<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" version="2.0"><channel><title>Commentary @ desertlightjournal.blog-city.com</title><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/</link><description>(Commentary) </description><copyright>Copyright 2008 desertlightjournal.blog-city.com</copyright><generator></generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:19:00 GMT</lastBuildDate><image><title>Commentary @ desertlightjournal.blog-city.com</title><url>http://server1.blog-city.com/images/bc_v5_logo_small.gif</url><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/</link></image><ttl>360</ttl><docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss</docs><item><title>The DLJ Goes Dark</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_dlj_goes_dark.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_dlj_goes_dark.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 26 Nov 2006 10:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fdlj%5Fgoes%5Fdark</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[This will be my last post here at the DLJ blog. My decision to discontinue posting here is actually far more positive than it may seem. That’s because my current situation will allow me to focus on the thing that got me into activism and publis]]></description><category>blogcity</category><category>blogging</category><category>domestic violence</category><category>mens issues</category><category>male victims</category><category>cooking</category></item><item><title>I have to say something here…</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/i_have_to_say_something_here.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/i_have_to_say_something_here.htm</link><pubDate>Sat, 12 Aug 2006 06:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=i%5Fhave%5Fto%5Fsay%5Fsomething%5Fhere</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[There is yet another hunger strike by a disenfranchised father going on. I have been asked to support this action, and have ignored all requests.
That’s because this particular strategy has been proven wrong, not only by many good Irishmen in]]></description><category>activism</category><category>mens rights</category></item><item><title>Dave Winer is Right About Sexism</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/davewinersexism.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/davewinersexism.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 11 Aug 2006 09:43:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=davewinersexism</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As a woman of education and influence, I feel diminished and insulted by events such as BlogHer, because that is precisely what they are designed to do. They have been created in order to congregate angry women who feel the rules of society don't app]]></description><category>blogging</category><category>civil rights</category><category>davewiner</category><category>feminism</category><category>sexism</category><category>hate</category></item><item><title>Inclusion, not division</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/genderdivision.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/genderdivision.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2006 01:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=genderdivision</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The basic divisiveness of events like BlogHer is the reason I try not to comment on them. Why add more fuel to the fire of those who would set us against each other, while claiming to be "progressive" in some way?
Dave Winer, who atte]]></description><category>feminism</category><category>human rights</category></item><item><title>Hey kids, this is so sick I cannot begin to imagine. It IS racism!</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/hey_kids_this_is_so_sick_i_cannot_begin_to_imagine_it_is_rac.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/hey_kids_this_is_so_sick_i_cannot_begin_to_imagine_it_is_rac.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 01 Aug 2006 21:01:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=hey%5Fkids%5Fthis%5Fis%5Fso%5Fsick%5Fi%5Fcannot%5Fbegin%5Fto%5Fimagine%5Fit%5Fis%5Frac</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The original of the ugliness is below. They talk about "anti-racism" yet fail to see their basic problem. 
These are our tax diollars at work.
 
 
http://www.capd.org/projs_pubs/FlippingTheScript.pdf
 
Flipping the]]></description><category>racism</category></item><item><title>NOW at 40: a Leftist Legacy</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/nowat40.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/nowat40.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Jul 2006 10:19:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=nowat40</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The other day, this article in the Christian Science Monitor caught my eye. Entitled, NOW at 40: What's left to do? The subhead on the article was: Feminists rocked the 1970s and '80s, profoundly changing US society. Today's challenges are more subtl]]></description><category>gender</category><category>womens issues</category><category>empowerment</category><category>family</category><category>gender bias</category><category>hate</category><category>equality</category><category>education</category><category>communism</category><category>now</category><category>current affairs</category><category>culture</category><category>hate propaganda</category><category>mens rights issues</category><category>gender issues</category><category>domestic violence</category><category>women</category><category>divorce</category><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>Getting back to normal</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/getting_back_to_normal.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/getting_back_to_normal.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2006 08:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=getting%5Fback%5Fto%5Fnormal</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Well, close anyway. Got another month of PT ahead, but there are a lot of things I can do again.
I have really missed getting on the blog and opining! So much has happened in the last month, it&rsquo;s like embarking on a whole new venture. 
