"A friend’s daughter recently started at a highly regarded boarding school. When her mother asked how she was enjoying the mixed-sex environment, the girl said quietly: 'You have to give the boys oral sex or they get cross.' Reeling with shock, the mum protested that her darling daughter did not have to do anything of the sort. 'Oh yes you do,' replied the girl. 'And you have to shave down there or the boys don’t like it.' The girl in question is not some brazen,…
I’ve often wondered these several decades of my political awareness why the term “Uncle Tom” is used by modern liberals as an epithet. As is easy to do in our Internet age, a quick read of the Wikipedia entry on “Uncle Tom” gives the basic outline, but given I seem to be immersed in antebellum America lately, having read “What Hath God Wrought” and having just watched the PBS series “The Abolitionists” I figured it would be a good time to finally read “Uncle Tom’s…
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