Suzanne Fields

SUZANNE FIELDS: Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Warren on feminist collision course

Back in the day when Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem were in high school and a new girl walked into the classroom, the boys looked to see whether she was a pretty one, and the girls looked to see what she had to offer to their cliques. The boys evaluated looks, the girls personality.

December 17, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: Feminists victimize men with rape of reputation

Feminism is entering a new phase of the movement. You could call it the era of mea culpa. Feminism has rightly claimed "victim" status at the mercy of rapists, and now certain women have turned the tables and are making victims of men, but with slander, the rape of reputation. This isn't an "epidemic," as feminists have said rape is an epidemic, but the numbers are significant enough to make the headlines.

December 10, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: Facebook threats words for Supreme Court to parse

When the chief justice of the United States recites lyrics from a rap song about violence and murder, you can bet he's not rehearsing for a shot on "Saturday Night Live." He's inquiring into the redeeming value of the crude and coarsened language of social media in the digital age.

December 3, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: Bill Cosby’s middle-class message of racial equality survives scandal

What's fascinating about the coverage of the persuasive accusations against Bill Cosby, now 18 and rising, is that race doesn't dominate. There's an outcry at the abuse of women, and he's shredded the healthy black-father family man image he carefully cultivated on his sitcom, but you don't read or hear notice taken of the fact that the women who say he drugged and raped them were usually white.

November 26, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: Emma Sulkowicz and misreading the cry of rape

If Aesop were here he might rewrite his famous fable, replacing the boy who cried "wolf!" with the girl who cried "rape!" The cry of "rape" is used so carelessly that it's often impossible to get to the truth of an accusation. When rape was a capital offense it was a rare and vicious crime which required a court of law to apply justice. It was underreported, since the rapist usually took advantage of those who felt too vulnerable even to say anything about it.

November 19, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: The taboos crumble, and free speech is threatened

The more vulgar the culture gets, the more squeamish the keepers of the rules.

November 12, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: A big night for congressional Wonder Woman

Wonder Woman is home from the war on women, a "war" fought mostly in the fantasies of embattled Democrats, and she sounds like a Republican who looks a lot like Joni Ernst of Iowa.

November 5, 2014

FIELDS: The Berlin Wall, back to the future

Americans groove on the exhilaration of argument and accusation as the midterm elections finally approach, but here in Germany, there's the bitter remembrance of what it was like to have none of the above.

October 29, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: Troubled times for Angela Merkel

Angela Merkel tops the Forbes magazine list of the hundred most powerful women in the world for the fourth consecutive year, but these are difficult days for the German chancellor.

October 22, 2014

SUZANNE FIELDS: A different gunfight at Gender Gap

The Democratic "war on women" has fallen into a time warp, and it's losing traction.

October 15, 2014

FIELDS: Gone is the girl who can’t say ‘no’

Gay blades, weary of the indulgent life of easy gratification, want the courts to guarantee their right to marry. Stuffy straights demand that politicians legislate their partner's sexual intentions. The times, they are indeed a-changin'.

October 8, 2014

FIELDS: God, woman and free speech at Yale

When Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the brave human-rights activist and a native of Somalia, spoke at Yale last week, 300 students turned out to listen. Others were turned away because security was so tight. The sponsors were almost apologetic because there was no controversy.

October 1, 2014