by Karen Lontka | Sep 20, 2012 | Feminist Views |
Conventional wisdom would have you believe that women are inherently caring, compassionate and altruistic individuals. There are, however, exceptions to every rule and the late author and philosopher Ayn Rand is this exception. She is characterized by undying hatred...
by Karen Lontka | Jul 21, 2012 | Feminist Views |
THESE are the times that try one’s soul. The summer activist and the sunshine feminist will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their causes; but they that stand by it now, deserve the love and thanks of man and woman. Inequality, like hell, is not...
by Karen Lontka | Apr 25, 2012 | Feminist Views |
Within Greek Mythology the thread of life is woven by the Fate Clotho, her decisions can overrule the gods. In the near future, on a brisk November day, she is has two threads in her hand, one red the other blue. What is our fate if she begins to weave with the red...
by Karen Lontka | Mar 18, 2012 | Feminist Views |
The attack on women’s rights, rights long believed settled, has been on a steady increase over the past four decades. A return to near medieval religious orthodoxies has forged an alliance with conservatives determined to march backwards to a day when workers and...
by Karen Lontka | Jul 11, 2011 | Feminist Views |
The President is into the third year of his term in office. The nation has weathered through a stock market crash and crushing bank failures that began in the previous administration. Public spending programs, while softening the worst part of the economic calamity,...
by Karen Lontka | Jul 1, 2011 | Feminist Views |
Evidence it building that the general population does not embrace intelligence as a valuable asset. “Twenty-five percent of young American women would rather win America’s Next Top Model than the Nobel Peace Prize. Twenty-three percent would rather lose their...
