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One to Watch

March 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Baseball, Feminism, Japan, Red Sox, Sports, The Boston Globe

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/03/03/one-to-watch/’,size:‘large’} Base­ball hasn’t had much room for women.  That may soon change, how­ever – if only a lit­tle, as the Boston Globe reports on a female knuck­le­baller from Japan.
The knuck­le­ball not need­ing speed but rely­ing rather on unpre­dictabil­ity, I really think this girl has a chance.  Maybe she’ll replace Wake when […]

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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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Les Femmes : plus productives?

February 22nd, 2010 · 7 Comments · Business, Europe, Feminism

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/22/les-femmes-plus-productives/’,size:‘large’} Il paraît, selon Bonne Nou­velle ! (un blog de LeMonde.fr), que les grands sociétés du bourse français fleuris­sent quand ils ont plus de man­agers féminins.
This one’s for you, Sam: The top 40 com­pa­nies on the French stock mar­ket grew 23.54 per­cent when they had more than 35 per­cent female […]

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Unemployed Men

February 19th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, Civil Liberties, Conservative Pundits, Culture, Economics, Entertainment, Feminism, Israel, Media, Palestine, Personal, Politics, The Middle East, War on Terror

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/19/unemployed-men-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The Atlantic Monthly looks at the polit­i­cal and cul­tural con­se­quences of the reces­sion that per­vades the West­ern world, and here is an enlight­en­ing excerpt:
In her clas­sic soci­ol­ogy of the Depres­sion, The Unem­ployed Man and His Fam­ily, Mirra Komarovsky vividly describes how job­less­ness strained—and in […]

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Women of the Wall

February 16th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/02/16/women-of-the-wall/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews ver­bally assaulted a group of women pray­ing at the West­ern Wall, called them “Nazis,” and blamed them for the Holo­caust.
It’s just another exam­ple of the insan­ity that per­vades extrem­ist groups in the Mid­dle East. The group, mem­bers of Women of the Wall […]

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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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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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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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Abortion Politics

January 14th, 2010 · 4 Comments · Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Health, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, Sex, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/14/abortion-politics-2/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — You learn some­thing new every day. Here is Israel’s law on abor­tion:
Under Israeli law, abor­tions are per­mis­si­ble if the woman is younger than sev­en­teen or older than forty, if the preg­nancy was con­ceived under ille­gal cir­cum­stances such as rape or incest, or out­side of mar­riage, if the […]

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Religious Law

January 8th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Business, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Culture, Feminism, Iran, Islam, Israel, Judaism, Law, Personal, Politics, Religion, The Middle East

var fbShare = {url: ‘http://www.samueljscott.com/2010/01/08/religious-law/’,size:‘large’} JERUSALEM — The oppo­si­tion move­ment in Iran now has a reli­gious dimen­sion:
The deci­sion to defrock a dis­si­dent aya­tol­lah – widely con­sid­ered to wear the man­tle of spir­i­tual leader of the oppo­si­tion – has pried open con­flicts within the Islamic Republic’s reli­gious core.
The Qom The­o­log­i­cal Lec­tur­ers Asso­ci­a­tion, a regime-aligned group­ing of […]

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