Sleepless in Midland

New firearm transaction form has checkbox for non-binary sex

Is this a sign of the times? Times certainly are a'changin.

The new (proposed) firearm transaction form has a checkbox for male, female, or non-binary for the buyer's sex. You've come a long way (non-binary) baby.

Links: old form, and
proposed form.

Found at Texas Scorecard.

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2:40 PM 1/4/2020

Abigail Shrier in WSJ -- claims of sexism less about women's feelings, more about hurting competitors

Abigail Shrier penned an interesting editorial the other day titled Ken Fisher, Joe Biden and the Merciless Young how a clumsy old guy can easily get trapped by the "me too" movement.

Apparently, Ken Fisher made a remark at a conference to the effect that people need to be careful what they say, using a crude example:

... it’s like “going up to a woman in a bar and saying, ‘Hey, I want to talk about what’s in your pants.’ ”

Cue the outrage. Competitors pounced on the remark with their twitter feeds, and according to Ms. Shrier,  "As of this writing, Fisher Investments has lost more than $2 billion in institutional assets, and Ken Fisher has been widely tarred for sexism." Ouch!

Likewise with Joe Biden's touching -- years ago women could handle it, but not now.

Ms. Shrier gets to the point:

None of this is about women. Denouncing sexism is a pretext that permits one competitor to damage another while playing the hero. Messrs. Biden and Fisher were successful in their fields, but vulnerable because of old age. They failed to keep up with political correctness. This is the competitive advantage of the young—that they can so readily assimilate the ever-expanding list of shibboleths and forbidden expressions. Mock horror is the next generation’s form of rent-seeking, and political correctness the younger players’ edge.

What then are the lessons for other Ken Fishers and Joe Bidens? Shake fewer hands, make fewer jokes, never speak freely or off the cuff. It’s a tall order.

For now, their younger competitors need only lie in wait. But someday age will render them more human and less vigilant, too. Eventually, they too will cough up the keys to their own downfall. Viva la revolución!

Accusations of sexism for minor touching and unguarded comments are now merely weapons to be used against competitors.

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4:02 PM 10/26/2019

Ladies, your future husband may work in the oil patch

There have been numerous articles citing a recent phenomenon, for example: Why Are Marriage Rates Down? Study Blames Lack Of ‘Economically-Attractive’ Men. To wit:

Researchers found that these estimated potential “dream” husbands had an average income about 58% higher than the actual unmarried men currently available to unmarried women. These synthetic husbands were also 30% more likely to be employed than real single men and 19% more likely to have a college degree.

Sure, he's a nice enough fellow, but he just doesn't bring home the bacon. What's a modern highly educated and highly paid hypergamous woman to do?

Ladies, if you've been looking for love in all the wrong places, you're in luck. Wages are high in the oil patch -- so high that the oil companies suck up all the young working age men. That's where the eligible men are.

Here's proof, if you need it. State Personal Income, Second Quarter 2019:

State personal income increased 5.4 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter of 2019, a deceleration from the 6.2 percent increase in the first quarter, according to estimates released today by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (table 1). The percent change in personal income across all states ranged from 7.5 percent in Texas to unchanged in North Dakota.

Professional, scientific, and technical services was the leading contributor to the earnings increase in Texas, the fastest growing state, as well as five other fast-growing states-- Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona, and Oregon (table 3).

(Bold added.)

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3:16 PM 9/30/2019

Bad ad -- Progressive Insurance Motaur commercial

For cable TV watchers, commercials are unavoidable. But some are more entertaining than others. And the TV remote is a convenient weapon against the bad ones.

Progressive Insurance currently has some of the worst ones running. It's as if they have consciously excluded men from the target audience and instead sought to alienate them. Take for example the commercial with the Motaur -- the creature that's half man and half motorcycle.

Who could have thought that was a way to sell insurance to men? Does it sell to women? Maybe, but it's doubtful.

