xJane
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- I’m surprised this hasn't entered the discussion yet, but every time you spend $12 on a salad, every time you watch the Colbert Report, you are voting. You are voting with you dollars (which arguably carry more weight: did you
(posted to I can't vote...) - Yeah, and you should see Fox News' coverage of the march. Disgusting what counts for journalism in this country.
(posted to On the march at the DNC) - I look at it like this: in the primary election (in California, I don't know how it was in other states), I could not vote in the Republican primary, because I'm not a Republican. The outcome of that primary certainly
(posted to I can't vote...) - I've also heard some evidence pointing to the fact that pain in childbirth is a similarly social construction. It would be interesting to know how we would react to our bodies if we were brought up in a space that
(posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
Responses to Comments from xJane
- And actually, "IS" can mean a lot of different things in our language. Philosophy of Language is one of the Areas of Competence that I emerged from my PhD program with, if you'd like to go into a more detailed (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
- You are failing to engage. You simply cherry-pick phrases you want to repond to. That's not replying, it's just arguing how right you are. "Come now?", "... if I so choose", "...bizarre": pleas engage, and stop being so belligerent. You (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
- I welcome you "questioning the explanatory framework": we need this sort of inquiry; my god, we need it. This had potential to be quite a stimulating topic, and it did attract some real interest. It is not only what you (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
- One last thing: the irony is, I think there's a chance we'd agree on quite a lot. (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
- I think that your readers, good feminists from any wave, would be more comfortable with this post if you titled it something along the lines of "The misuse of the term PMS has further marginalized women" which is, of course, (posted to PMS is a Social Construction)
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