{"id":7725,"date":"2014-09-02T11:18:33","date_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/five-feminist-myths\/"},"modified":"2014-09-02T11:18:33","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T11:18:33","slug":"five-feminist-myths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/09\/02\/five-feminist-myths\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Feminist Myths"},"content":{"rendered":"

Christina Hoff Sommers exposes<\/a> five leftist-feminist falsehoods.  My favorite example is the following one which provides yet another example of the idiocy of Jimmy Carter, the Obama of the 1970s:<\/span><\/p>\n

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MYTH 2: <\/strong>Between 100,000 and 300,000 girls are pressed into sexual slavery each year in the United States.<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

FACTS:<\/strong> This sensational claim is a favorite of politicians, celebrities and journalists. Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore turned<\/a> it into a cause c\u00e9l\u00e8bre<\/a>. Both conservatives and liberal reformers deploy it. Former President Jimmy Carter recently said<\/a> that the sexual enslavement of girls in the U.S. today is worse than American slavery in the 19th<\/sup> century.<\/span><\/p>\n

The source for the figure is a 2001 report<\/a> on child sexual exploitation by University of Pennsylvania sociologists Richard Estes and Neil Alan Weiner. But their 100,000\u2013300,000 estimate referred to children at risk<\/em> for exploitation\u2014not actual victims. <\/strong>When three reporters from the Village Voice<\/em> questioned <\/a>Estes on the number of children who are abducted and pressed into sexual slavery each year, he replied, \u201cWe\u2019re talking about a few hundred people.\u201d And this number is likely to include a lot of boys: According to a 2008 census<\/a> of underage prostitutes in New York City, nearly half turned out to be male. A few hundred children is still a few hundred too many, but they will not be helped by thousand-fold inflation of their numbers.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Here's a tip for you.  When some activist or advocate makes a claim, be skeptical and run the numbers, especially when the advocate has a vested interest in promoting his cause.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Do you remember Mitch Snyder<\/a> the advocate for the homeless who hanged himself in 1990?  I heard him make a wild claim sometime in the '80s to the effect that the number of homeless in the U. S. was three million.  At the time the population of the U.S. was around 220 million.  So I rounded that up to 300 million and divided by three million.  And then I knew that Snyder's claim was bogus, and probably fabricated by Snyder, as was later shown to be the case.  It is simply not credible that one in 100 in the U. S. is a homeless person.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is similarly incredible that one in 1000 girls in the U. S. is pressed into sexual slavery each year<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

When Snyder admitted to Ted Koppel that he made up his number, advocates for the homeless defended his tactic as "lying for justice."  See here<\/a>. A nice illustration of the leftist principle that the end justifies the means.  Obama implemented the principle when he  lied some 30 times about the Affordable Care Act .  But let's not go over that again.
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Christina Hoff Sommers exposes five leftist-feminist falsehoods.  My favorite example is the following one which provides yet another example of the idiocy of Jimmy Carter, the Obama of the 1970s: MYTH 2: Between 100,000 and 300,000 girls are pressed into sexual slavery each year in the United States. FACTS: This sensational claim is a favorite … Continue reading “Five Feminist Myths”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[394],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}