myTakes: Society & Politics

We often, in the US, take free speech for granted, and don't realize its power. Actually, the major media is in the hands of a few very wealthy people, and ordinary people have only limited access to free speeech rights...

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/10/opinion/sunday/paulina-porizkova-america-feminist.html America Made Me a Feminist By PAULINA PORIZKOVA June 10, 2017 I used to think the word “feminist” reeked of insecurity. A woman...

Racism and xenophobia are bad. I have witnessed both of them and they are not fun. I look totally white but I have a dose of Native Alaskan tucked in there and I don't dare tell certain people because of how they would...

all of these ratings were taken from https://elections.huffingtonpost.com/pollster 8 Marco Rubio 35% 7 Paul Ryan 29.9% 6 Nancy Pelosi 28.6% 5 Rand Paul 27.7% 4 Chuck Schumer 26.2% 3 Ted Cruz 23.9% 2 John Boehner...

1. “Why do people say ‘grow some balls?’ Balls are weak and sensitive. If you wanna be tough, grow a vagina. Those things can take a pounding.” 2. “I’m tough, I’m ambitious, and I know exactly what I want. If that makes...

I posted a myTake before abut feminism/women and the women here have convinced me how one-sided it was, so upon further research I have chosen to post this new one. BOTH OF THESE WOMEN DESERVE THE SAME RESPECT I think...

Stop the infighting Stop breaking down others who are also right wing but do not have the same convictions as you do. If they listen to certain music (rap for example), watch anime or are not of the same religion you that...

The Redpill Documentry has sturred the feminist hornets nest because Casey Jaye (a former feminist female) started out with the common feminist idea to shame and attack men's rights activists... But when she opened her...

I was raised in a rather traditional European family. With most of my family being strong Roman Orthodox, something I did not quite live up to. I also happened to be born without a father, it's a rather long story in...

Today, I will get right down to the point. Most of my recent myTakes have all been about the well being of yourself, preventing any possible exploitive motifs, and one by one, I will explain them all. Bullying...

Places like Hooter degrade all of us. And it's not just in hidden corners in the far countryside. Business people go there to confab; they are 'respectable.' The other day, a friend took me to Hooters; I went once...

Introduction The reasons of me writing this MyTake is because a long time ago @OlderAndWiser questioned the rule of Spain under the Catholic Monarchs at the age of discovery. After he accused Fernando and Isabel of...

With society making a drastic change from the 1900’s to the millennial age, below are a few issues that I’ve noticed with the youth firsthand. Bullying and Suicide From firsthand experience back in middle school and in...

There are many issues and topics people don't feel comfortable talking for many reasons. Maybe they are afraid it'll make them look bad, maybe it's not "politically correct"or maybe they just think it's not important. The...