It brings to mind the TV commercials of several decades ago about which the early feminists were up in arms because they were demeaning to women. Except now the roles are reversed. Imagine a commercial featuring a creature that's half woman and half vacuum cleaner. Now imagine the uproar.

You've come a long way, baby. The battle between the sexes is over. And males lost.

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2:18 PM 8/12/2019

Women have come a long way, baby, but still too few garbage women

Women have made huge advancements into jobs that a few decades ago were dominated by men. But those are clean jobs.

Having worked one summer during high school as a garbage man, I have great admiration and sympathy for those guys. I can say "guys" comfortably because they mostly still are guys. (How long before they start calling garbage men garbage persons?)

In any event, we'll have true sexual (gender) equality when there are an equal number of men and women garbage persons. As of now, according to BLS Labor Force Statistics for 2018, only 16.1% of the "waste management and remediation services" workforce consisted of women.

To be fair to trash haulers, there are a few other professions in which women don't measure up in numbers. Trucking (12.5%), logging (5.9%), coal mining (6.2%), construction (9.9%), and auto repair (9.7%), for example.

Get busy, gals. Get your hands dirty.

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3:37 PM 4/12/2019

OK, but can she cook? Do the dishes? -- man marries hologram

When that old love bug bites, there's nothing you can do about it. So this Japanese guy married a fictional Hatsune Miku who is available only in the form of a hologram.

See Crazy in love? The Japanese man 'married' to a hologram. He said he would never marry a real - he calls them 3D - woman.

In Japan, that wouldn't be entirely unusual nowadays. While in 1980, only one in 50 men had never married by the age of 50, that figure is now one in four. ...

Two-dimensional characters can't cheat, age or die, he points out. "I'm not seeking these in real women. It's impossible."

I wonder why he didn't consider a robotic sex doll?

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2:49 PM 11/12/2018

Harassment in the workplace -- government edition

This came to us by way of Politico's Playbook the other day. And it's a jaw dropping peak into the workings of a government agency when no one is watching, except the ones afraid to speak out.

At WaPo, it's FEMA personnel chief harassed women, hired some as possible sexual partners for male employees, agency’s leader says. Excerpt:

In an interview, [FEMA Administrator William “Brock”] Long described a “toxic” environment in the human resources department under [Corey] Coleman at FEMA headquarters. Starting in 2015, investigators said, Coleman hired many men who were friends and college fraternity brothers and women he met at bars and on online dating sites. He then promoted some of them to roles throughout the agency without going through proper federal hiring channels.

Coleman then transferred some of the women in and out of departments, some to regional offices, so his friends could try to have sexual relationships with them, according to employees’ statements during interviews with investigators.

Astonishing. Mr. Coleman seemed quite comfortable with the system he set up. And that is reason to believe it wasn't an isolated situation. One has to wonder how widespread this sort of corruption is within government agencies.

Photo source.

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10:48 AM 8/1/2018

Best headline of the week so far: BDSM community angry at Schneiderman’s ‘role-playing’ depiction

This has to be a high water mark in the "me too" movement, at least so far. From NYPost.com: BDSM community angry at Schneiderman’s ‘role-playing’ depiction. Here's a quote:

Ej Dickson, an editor with MensHealth.com who writes often about dating and sex, wrote Tuesday that the kink community “puts a premium on consent.”

“It is one of the very basic tenets of BDSM,” she wrote. “Often, sex acts will be negotiated beforehand in the form of contracts, and either way, anyone practicing BDSM responsibly will implement a ‘safe word’ to make it clear if they are uncomfortable with anything happening.”

Seems reasonable.

Each of those "me too" accusations are "he said she said" issues. But the precedent of the Bill Cosby case is that if enough complainants come forward, it's deemed true.

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10:22 AM 5/9/2018

Who is smarter, men or women? Not a fair question -- they are different

Every time I visit Carpe Diem I come away in awe of Mark J. Perry's research skill and analytical ability.

