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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

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/marriage-brain-or-heart/’,size:‘large’} Ninth in an ongo­ing series of essays
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 […]

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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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