Anyhoo]]></description></item><item><title>Another crack in the crumbling feminist facade</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/feminist_facade.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/feminist_facade.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2006 06:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=feminist%5Ffacade</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The ridiculous feminist notion that housework is some kind of example of patriarchal oppression has always puzzled me.]]></description><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>A feel-good strategy gone wrong</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/feelgood.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/feelgood.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 18 May 2006 12:13:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=feelgood</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[– how “corporate responsibility” distorts the truth and harms the real victims]]></description><category>mens issues</category><category>womens issues</category><category>hate propaganda</category><category>gender issues</category><category>vawa</category><category>domestic violence</category><category>activism</category><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>A Watershed Moment For Men’s Issues?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/a_watershed_moment_for_mens_issues.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/a_watershed_moment_for_mens_issues.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 16 May 2006 14:15:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=a%5Fwatershed%5Fmoment%5Ffor%5Fmens%5Fissues</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[It may well be as Dean pointed out yesterday, when one of the accused Duke lacrosse players protested his innocence on national TV. I saw a later airing, and in concert with the subsequent commentary from a person supposedly related to the alleged vi]]></description><category>current affairs</category><category>mens rights issues</category><category>activism</category><category>mens rights</category><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>Piling up on Liz Claiborne</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/piling_up_on_liz_claiborne.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/piling_up_on_liz_claiborne.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 15 May 2006 13:34:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=piling%5Fup%5Fon%5Fliz%5Fclaiborne</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Richard Davis and I are coincidentally talking about the excesses and disinformation of Liz Claiborne, Inc in separate articles at the Price of Liberty today.]]></description><category>current affairs</category><category>domestic violence</category><category>activism</category></item><item><title>The Fatal Flaws of Conventional Wisdom</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_fatal_flaws_of_conventional_wisdom.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_fatal_flaws_of_conventional_wisdom.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2006 11:44:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Ffatal%5Fflaws%5Fof%5Fconventional%5Fwisdom</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’ve seen amazing things happen for couples who, when they go through a rough patch as marriages inevitably do, decide that divorce is not the answer.]]></description><category>marriage</category><category>family</category><category>children</category></item><item><title>Re-thinking rural America</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/rethinking_rural_america.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/rethinking_rural_america.htm</link><pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2006 11:29:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=rethinking%5Frural%5Famerica</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Fifty years ago, there was a big difference between the cities and the rural areas, but a lot of what used to define those differences is gone.]]></description><category>current affairs</category><category>culture</category></item><item><title>Netizens Misbehaving - a Possible Solution</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/netizens_misbehaving__a_possible_solution.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/netizens_misbehaving__a_possible_solution.htm</link><pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 19:09:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=netizens%5Fmisbehaving%5F%5Fa%5Fpossible%5Fsolution</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[As I heard someone say today, we’re still trying to design the boat, even though we have to keep on rowing. So I think it’s probably a good idea for all of us who use the internet to begin promoting a bit more sophistication in the way we deal wi]]></description><category>technology</category><category>gender issues</category><category>instapundit</category><category>citizen journalism</category><category>internet</category></item><item><title>Duke Rape case - From the comments section</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/duke_comment.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/duke_comment.htm</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Apr 2006 12:06:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=duke%5Fcomment</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Every once in a while, a comment comes up that is just too good to overlook. I've reproduced this one in its entirety.]]></description><category>duke</category></item><item><title>misogyny,misandry, and accusation</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/misognymisandry_and_accusation.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/misognymisandry_and_accusation.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 16:22:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=misognymisandry%5Fand%5Faccusation</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I'm not really sure I get the gist of Cathy's Young's post here.  It's what I get, I guess, for staying up half the night thinking about a radio thing. Which went well, by the way, from my end. But Cathys generally on the right track. 
In anoth]]></description><category>now</category><category>child custody</category><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>Look for me on Sirius radio - Court TV</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/dukelacrosse.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/dukelacrosse.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 21 Apr 2006 06:59:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=dukelacrosse</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[The issue is the Duke lacrosse players -- should the accuser's name be released? I say yes -- she should be able to stand behind her accusation, on equal terms with the men being accused.]]></description><category>men</category><category>duke</category><category>gender issues</category><category>feminism</category></item><item><title>The blogosphere vs. human nature</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_blogosphere_vs_human_nature.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/the_blogosphere_vs_human_nature.htm</link><pubDate>Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:45:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=the%5Fblogosphere%5Fvs%5Fhuman%5Fnature</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I’m not disillusioned at all about the way things are going, in fact, I just keep finding more things to get excited about.]]></description><category>technology</category><category>blogosphere</category><category>tags</category><category>blogging</category><category>internet</category></item><item><title>Do people think they&apos;re alone online?</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/do_people_think_theyre_alone_online.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/do_people_think_theyre_alone_online.htm</link><pubDate>Fri, 14 Apr 2006 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=do%5Fpeople%5Fthink%5Ftheyre%5Falone%5Fonline</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[I don't know whether it's a weird quirk of human nature, or simple ignorance of how the Internet works, but there always seems to be somebody with a website who doesn't apparently know that website is open - literally - for the world to see.]]></description><category>current affairs</category><category>myspace</category></item><item><title>Sentencing women who murder</title><guid isPermaLink="true">http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/sentencing_women.htm</guid><link>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/sentencing_women.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 13 Apr 2006 13:26:00 GMT</pubDate><comments>http://desertlightjournal.blog-city.com/console/comments/popup/?f=sentencing%5Fwomen</comments><dc:creator>Trudy W. Schuett</dc:creator><description><![CDATA[Women, particularly mothers, are given a wide range of excuses upon which to draw when it comes to violent acts against their families.]]></description><category>current affairs</category><category>vawa</category><category>crime</category><category>domestic violence</category><category>murder</category><category>mary winkler</category><category>feminism</category></item></channel></rss>