In response to Claire’s article on the San Francisco bill to ban infant male circumcision, I have decided to sketch what the case for banning really is. I’m going to structure this by reviewing the common (usually unarticulated) reasons for supporting circumcision, and then I’ll make the case against it. Firstly, some...
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This morning on Talk Radio 702 Redi Tlhabi interviewed DA leader Helen Zille. Amongst other things, they talked about the dreaded open toilet fiasco. The issue has been talked about a lot, so I just want to make a quick comment. HZ took the opportunity to lay out her version of what happened in an attempt to explain why the DA...
read moreIt is an obvious fact that two kinds of people will read this: men, and women. It is less obvious that women will know already what the ongoing “I like it on the…” Facebook meme was about, while many men will not. The trend, of women posting where they “like it”, is about handbags. It is a follow on to January’s...
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