Human females have been dominated by human males for thousands of years. With that power comes the license to be disrespectful. Many women have written eloquently about it. Gerda Lerner is my favorite. The Sun Journal featured an Associated Press story (Feb. 28) about a woman who came forward about the lack of respect she […]
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J. Tierney: How to show improvement?
This is in response to the Sun Journal story, “SAT scores drop” (Dec. 5). What to do? The way student achievement is tested could be changed. That would certainly take the heat off administrators in education. But would it help young people learn? Unfortunately, the public will never know because next year there will be […]
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J. Tierney: Try something different
Maybe it is time to acknowledge that people have been dealing with domestic abuse wrong for the past 50 years. By hiding resources which are intended to balance, to some degree, the power differential between prospective abusers and those who are abused, it is inadvertently conveyed to the abuser that he or she does, indeed, […]
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J. Tierney: Carrying the blame
It would be comical if it weren’t so sad. The Sun Journal’s front page report (Oct. 26) on the governor’s new war on drug crimes is another example of the governor blaming low-income women for the drug prevention fiasco the federal and state governments have perpetuated for the past couple of decades. The governor indicated […]