Take for example, this article: Women’s voices might be scarce in economics, but they are abundant and over-represented in most academic fields and graduate school overall. There he produces some charts showing that degree recipients in 10 fields of study -- 11 if you count "other" -- the number of females outnumber males in all but four categories: business, engineering, mathematics and computer science, and physical and earth science.

But hat really doesn't answer the tease question of who is smarter, it merely tells us men's and women's brains work differently.

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4:34 PM 2/5/2018

Talking sexbots -- but will they shut up?

With the fear of being accused of sexual assault hanging over the heads of every male in a relationship, is it any wonder why some see sexbots as the next best thing to a real girlfriend?

Now we are learning that sexbots are being programmed to talk. One might be tempted to ask, "Will I be able to shut her up?"

If they really want to gin up sales, they should build in a feature that will prepare meals and clean up the house.

Instead, we'll probably end up with robots with the ability to learn all we know and decide to take over. Just ask Stephen Hawking.  Hmm. Maybe they'll want to keep us around as pets.

Oh, by the way, best watch this public service announcement from Futurama: Don't date robots!

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2:50 PM 12/12/2017

negotiating the price for harassment claim

We're hearing about the $15 million paid by Congress to settle harassment claims.

Why don't any of those victims step up and talk? Their contracts not doubt say they would have to refund the money, and if there was enough money involved for any individual victim, then it might be enough to keep them quiet.

That brings to mind the old story about Winston Churchill in which he provided the punchline, "We've established what your are, we're just negotiating the price."

To be fair, at least one woman has stepped up to the challenge. See John Conyers settled complaint. Odds are that in the current atmosphere in Congress there will be moves to negate any non-disclosure provisions in those harassment settlements. So they can talk and keep the money.

Hey, there's a hashtag women should embrace: #having it both ways!

Meanwhile, there are at least two women who really, really, want to stay in the shadows: Lois Lerner and Holly Paz. Oh but of course, it's for the children.

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9:54 AM 11/21/2017

Women marching against sexual harassment must wonder why no one would want to give them CPR

There was an interesting juxtaposition in the morning paper. The top article screams, "Hundreds march against sexual harassment." But right below that one is this headline: "Study: Women less likely to get CPR from bystanders."

It's as if the top headline answers the question posed by the bottom one. Who'da thunk it?

Bonus: Democrats ridiculed VP Mike Pence when he said he wouldn't be alone with a woman other than his wife. After seeing the ancient claims of harassment coming out against Roy Moore, could any male blame him?

Beauty and the Beast, the fairy tale life of Harvey Weinstein

If I remember the story of Beauty and the Beast correctly, the beauty was held captive by a scary looking but very rich beast like man. But in the end, the beauty acquiesced to whatever the beast wanted. One has to wonder if that fairy tale guided Harvey Weinstein in his conquests of young beauties.

I hate to sound cynical, but one has to wonder if it really was much of a moral dilemma for the young ladies who encountered Weinstein. Recall the video in which Donald Trump described to a wide eyed Billy Bush how acquiescent women are around men in power.

Reese Witherspoon contends that she was one of his victims. And if so, she certainly came out ahead of the game.

Deciding to go along with the beast and get a shot at fame and fortune rather than go home empty handed seems almost like a form of prostitution.

John Podhoretz describes how it is in Why Hollywood is the perfect hunting ground for pervs :

Unlike most other industries, the entertainment industry runs on scarcity. The unemployment rate in the United States is 4.2 percent right now. But for people who want to go before the cameras or stand at center stage, it’s closer to 90 percent — always has been, always will be.

What’s more, the jobs performers do get are mostly short-term and evanescent. This means the power imbalance between the person who doles out the work and the person who is looking for work is more extreme than in almost any other situation you can think of. Unless you’re a huge star, you’re often a supplicant. You live a life of almost constant rejection.

Those of us out here in flyover country can call showbiz aspirants either vulnerable or eager-to-please. Take your pick.

