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BANGALORE, India — While I was traveling to the Silicon Valley of the East in December 2006 with my Suffolk University M.B.A. class in Boston to study business there for a week, I popped into a local tourist trap to look at some […]
Entries Tagged as 'Dating'
Marriage — Brain or Heart?
March 3rd, 2010 · 6 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Egypt, Feminism, India, Israel, Judaism, Personal, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East
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Domestic Violence
February 26th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Law
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/26/domestic-violence/’,size:‘large’} Winning the FoxNews award for spinning the truth and conflating issues is Sam’s recent post Redundant Oppressed Men.
Please note that the divorce laws he decries are, as the judge on the first case put it, “old laws.” They were passed in the “good old days,” when women didn’t have […]
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Redundant, Oppressed Men
February 26th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Britain, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Europe, Feminism, Health, Israel, Law, Marketing, Media, Politics, The Middle East
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JERUSALEM — The first of a five-part British documentary on the state of men and manliness in modern, Western society:
Men and masculinity are being marginalised. Manly virtues are laughed at, even considered dysfunctional. Men are being edged out of the family, the workplace and wider society as […]
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Dating in the Stone Age
February 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Health, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/09/dating-in-the-stone-age/’,size:‘large’} Your required-reading for the day: Charlotte Allen writes a lengthy essay on the modern, singles scene in the West, which she, perhaps ironically, believes is a throwback to tens of thousands of years ago as a result of feminism; technology; game-playing, Alpha males; sexually-liberated, successful women; ignored, Beta males; […]
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Too Many Men
February 7th, 2010 · No Comments · Business, China, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East, War
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Michael J. Totten watches this YouTube video and makes an important point:
I don’t know much about demography, but Martin Kramer makes a strong case in just a few short minutes for the idea that a surplus of military-aged males is a big part of the Middle East’s […]
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Fun with Statistics
February 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Dating, Economics, Finance, Humor, Science
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/03/fun-with-statistics/’,size:‘large’} If there is one thing that I learned in my finance classes in my M.B.A. studies, it is that past performance does not guarantee future results. To quote an oft-repeated mantra, there are lies, damn lies, and statistics. Remember this fact any time you see statistics reported by anyone.
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Orthodox Dating
February 2nd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Culture, Dating, Feminism, Judaism, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/02/orthodox-dating/’,size:‘large’} For those who are interested or curious, I just read a good article on dating in Orthodox Judaism — shomer negiah and all.
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T-Shirt Politics
January 24th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Fashion, Feminism, Humor, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/t-shirt-politics/’,size:‘large’} Melissa Tankard Reist criticizes a line of misogynistic T-shirts. Five bucks says she has no problem with male-bashing clothing. But it’s a moot point. Women — particularly those who are young, secular, and immature — generally prefer “bad boys,” guaranteeing that any man wearing the first set of shirts […]
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Lonely Women
January 24th, 2010 · 33 Comments · Boston, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Israel, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/24/lonely-women/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — Richard Whitmire, author of “Why Boys Fail,” has an interesting article in the Wall Street Journal based on findings of a recent Pew Research Center report on dating:
Rachel Downtain is a telecommunications project manager who says her friends would describe her as tall, slender, fit and active. […]
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A Good Advertisement
January 20th, 2010 · No Comments · Advertising, Business, Dating, Law, Marketing
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I laughed with I saw this online.
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Buying a Drink
January 20th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Feminism, Massachusetts, Personal, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/20/buying-a-drink/’,size:‘large’} HALIFAX, Canada — I flew to this Canadian town to attend a conference of the North American Street Newspaper Association in 2006 while I was Editor-in-Chief of Spare Change News in Boston, and the greatest lesson at the seminar actually came from a bar in the city.
While some of my […]
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Shomer Negiah Questions
January 9th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Boston, Culture, Dating, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Massachusetts, Personal, Religion, Sex, Talmud, Torah
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/09/shomer-negiah-questions/’,size:‘large’} BOSTON — So, several years ago, I was on a date with a wonderful girl. The evening was amazing — a tasty dinner, a few drinks, and great conversation. We were laughing and joking. Everything was going extremely well.
Then, after she volunteered to give me a lift to my […]
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Psychological Violence: A Response
January 7th, 2010 · 8 Comments · Britain, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Health, Law, Politics
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/07/3618/’,size:‘large’} Sam and his sources, conservative critics, even the venerable BBC, are wildly off-base in his post on psychological violence laws.
We in the US have laws against physical domestic violence, thankfully, partly in consequence of the 20th century movement to give women more rights.
Prior to the development of domestic abuse […]
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Psychological Violence
January 6th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Dating, Europe, Feminism, Health, Law, Politics, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/06/psychological-violence/’,size:‘large’} France just passed a new law that should raise a few eyebrows:
Married couples in France could end up with criminal records for insulting each other during arguments.
Under a new law, France is to become the first country in the world to ban ‘psychological violence’ within marriage.
The law would apply […]
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The Misandry Bubble
January 4th, 2010 · No Comments · Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Dating, Economics, Education, Feminism, Globalization, Immigration, Islam, Law, Politics, Religion, Sex
var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/04/the-misandry-bubble/’,size:‘large’} Here is your required reading for the day. Here is the nut graph:
The Western World has quietly become a civilization that undervalues men and overvalues women, where the state forcibly transfers resources from men to women creating various perverse incentives for otherwise good women to conduct great evil against men and children, […]
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