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• mazel tov! and yes, he is definitely cute. marriage is what you make of it.
  (posted to Does the personal <em>always</em> have to be political? (And can't it ever be private?))
• I had waited eagerly for my period since I was around 9, in 4th grade...... In 6th grade all my friends got their periods and I said I had gotten mine too. Finally, the summer before 7th grade, my brother,
  (posted to <em>My Little Red Book</em>)
• I'm thinking about donating my eggs to help a bit with college. I don't want kids, and I ovulate every month, right on time, very fertile. I feel like I have something that I don't want, that other people do
  (posted to Selling Eggs)
• he is one of the most sexist guys I've seen in a long time. And I have a hobby of hanging out with social conservatives for fun. If you saw the comments, there were only 3. the last one( it
  (posted to A Classic Example of Male Privilege, Much to His Dismay)
• It did come off racist, especially the way I summarized what he wrote, but I think it was less about the "submissiveness" of Japanese women, which is bullshit, and more about the fact that in general, he's found an attitude
  (posted to Apathy in the Face of Violence)

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• Bingo. The bystander passivity wasn't from fear of being injured so much as believing that avoiding butting in to others' business is more important than preventing violence. That was my postmortem read, at least. (posted to Apathy in the Face of Violence)
• I think we have to separate race and culture here, no? I take unapologetic issue with certain facets of Japanese culture, but obviously these are evolved cultural norms and nothing to do with being ethnically Japanese. (posted to Apathy in the Face of Violence)
• Thanks for the comments, guys. Didn't have any idea the post had made it over here until I saw inbound links from feministing today. In response to thoughts on rape permissiveness in Japanese society: you've got it half right. Women (posted to Apathy in the Face of Violence)
• You explained the difference very well...nice to read it. (posted to A Classic Example of Male Privilege, Much to His Dismay)
• 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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