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8:25 AM 10/18/2017

While many commentators bash Hugh Hefner, a refreshing reminder from Camille Paglia

One doesn't have to look too hard these days following Hugh Hefner's death to find a feminist complaining about how awful they perceived him to be. So it's refreshing to get another take from a different kind of feminist. See Camille Paglia on Hugh Hefner's Legacy, Trump's Masculinity and Feminism's Sex Phobia.

She was asked about feminist icon, Gloria Steinem. After praising Steinem for starting Ms. Magazine and trying to normalize the image of feminism while others in the feminist movement were coming across as crazy man haters, she gets to the point. Here's an excerpt:

But aside from that, Steinem is basically a socialite who always hid her early dependence on men in the social scene in New York. And as a Democrat, I also blame her for having turned feminism into a covert adjunct of the Democratic party. I have always felt that feminism should transcend party politics and be a big tent welcoming women of faith and of all views into it. Also, I hold against Steinem her utter, shameless hypocrisy during the Bill Clinton scandal. After promoting sexual harassment guidelines, which I had also supported since the 1980s, Steinem waved away one of the worst cases of sexual harassment violation that can ever be imagined — the gigantic gap of power between the President of the United States and an intern! All of a sudden, oh, no, it was all fine, it was “private.”  What rubbish!  That hypocrisy by partisan feminist leaders really destroyed feminism for a long time. So now feminism has rebounded, but unfortunately it's a particularly virulent brand of feminism that’s way too reminiscent of the MacKinnon-Dworkin sex hysteria of the 1980s.

Enough about Steinem. What about Hugh Hefner? Well, she liked what he tried to teach men. More from the article:

We can see that what has completely vanished is what Hefner espoused and represented — the art of seduction, where a man, behaving in a courtly, polite and respectful manner, pursues a woman and gives her the time and the grace and the space to make a decision of consent or not. Hefner’s passing makes one remember an era when a man would ask a woman on a real date — inviting her to his apartment for some great music on a cutting-edge stereo system (Playboy was always talking about the best new electronics!) — and treating her to fine cocktails and a wonderful, relaxing time. Sex would emerge out of conversation and flirtation as a pleasurable mutual experience. So now when we look back at Hefner, we see a moment when there was a fleeting vision of a sophisticated sexuality that was integrated with all of our other aesthetic and sensory responses.

Many an adolescent male who came of age during Hefner's heyday looked at the magazine for the photos, not the articles. After all, males have always been more aroused by visuals than females. Hefner recognized that and made a fortune off of it. As for any cultural contributions, read Paglia.

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1:52 PM 10/2/2017

Instead of comparing DOD cost of transgender care to Viagra expenditures maybe we should ask why erectile dysfunction is a problem in the military

Some of the proponents of transgenders in the military have noted something. See Senator Tammy Duckworth: Military Should Cut Viagra Funding Before Trans Health Care:

On Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) rebuffed the claim that paying for transgender health care would cost the military too much, suggesting that the military could cut the fat in its budget by taking money away from service members' erectile dysfunction treatment.

Duckworth compared the $5.6 million the Defense Department (DOD) spent in 2016 on transgender health care to the $41 million DOD spent on Viagra and $84 million spent on erectile dysfunction.

She's pointing out what is obvious to most of us, and that's that the cost of transgender surgery and related medical costs probably isn't that much of the whole defense budget. There are probably plenty of defense department cost cutting measures that could be made with only a small minority feeling it.

But by making the comparison, she planted a question in a lot of our minds. Why is the DOD spending so much on Viagra? Are our military men having a hard time getting it up? These are young men in their primes. And most are probably in pretty good shape compared with the rest of us. So why are they having trouble below the belt?

There's a job for the VA is they run out of things to do.

Editors' notes: Do they call it PTSD -- Post traumatic soft d___? HA HA! Robo-ed. | Cut that out! Sleepless.

