About me: High-school student from New York, avid reader of feminist and political blogs, thinker of thinky thoughts. I'm interested in the legal side of stuff, sometimes.
That's why marriage bans lose in court. There is no legal leg to stand on and most judges acknowledge that. It does much better against the voting public because people don't bother to fact check propaganda. That's a really good (posted to Jon Stewart calls Huckabee out on hypocrisy of gay marriage bans. )
Yeah, God is...apparently pretty cool with slavery, if you read the Bible. And the Bible does talk about rape. If an unbetrothed virgin is raped, she has to marry the rapist, because it's not that she was assaulted, of course, (posted to The Bible silent on rape?)
So? It's still slavery. Foreign slaves served for life. And killing a slave isn't murder. (posted to The Bible silent on rape?)
See, this is why I love midrash. :D I also read another interpretation in a Renaissance Christian feminist text - that, rather than woman being subservient because she was created from man's rib, that this was done to signify "that (posted to A Jewish Feminist view of the creation)
See, I'd heard that rhyme before, but it was about sexual harassment. Stop! (stop hand) Don't touch me there! This is (making square with hands) my private square! R! A! P! E! Get that thing away from me! Everyone made (posted to What We Missed)
It frustrates me, as a feminist, to watch my 14 year old step-daughter read these books. She hasn't just read them- she reads them over and over and over. This is an otherwise very intelligent young woman, with plenty of (posted to Yes, another Twilight post.)
The city has managed to keep the ruins, which age of two thousand years! Today, the centre of the European attraction, Grenoble is at top of technological development. Hospitable and opened, Grenoble waits for you! (posted to Using Google Books to spread the feminist love)
What upsets me as much as the story about the women firefighters, are the comments from the readers of the Houston newspaper. Most of them are saying that these women did these things to themselves, ignoring the fact that both (posted to What We Missed)
The issue is a privacy issue. There's something wrong with photographing a women's erogenous zones without permission and the law needs to reflect that. The law can't govern male sexual desire. But it can change the way the concept of (posted to Update about "Porn in a Flash" quote. )
