For over ten years, I’ve been writing on this blog and shaking my head, “I Don’t Get It!” You would’ve thought after all these years, I’d run out of things that shock me, but, each and every day, I read something that I just can’t believe. At the rate of what’s happening in this country, […]
Television and movies have changed dramatically. (I won’t even get into the music business.) Where men used to be noble, dignified supporters of their family, they are now often depicted as buffoons and slobs. Francis Reagan, the patriarch of Blue Bloods, as well as the other men on the show, are definitely exceptions – that’s […]
Last Christmas, my niece gave me a subscription to StoryWorth. Each week she asks me a question to which I respond in order to memorialize my thoughts and feelings over the past 70 years. A recent question was, “How has life changed since you were a child?” Well, that opened the floodgates and I’m sure […]
I think it all began with the word “mankind.” Someone woke up one day in the 80’s and thought the English language needed some tweaking. Somehow the use of the word “man” in “mankind” was considered exclusive and needed to be more gender-neutral like “humankind.” I’ve always found the use of the word “humankind” to […]
I like to keep things simple. There was a time, in the not too distant past, when girls were girls, boys were boys. Girls had girl parts and boys had boy parts. They grew up and women continued to have vaginas and men continued to have penises. There were males and there were females. Period. […]
The other day when I turned on my computer and loaded my Yahoo page, it read, in bold letters: “Bruce Jenner Gender Change Captures US Attention.” Capture (v.) 1. to take captive; seize or catch by force or craft. 2. to win possession or control of, as in a contest. 3. to succeed in preserving […]
Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown of California signed a bill which would require inclusion of the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans in school lessons and textbooks. This had to be the dumbest thing I read last week. Why, you ask? Let me start by saying, I don’t want to know or care […]
I usually limit my raves and rants to political, cultural and social issues in America but when I read about the Canadian couple who wants their baby, named “Storm,” to remain genderless, I knew I had to say something. When I first read the story, I immediately said to myself, “are these people nuts?” I’d […]
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