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2:59 PM 8/7/2017

Soooo, gotta date tonight? How to meet a mate the modern way.

This is a fascinating chart that showed up in my web surfing the other day. Although it's a few years old, one could probably extrapolate with the directions the various lines were moving at the time the survey was taken.

Looks like meeting at bars or restaurants took a dip and may be in a resurgence. However, the biggest jumper is "online." These days you can't watch TV without having to sit through a commercial for an online dating service. Is that because the industry is growing? Of is the industry growing as a result of the heavy use of TV commercials?

(The research was conducted by Michael J. Rosenfeld. Click on his name to see what else he's up to.)

From mental disorder to merely distressed -- how transvestites were transformed in four short years

Two movements that shot to the top in the last few years were gay marriage and transgender sex. Those of us out here in the unwoke flyover country were taken by surprise at how fast those two systems progressed past the point of no return.

Of particular interest is the status of those people who think they were born with the wrong genitalia. There was a time when someone who thought he/she was a man/woman born in a woman/man's body was considered to have a mental disorder. Not any more. Now, it's reversed. If you can't accept who they think they are, then you are the one with the mental disorder.

So it's nice to see Mark A. Hewitt addressing that in How the Left Hijacked the American Psychiatric Association and Normalized Personality Disorders. Here's an excerpt:

In 1987 homosexuality was struck from the DSM by a majority vote of the APA members. In 2012, transvestitism, was also eliminated from the DSM-5 (fifth edition), replaced gender identity disorder and further redefined and softened the previous personality disorder into gender dysphoria. The change in terminology removed all implication and designation that transvestitism was a mental illness. Dysphoria is defined as the distress a person experiences as a result of the sex and gender they were assigned at birth.

With transvestitism finally voted out of the DSM, in June 2015 LGBT rights groups had one urgent agenda item for President Barack Obama: End the ban on transgender people serving in the military. It wasn’t that transgender people were straining red rope barriers, lining up at recruiting stations to serve in the military in a rush of abject patriotism; no, acceptance into the military allowed transgenders free government-paid sexual reassignment surgery. No longer was transvestitism considered a mental disorder, it was now considered a medically correctable condition, like a cleft lip and palate.

It's probably fair to say, "follow the money," since recognition of gay marriage and transvestitism could qualify more people for government largess, whether sharing in spousal rights to government payouts or for subsidized sex change drugs and operations. But that's just part of it. The need for recognition for one's differentness has to factor in somehow, especially in the age of identity politics.

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2:19 PM 7/17/2017

If bathroom bills trigger suicides that pretty much confirms that the transgender condition is more mental than physical

There was a time not too awfully long ago when a person who identified as the opposite sex was thought to have a psychological problem. Special interest groups put so much pressure on the psychology industry that they acquiesced to the idea that it was no longer a disorder. These days someone who disagrees is a bigot, a redneck, a hillbilly, or a plain old, politically incorrect, curmudgeon.

But how do we square that with this: Texas House Speaker Didn’t Want Suicide Over ‘Bathroom Bill’:

“I’m not a lawyer, but I am a Texan,” said Straus, according to the magazine. “I’m disgusted by all this. Tell the lieutenant governor I don’t want the suicide of a single Texan on my hands.”

Aides to Straus did not return emails Monday.

The comment appeared to echo concerns raised by LGBT rights groups that efforts to restrict which bathrooms transgender people can use further marginalize a group of people who at least one recent survey has shown attempt suicide at a higher-than-average rate.

Well, I'm not a shrink, but I am a Texan, to paraphrase Speaker Straus. And it seems to me that if suicide is so common among transgender people, that should serve as evidence that there is a serious psychological issue at play here.

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1:16 PM 7/4/2017

I divorce thee, I divorce thee, I divorce thee -- Huma Abedin files

So Huma Abedin finally filed for divorce from Anthony Weiner. They separated last year, but there's a waiting period in Islamic law. We talked about this on these pages at Huma and Anthony, divorce Islamic style in which I speculated that she would wait the required period and even then would have to get permission from Hillary Clinton.

