County, Kansas, in light of the media blitz regarding abortion doctor's murder.....

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The pioneering author and scholar died earlier this month.

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As an early and ardent supporter of abortion rights, a champion of female professors, and one of the founding board members of the National Organization of Women, Dr. Rossi was a strong feminist voice across many spheres of American life.

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Do men prefer a woman to be docile and submissive to them? Is it really necessary for a woman to hide her opinions, to pretend to be less confident and secure than she is, or to not speak up so that her man can feel more "manly?"

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"What is feminist about discriminating a [sic] photo shoot just because it involves female (partial) nudity that happens to give men pleasure?" So glad you asked!

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In the 1960s, Linda McDaniels of Kansas came upon the deed to her marital home. It read: "John McDaniel and spouse."

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Much has changed for women since Sept. 16, 1910, the day that Bessica Raiche, a 1903 graduate of Tufts University School of Medicine and one of the first female OB/GYN specialists in the United States, went down in history.

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In praise of "right wing women."

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An evolutionary look at the road to happiness.

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"PRESIDENT NICOLAS Sarkozy's recent declaration to French parliamentarians was greeted with loud applause: "I say it solemnly," he said, "the burka is not welcome in France."

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As a Democrat, I've often wondered why members of certain interest groups (like women and blacks) continue to vote Republican. Here a staunchly Conservative Republican woman takes on the male-dominated GOP over the way Republican women are treated on their new website.

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Why is one group of women, almost all of whom are wealthy, white and post-menopausal, so enthusiastic about the rights of another group of women, almost all of whom are poor, non-white and fertile?

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Forget about the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue. The Clare Boothe Luce Policy Institute (CBLPI) has announced their hot new "Great American Conservative Women" calendar for 2010.

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Is science fiction "feminized"? Do women exist to destroy all that is cool and inspiring about space opera? That's what one blogger argues in a post that's stirred up controversy this week. But is his opinion really the problem?

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Enslaving men, Liberating women

In a society where a man is not considered a man unless he has sex with women, and there is no space for men to say no to women without losing their manhood, in a society where women have been artificially invested with such immense power over men as the granters of manhood, it m …

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"Her dedicated work has led to the current struggle against antibiotic-resistant bacteria and many other applications. Yonath is the world's first woman to become a chemistry laureate since 1964, and only the fourth in history.

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"Women scientists say they want to be treated equally by their male colleagues and employers, but at the same time, special accommodations and grants would be welcome, as it is much more difficult for women to pursue their research careers without having a "wife" to back them up.

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Save the Whales - Lose the Blubber PETA's new billboard campaign in Florida is raising eyebrows and ire among women and health groups. A drawing on billboards in Jacksonville depicts an obese woman with the phrase, "Save The Whales, Lose The Blubber: Go Vegetarian."

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Imagine if the first person on the moon had proclaimed, "That's one small step for woman, one giant leap for mankind."

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