It’s Cuz They Respect Their Women More, See
See:
SF Chronicle – Afghanistan’s dirty little secret
For centuries, Afghan men have taken boys, roughly 9 to 15 years old, as lovers. Some research suggests that half the Pashtun tribal members in Kandahar and other southern towns are bacha baz, the term for an older man with a boy lover. Literally it means “boy [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Saving Teenagers, Walking Visas
This is very good:
The Times – The British girls disappearing into forced marriages, by Lucy Bannerman
“I was told I was staying here for ever,” she says [Tania (pseudonym), 16]. “For ever” often used to mean until 18 – the minimum age at which a Briton could sponsor a spouse’s entry [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Journalists Struggling to Cope With This “Democratic” Modern Age
Telegraph – Raoul Moat and the unacceptable face of Facebook
In David Cameron’s clash with Facebook we can see the key cultural question of our time, says Jenny McCartney
So, she goes from describing the elitist but responsible days of old journalism, where:
Letters to newspapers that were full of violent views, or just [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani’s Unhuman, Inhumane Fate
The Times – ‘Stop the stoning’
The execution of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has already spent five years in prison and received 99 lashes for alleged adultery, would “disgust and appal the watching world”, the British Government declared, as Sir David Hare, Robert Redford, Emma Thompson, Juliette Binoche, Katherine Hamnett, the fashion designer, [...]
Categories: Geography and Foreign Affairs
Out to Fix the Disease of Being Female
This right here makes this new Times site worthwhile. You can register for free! For freee!
The Times – What do women want? Not a sex drug, thanks, by Janice Turner
Two quotes:
Who needs these drugs, anyway? Is a woman who doesn’t want sex actually suffering from a medical condition? Unlike a man, the problem [...]
Categories: Science and Nature
Some Refuge
The Globe & Mail – The immigration debate we don’t want to have Aqsa’s murder raises some extremely troubling questions about integration, by Margaret Wente
The Parvez family history is not uncommon. Aqsa’s father and her oldest brother arrived in Canada in 1999 as refugees from Pakistan. In those days, it was easy to buy [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
From Helen to Troy
Thomas Friedman, who used to write the 411 column for Fox News but who now has a blog for the Hollywood Reporter, writes on Helen Thomas’ resignation:
The New York Times, which did not even mention what was going on previously, now reports the story online. The Times has simply ignored [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Absolutely the Funniest Item of the Day CCXXXV
Half, on Helen Thomas (and face):
Per Dad…. she’d make a train take a dirt road.
Oh man. Oh man.
Categories: Business & Media
Where All the Hypatias Were Called Hypatia
Wheat & Weeds – Agony of Agora
I was kind of excited about this movie, because last year, a few weeks before I saw the first trailer for this movie, I’d read Umberto Eco’s Baudolino, and Hypatia features rather, erm, heavily, in parts. But, oh well!
Won’t be seeing this one, as it’s a prolonged [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Nicholas Kristof’s an Idiot
Andrew Roberts (A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900, amongst others) reviews Nick Kristof’s review of Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s book:
Hirsi Ali denounces Islam with a ferocity that I find strident,” he writes.
She’s the one living it, pal. And he finds it strident.
If one is looking for overheated and overstated rhetoric, [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
On Using “Pimp” As a Verb
I cautioned a guy at work the other day (who’s first language isn’t English (not that you’d notice, it’s so good)) against using “pimp” as a verb, as in “pimp my ride” (except “ride” was something more relevant to where I work). I said it was a bit …negative. I’m feeling very righteous (and relieved) [...]
Categories: Entertainment
Baroness Warsi
I already have her in my archive criticizing the Druid after his Sharia law comments (/high five!), and further back, in an article about her releasing Gillian Gibbons from Sudan, claiming that the foreign office is useless these days. So far, she has impeccable context!
Anyway, as long as she’s better than Baron Ahmed…
National Post – [...]
Categories: Politics
GE2010: The Results!
In which one thing is made clear: Nobody reads the Guardian. I’m not the only one thinking that either…
Telegraph Blogs – Damian Thompson: Could The Guardian possibly have got this election more wrong?
It endorsed Nick Clegg, confident that “the liberal moment has come” and that its readers would loyally follow its advice. [...]
Categories: Politics
Ruined Yoots
Here’s an old column of Janice Turner’s, which she’s linked to again in her Twitter feed today:
Guardian – Dirty young men Pornographic poses, the going rate for sex, jokes about ’stupid tarts’: the misogyny of the new breed of lads’ mags is breathtaking. So why do the editors swear to Janice Turner that it’s all just [...]
Categories: Business & Media
Iran Elected to the Commission on the Status of Women
Of course:
National Post – Tom Gross: UN appoints Iran to women’s rights commission. Seriously
No, this is not a parody. The United Nations has elected Iran to its Commission on the Status of Women, handing a four-year seat on what is supposed to be an influential human rights body to a [...]
Categories: People and Current Events
