Posts about social issues and gender roles, including dating, marriage, and family.
Summary:   Part two of a series women in the Af-Pak War. The other chapters are listed at the end. . David Rothkopf (Wikipedia bio) writes a column at the Foreign Policy magazine’s website with the tagline “How the world is really run.” Based on these two columns about the war in Afghanistan, it appears he is unqualified …
Summary: An amnesic American public provides easy subjects for propaganda.  Coincidentally this media campaign appears several months after a CIA memo proposing it. Part one of a series about women as a casus belli for the Af-Pak War. America fights in Afghanistan as women’s protectors, according to the latest media barrage. Fortunately we’re amnesic. Otherwise we’d ask about our …
Today’s propaganda: we must fight in Afghanistan to help its women Read More »
Here is a fascinating interview with Mohammed Najibullah, President of Afghanistan from 1986 – 1992. See his Wikipedia entry for more information. The full article is worthwhile reading! “Revisiting Afghanistan: A Conversation with Najibullah“, Alan Brody (22 years with UNICEF), Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 2008 — Powerful insights about the Taliban and Afghanistan, from someone …
Honor killings of daughters. Ubiquitous in many (not all) nations with Islamic majorities. A growing problem in Europe. Now appearing in the USA. There are precedents in western civilization (e.g., Héloïse and Abelard), esp killing of unfaithful wives and their partners.   But the form found in some Islamic societies is far more serious. Here are two articles about this …
This is an update to the FM series about women in America. Links to previous chapters appear at the end. The Shriver Report, Center for American Progress, October 2009 — “A Women’s Nation Changes Everything” “The myth that schools shortchanged girls“, Judith Kleinfeld (Prof Psychology, U Alaska), Men’s Insight Magazine, 1998 Excerpts (1) The Shriver Report, …
