Professor Higgins’ line from My Fair Lady asks why a woman can’t be more like a man.  He sees women as frivolous, inferior creatures no real man could  understand.  But change the emphasis of his words and the question asks something different.  Why can’t a woman be more lik

Regarding the 2016 presidential election, writer Clara Jeffery sums the results best:             …a small electoral majority  chose a candidate who openly embraced bigotry, who slurred war heroes and mocked the disabled, who bragged of sexual assault, who said he’d ro

At 16, I knew everything.  Had I been truly wise, I’d have dropped out of school and kept my good opinion of myself. As it stands, the older I get, the less I know.   Graydon Carter, editor of Vanity Fair, seems to share my state of bewilderment.  (“From 9/11 to 11/9” by Gra

Depending upon what surveys you read, a majority of women voted for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential election, but not by a wide margin. (Click)  Thirty-nine percent went for her opponent, a certifiable  misogynist. One woman explained she was uncomfortable with her support