Hillary is famous for standing by her man, but with Hillary having lost the election, there was little to gain by forcing Huma to do it, too.

Meanwhile, NYPost.com almost expresses a small degree of sympathy for Weiner in The tragedy of Anthony Weiner but does acknowledge that New York dodged a bullet after Weiner refused to restrain his fetish and eventually lost the respect of the electorate.

His fetish was that he liked taking pictures of himself in his skivvies and texting them to women, at least one of whom was underage. He just had the wrong fetish. If only he liked to wear women's clothes he probably could have have been a keynote speaker at last summer's Democratic Party convention.

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1:36 PM 5/22/2017

Women on strike from smiling

I would like to report that this is fake news, but alas, it's the smiles that are fake. Some women are striking from smiling today. Here’s why.:

The “Day Without a Woman” strike on Wednesday may mean a day with fewer smiles.

While not every one plans to skip work, many who want to show solidarity with the growing feminist movement said they plan to strike from unpaid work that women disproportionately do, including cooking, cleaning and, some said, smiling.

More specifically, fake smiling.

They don't smile because they are happy or want to share a sense of pleasantness. They smile because they think they have to. The scene from Seinfeld comes to mind where Elaine exclaims, "Fake, fake, fake, fake." If you didn't see that show you'll probably still guess which emotional and physical response in the male/female relationship she was referring to.

Anyway, it's demoralizing to realize that any happy woman we happen to encounter may be a fraud. Although, to be fair, maybe it was naive to ever think otherwise.

Meanwhile, maybe that explains this other bit of news: Federal Employees Spend Hours Per Day Gaping at Pornography. The federal workforce must be one depressed bunch of bureaucrats with the women angry at smilers and men absorbed in internet porn. On the bright side, it's probably better for the rest of us that they internalize their unhappiness than obsessing over an election outcome they abhor and plotting to make their political opponents look bad.

A day without women drivers

Heard on Fox News that the Day Without Immigrants wasn't much of a movement success, but it was enough to encourage feminists to want a Day Without Women. Does this mean a day without women drivers? I'm exited!

I drive an old vehicle. At almost 30 years old it should qualify as a classic, but it's just old, slow, and unintimidating. I joke to friends that it's a chick magnet, because gals are always honking at me. The last time was when I made a right turn onto a street a half block from a line of cars stopped at a red light. The light changed before I completed the turn, and some chick in an SUV sped up, got right on my tail, and leaned on her horn.

I got the message. She had the hots for me. I motioned for her to follow me and turned right at the next intersection. But I guess she got cold feet. Anyway, for a moment I was inspired to buy one of those rear window digital signs and have it ready to spell out, "Honk if you need a MAN" for those occasions.

Yeah, I know, she didn't want me, she wanted to dominate the road. I'm just grateful she didn't slam into me out of innate hostility. But let's set the rudeness aside and talk about another aspect of sharing the streets with women.

Men are generally afraid to talk about women drivers, else they be called sexist. It takes a fearless soul like Milo Yiannopoulos to go public with it. See ‘Femsteering,’ the crippling disability endangering our roads. Here's a sampling:

The phenomenon is known as “femsteering,” and it describes the almost total inability of any woman to competently operate an automobile. Though whispered about on men’s rights forums, in working men’s clubs and on the pages of tabloid newspapers for decades, this is the first time the trend has been discussed in the open in a serious publication. ...

Scientists are on the side of the men in this discussion, stating that men have one standard deviation higher spatial intelligence quotient than women and lower reaction times, which may explain the whites in pedestrians’ eyes when they discern a mop of blond hair in the car approaching them, and why no woman on the planet can merge lanes without having a minor meltdown.

So are they going to have that Day Without Women? Bring it on. It will be such a relaxing experience to drive that day.

