Christina Hoff Sommers: under the "unprecedented influence" of feminist lobbyists, Obama's policies in healthcare, economics, and education can be criticized not only for being anti-male, but for working against their stated ideals of equality.

rebuildingMyself · 2012-10-31T18:50:43+00:00

The president had originally called for a two-year “shovel-ready” plan to modernize roads, bridges, electrical grids, and dams. Women’s activists were appalled. Op-eds appeared with titles like “Where Are the New Jobs for Women?” and “The Macho Stimulus Plan.”

What keeps a woman from picking up a shovel?

AnthonyZarat · 2012-10-31T17:50:10+00:00

This is a VERY IMPORTANT article. It mentions black-letter law discrimination against men, boys, and fathers. It covers everything.

Brilliant find.

TenLink · 2012-10-31T20:38:11+00:00

Her book "the war against boys" is very good. I recommend buying it.

TenLink · 2012-10-31T21:02:13+00:00

I posted this blog the other day but it didn't really take off. It is by a guy in the construction industry giving a first hand account of the effects of gender policies on construction. It results in the hiring of substandard workers and the giving of jobs traditional given to young males in an apprenticing role to women instead. Thus preventing many young guys from getting into the industry. It is a good read:

http://www.the-spearhead.com/2012/02/19/davis-bacon-equality/

In addition, I am applying to graduate school right now and every one of these schools is absolutely head over heels for for diversity. Getting gender parity trumps less important issues, like qualifications. In other words I can expect to be discriminated against at every single school. Meaning I have to be 2 or 3 times better than the other guy. Being a little better isn't good enough. You can really see when this is occurring because most of the places release statistics. For example here is rice's enrollment stats for 2010:

http://graduate.rice.edu/biocdata/

3 men and 9 women were enrolled in 2010. You can't tell me that this distribution is a result of a fair appraisal of applicant qualifications. But since every school is like this I really don't have a choice.

buster2209 · 2012-10-31T19:12:20+00:00

Brilliant article! Everything I've read by this woman hits the nail on the head.

iongantas · 2012-11-01T01:02:11+00:00

This makes me so angry.

actanonverba8 · 2012-11-01T02:07:09+00:00

What a great, great article. Hoff-Sommers is one of my absolute favorite women to listen to/read concerns issues related to the sexes.

Thanks for posting this.

duglock · 2012-10-31T20:45:47+00:00

I keep on saying it and I'll say it again. Obama has done nothing but portray women as genitals that need to be dependent on the government their entire lives. Everything is about their vaginas and handouts. How in the hell can women not be offended by this is beyond me.

CaptainVulva · 2012-10-31T18:28:48+00:00

Don't worry men these feminist lobbyists are fighting for gender equality!

/s

But this article does very much shows the ugly face of feminism and why we fight against it.

DerpaNerb · 2012-10-31T19:42:32+00:00

No no no.... don't post this. Left and right are equally bad when it comes to feminism.

I need to maintain my feel good leftist label and still think that they will do something to thwart feminism!

2012-11-01T08:34:54+00:00

Within the feminist movement there has always been female supremacists. What you have to understand is they never had any intention of stopping once "equality" was obtained they will keep pushing until men are nothing more than sperm donors.

Most men are not very good at being "systemic thinkers" and have no idea of what tyranny they are constructing, a series of rules and regulations that benefit women over men.

Willravel · 2012-10-31T21:43:14+00:00

I'd suggest healthy skepticism regarding any publications from the American Enterprise Institute, regardless of the topic. They are a well known right-wing, neoliberal think tank with a history of fudging facts to fit ideology instead of gathering data and performing analysis in order to reach some objective truth. Their attacks on the IPCC alone should cause anyone to treat them with a skeptical eye.

For example:

The Affordable Care Act mentions “breast” 44 times, “prostate” not once.

Without any context, this suggests bias, however upon further reading, the Affordable Healthcare Act isn't actually providing services for women's cancer screening and treatment that aren't available for men. This isn't, as the article suggests without any evidence or analysis, an imbalance, unless you're talking about a grammatical imbalance, which is really all the evidence points to.

Conservative think tanks like AEI likely represent a far greater threat to egalitarian movements than they do a boon. What happens when they publish bullshit but the movement accepts it with open arms, only to be corrected?