Egyptian man is made to provide DNA for paternity test

We all have watched by accident or on purpose at some point in our lives the television talk show, the "Maury Povich Show" where there is a woman sitting on the stage crying about how her "baby's daddy" will not claim his child while the audience looks at footage taken of the child at play backstage, Meanwhile, the "baby's daddy" comes on the stage to publicly humiliate the woman. Throughout the hour long show you hear, "Naw that baby don't look nothing like me look at him!" Well this story is not unique to men in the U.S.; however, the repercussions of paternity cases in patriarchal Islamic societies such as Egypt are tragic:

On February 25, Egyptian courts ordered DNA testing to determine paternity in a suit filed by 27-year-old On February 25, Egyptian courts ordered DNA testing to determine paternity in a suit filed by 27-year-old Hind al-Hinnawy. The ruling may help establish a precedent placing the burden of proof in paternity disputes on the male.
Until then, such cases were judged on the basis of witness testimony, a dubious method that subjected the plaintiff to public humiliation without guaranteeing a just verdict. Egypt's new Family Court scored a triumph by demanding DNA evidence - a simple, reliable determinant that could entitle thousands of women to child support. Without a marriage contract, women cannot obtain birth certificates or give their babies a legal identity; only the man, or alternatively his father, can make the birth official. Hinnawy says she had an urfi (private, unregistered) marriage. The man in question, Ahmed al-Fishawi, denied they'd been married or had sex.

Women still have far to go

What is this secret? It’s this: that after 30 years of advancement, lack of experience, credentials or commitment cannot explain the continuing gap in achievement between men and women.

Women are still failing to actualize advancement and achievment in levels such as men. According to the article, "it is possible that other women who have advanced may be the cause of more women not advancing."

Whether it is the “micro-inequalities” cited in a MIT study, or blatant sexism, it is now clear to many fair-minded people that women are being held back from achieving at the highest levels of society.

I wonder has this observation been extended to women of color as well?

The changing face of sexual abusers

Whenever a case of sexual molestation or abuse has arisen, it is always assumed that the perpretrators are male. Lately, Catholic priests have been added to the description of sexual predators and offenders. Now there is a new face of a sexual predator or abuser -- women.

Shortage of African American teachers

There is a shortage of African American men wanting to teach. Teaching and nursing have always been professions that are dominated by women. However, this trend is beginning to have an adverse affect on African American boys. Reportedly, "at least 42 percent of African American males have failed a grade by the time that they have reached high school and 60 percent will not graduate from high school ".

This is a serious issue for African American males because African American children are more than likely to be raised in a home where there is not a constant male figure. This story should be more mainstream.

Promiscuity's double standards

Post-modernistic result of the feminist role in the sexual revolution: young women are looking to score just like young men. However, the female still gets labeled as a whore. Is it possible that the feminist movement that demands women take charge of their lives and sexuality forgotten to past the memo on to men that it is okay for women to be skanky too?

While it's generally considered OK for today's college women to want sex, it's clearly not OK for them to want it too much. That would make them skanks, sluts, couches or ho's, while male libertines are called players. When a woman makes the morning trek back to the dorm after the previous night's hookup, it's dubbed the "walk of shame." For men, it's the "stride of pride."

Men are being beat down too

If you have seen the television show, "Cops" you know domestic violence is real despite the patriarchial society that we do live in, where most men not all members of the patriarchy systematically use "power and control" to oppress women. Oppression is institionalized here in the US beginning with the less wages that women are paid on their jobs down to the men who slap up or beat down their wives or girlfriends. However, a new trend in domestic violence is taking place now, men are becoming victims of domestic violence. According to a Nov., 1998 report by the National Institute of Justice Centers for Disease Control and Prevention National Violence Against Women Survey, everyday 1,510,455 women and 834,732 men are victims of physical violence by an intimate, which translate into every 37.8 seconds a man in America is being beaten. Also, every 20.9 seconds a woman in America is being beaten. It is fair to say that men and women are aware that domestic violence is not gender specific. Now, if only police and women only domestic violence shelters could realize the same thing.

Domestic violence ideology all begins with a flawed premise that evolves out of the gender feminist belief that America is a Patriarchal society. All men are considered stereotypical members, or beneficiaries of Patriarchy (male privilege). All members of the Patriarchy thereby: have "power and control," systematically use "power and control" to oppress women, resort to violence to maintain "power and control over women."

UK's post modern views on feminism

In the UK, it appears that women may be the deciding factor on who will be the new prime minister of the country. Muriel Gray author of this editorial, "soft issues such as childcare or abortion rights are issues that are less significant than what is going on from a global perspective." I do not believe abortion rights or childcare should ever become an issue that is insignificant to any country's domestic policy. According to Gray, "Due to the proliferation of feminist rhetoric or ideology, women are withdrawing away from the embrace of feminism and are taking the post-modernist view about feminism" -- sexism is alive and well in the UK.