Feminists in a bind -- they have to support Muslim women's right to choose to subjugate themselves

Seems ironic to me. But then, we've all witnessed progressives twisting themselves into pretzels trying to reconcile what they say with what has gone on before.

As Muslim women celebrate their freedom* to wear the hijab, most of us are remembering the abuse women suffer in certain Muslim dominated countries when they don't adhere to Sharia law. Some of those acts against them are so horrific I hate to even think about them.

That may be the attitude of American feminists -- they don't even want to think about it. They celebrate their own freedom by parading with pussycat hats. Did they celebrate world hijab day, too? After all, both events involved a prominent display of head covers.

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*Sharia law is freedom to the ardent jihadist -- the freedom from making decisions.

Anthony Weiner had the wrong fetish -- if he liked to wear a dress Dems would call him heroic

Let's face it, what he likes to do must be some sort of rare but growing fetish involving cameras and the internet. In his case, it's snapping a pic of himself in his skivvies and posting them online. It's doesn't turn most of us on, but obviously he gets off on it.

So Dems, give him a break. If he came out as transsexual, he would be a cocktail party favorite, and Dems would be patting themselves on the back about how tolerant they are.

Unfortunately for Weiner, his fetish falls somewhat in the porn category, and that four letter word, we are told by feminists, describes a terrible thing.

Maybe it's the luck of the draw that some of us came out hetero, some homo, some cross dressers, and some like Weiner, who gets off by taking sexy selfies. If only Weiner had come out as homosexual or transgender, he would be a hero in the class of tolerant Democrats in which he wants to circulate.

Government should apply the same standard of guilt they applied to Hillary Clinton to everyone

Aside from die hard Hillary Clinton fans, just about everyone who watched this unfold thought she was guilty of something. But now we learn that FBI Director James Comey has given her a pass because of lack of intent. We should all be so lucky.

Books have been written about the myriad of laws ordinary people violate without even knowing it. But Hillary Clinton was given a pass because there was no intent to harm the United States.

OK. She lacked a criminal mind. So let's apply this standard to all laws and do away with those that don't require intent.

P.S. Ms. Clinton seems to have pleaded ignorance of those complicated computers, servers, and all that confusing software and jargon. How many of her fans buy that? In particular, how many of those who will vote for her because she's a woman buy that? There's this pesky stereotype out there about women and computers. But surely most women know their way around technology these days. Hillary is the exception. Isn't she?

Transgenders now choose their bathrooms -- will male prison inmates get to move to women's prisons? Roger Corman, get your camera ready.

Some stores have given in to transgender bathroom usage. School districts are grappling with the issue, especially with the Obama administration breathing down their necks.

Now, with Obama getting more and more liberal with convicts, it seems only a matter of time before transgender inmates get to declare whether they are male or female and serve time in a prison designated for the sex they declared.

It sounds like something out of a Roger Corman movie. In case you don't remember him, he earned millions making B grade sexploitation movies in the 60s and 70s with titles like "Women in Cages," "The Big Bird Cage," and "Caged Heat."

Coming soon to a theater near you: "Man Trapped in a Woman's Body Trapped in a Women's Prison."

So you want "meternity" leave -- you have it already, it's called vacation time

And yet people want to blame someone other than the women because as a collective, women don't make as much money as men.

Most companies allow employees vacation time or personal time. But the employee doesn't have to use it all at once, and they don't have to go to Disney World. It shouldn't come as a shock that many people don't go anywhere on their vacations, and prudent schedulers will use the time for other things they find necessary to do besides ride the roller coaster.

So when we see articles like this one: I want all the perks of maternity leave — without having any kids it makes one wonder if the work place really is the right place for her.

If she can't stand the heat, perhaps she should go back to the kitchen.

Clinton is getting ready to deal her victim card, too

Donald Trump is promising to go after Hillary Clinton, and for starters he informs us that she's playing the woman's card. He's probably right that she really wouldn't have gotten far in the primaries were she a man. [Hey, these days a person can be either -- it's just a state of mind.]

