Posted on 05/13/2003 6:57:28 AM PDT by mikeb704
Courtesy of modem technology, we’ve been treated to videotape evidence of a high school "hazing" that happened at a north suburban high school. An event that was supposed to be an initiation for junior girls ended up sending five of them to the hospital, one student needing ten stitches in her head.
Not surprisingly, alcohol was involved. Someone, probably someone of legal age, was thoughtful enough to provide a keg of beer. Other festive props included pig intestines, feces and paint thinner.
In an e-mail to me (mikebates@prodigy.net), a reader reports hearing a TV news analyst provide a possible cause of bad behavior. The reason, we are to understand, is that today’s parents were raised in homes with strict discipline. Reacting to that upbringing of their own, the parents don’t want to exercise much control or authority. The reader writes: "I was raised in that overly strict and harsh disciplinary setting . . . which, along with an abundance of love, also taught me that with every freedom comes a responsibility. I think that a lot of young people today are missing that because their parents haven’t figured it out yet or simply don't take the time or (have the) inclination to teach them."
I agree with that. And I think there’s another plausible explanation. A tenet of feminism is that women have every right to be as crude, as abhorrent, and as vicious as the most loutish man. If a man can do something, so can any womyn.
The Bureau of Justice Statistics reported that between 1990 and 1999, the number of women convicted of felonies in state courts grew at more than two times the rate of increase among men. Feminism has a greater cost than just putting up with the humorless, doctrinaire fanatics who espouse it.
On Sunday night the female anchor on Channel 2, Chicago’s CBS affiliate, excitedly reported that, "Governor Blagojevich gave a Mother’s Day gift to all working women in Illinois." What, I wondered, could he have done, send a can of hair spray to every working woman in the state? He certainly seems to have enough of it.
No, what the governor did was sign into law a bill that in theory will guarantee women won’t earn less than men for the same or similar work. The legislation will apply to every company with four or more employees. During the ceremony, Blagojevich pointed out a state labor department report showing that women in Illinois are earning 71 cents for every dollar earned by men.
Feminists and their Phil Donahue-ish male sympathizers use the pay gap between men and women as irrefutable evidence of widespread sex discrimination. The salary difference is misleading.
This is because it doesn’t take into consideration several vital factors including number of hours worked, time on the job, education, and even occupation. Some women still take time off to have children; some are even able to stay home while raising them. Women tend not to choose jobs that involve high risk. The Federal government reports that 92 percent of deaths on the job happened to men in 2000.
The alleged pay gap means we need to have some sort of remedy, a law requiring pay equity. This idea has been part of the Democratic Party’s platform for the last three general elections. It would allow a bureaucrat to decide that certain jobs are of comparable worth and wages would have to be the same. Forget the free market, let Big Brother decide what a job is "really" worth.
Also on Sunday, almost 25,000 runners and walkers participated in Chicago’s Y-ME Race Against Breast Cancer. I commend those who are contributing to a cure for that horrible disease.
At the same time, I find it interesting that breast cancer has risen in concern to so many people when, statistically, it’s not the biggest threat to women’s health. The American Heart Association’s web site supplies an estimate that one in two women will eventually die of heart disease or stroke, compared with the one in 25 who will eventually die of breast cancer.
Lung cancer kills more women that breast cancer. Yet lung cancer receives less research funding from the National Institutes of Health. A disease affecting both sexes doesn’t deserve priority in the eyes of feminists.
Breast cancer is terrible and we all fervently hope for a cure. Other diseases, however, present an even bigger danger to women’s health. That’s a reality we don’t hear much.
Leni
Sounds good. We should ask why, now that we finally have a Republican President, House, and Senate -- our federal government is still increasing spending? I thought that was a Rat problem. Apparently not.
Feminists and their Phil Donahue-ish male sympathizers use the pay gap between men and women as irrefutable evidence of widespread sex discrimination. The salary difference is misleading.
Rubbish. Businesses can evaluate the risk they take in hiring an employee and freely adjust the wages there of. i can't stand these illegal accross the board racist laws.
Yeah, but it's an in disease, something that elevates your 'caring' quotient with your liberal friends when you participate in fundraisers, etc. You just can't get the same juice out of heart disease, MS, etc.
No colored ribbon to sport. . .
A few years ago, the president of the Ms. Foundation claimed, "“What we are trying to do is keep girls’ voices strong and their aspirations high.”
Seems to me those feminist voices tend to be either a whine or a shriek.
I keep trying to forget that part, but - all too often - 'tis true.
Except, probably, trial lawyer firms. Just what we need.
"ribbon of color", please
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