However, it might be well to remember Clinton's run for senator in the year 2000. Rick Lazio, her opponent, committed the unpardonable sexist crime of getting in her personal space during a debate. Whoa! Victimized by a man. He paid a price for that!

Although most people sensed it when someone got too close, most of us had not heard the notion of a personal space put into such articulate and partisan words until then. So there's another thing a Clinton taught us -- the most educational was that oral sex wasn't sex.

Women are said to dislike Trump. And any one of them who buys into her own victimhood status constantly preached by Democrats will likely sympathize with Hillary when Trump starts in with the school yard insults. He won't have to violate her personal space, all he has to do is offend her sensibility. Look at how feminists tried to play the victim card for Megyn Kelly.

But it will be so much fun to watch. Here's hoping he gives it to her good.

That we would have this transgender bathroom dispute proves how opulent and privileged we are here in the US

While aggrieved groups get high and mighty about those among us who aren't ready to open up bathrooms to people of the opposite sex, they should take a look at what's happening in the Middle East. The people who comprise the largest group of recent immigrants into Europe and the U.S. are telling us that they wouldn't especially want to adhere to our tired old ethics.

They prefer their tired old ethics. See these two headlines for samplers. Saudi family therapist releases helpful video on how to beat your wife the Islamic way; and Editor of LGBT magazine hacked to death in Bangladesh.

I've said previously about the bathroom issue that even though this movement to accommodate a tiny minority of attention demanding individuals seems to be pushing the grievance privilege a bit far, the unisex bathroom idea doesn't bother me.

But it all seems so petty when compared with what's happening over there.

What is it about the word "no" that women don't understand when they're dispensing cake and ice cream?

Yesterday I attended a going away party for a friend, and as advertised, there was abundant cake and ice cream. There were well meaning women who cut the cake, put it on plates, and carried the pieces around to the attendees. Kudos to them. They were so kind.

However, I'm avoiding sweets and didn't intend to eat any of it in spite of the numerous, kind, offers. Too bad a simple "No thank you" was not a satisfactory answer. Over and over again I had to explain that I didn't want any and face down the look of someone who thinks I'm crazy. It grew tiresome.

No means no. What is it about the word "no" that women don't understand?

Post script. I remembered a former alcoholic friend who quit going to his favorite restaurant. The reason, he explained, was that they practically forced him to drink. I scoffed at that at the time. But now it makes perfect sense.

Defending Bill Cosby

With public opinion piling on, Bill Cosby's attorneys and publicists have a big job. But it's not too hard to figure out a course of action.

At the time Cosby's transactions were alleged to occur women were thought to be a little bit smarter when it came to men than they are now. If a man asked a woman to take a bunch of pills and drink a bunch of wine, she was thought to be smart enough to figure out what he was up to. Not now, apparently. But the current standards are being applied.

Surely Cosby's reputation among single females must have been a clue to his alleged victims as to what he might do. No one knew, you say? Well, one of his alleged victims is fond of saying that no one believed her. So she had to have told someone. And while the recipients of this information may not have wanted to get on Cosby's bad side, surely they gossiped about it behind his back. It's hard to imagine that word didn't spread like wildfire.

There's another factor here. According to a damning editorial at WaPo, "Mr. Cosby’s own words in a deposition in a civil suit brought by Ms. Constand damn him; he acknowledged securing drugs with the aim of giving them to young women he wanted to have sex with." It isn't too far fetched to think that some women might consent to sex in exchange for drugs. Nor is it far fetched to think they may be faced later with either admitting that or saving face and claiming rape.

The upcoming trial(s) could be very revealing.

Finally, we saw how some black Americans cheered when O.J. Simpson was found not guilty. More recently we watched as some black Americans made heroes/martyrs out of the likes of Michael Brown. Where are they now?

In any event, Cosby's attorneys and publicists are set to have a big payday. And the rest of us are set to watch a salacious show.