I hadn't originally been able to find much more information on the case - and accept that it is more complicated than was presented in Roth's article. Thanks to community posters for further links. I had (subsequent to my original (posted to A Woman in Labour is/can be Incompetent??)
Re: Wolf-Whistling Competition in "Ireland" I had noticed (and cringed at) that on Feministing myself! (@Flowers has already posted the link.) I'm proud to be Irish but like every nation we have our fair share of sexism/misogyny to combat. It (posted to What we Missed.)
I posted about this in community feministing - which sparked some interesting though brief responses. I think the case raises important questions but not the ones I initially thought... see the post to get a fuller picture of this case (posted to What We Missed)
LN8o - I'm just replying here to similar comment at the original community post. I think you are entirely right about the Salon piece. I must also say that the more I read about and understand this case (including the (posted to What We Missed)
Re: Mother has child taken away after C Section refusal article: The court's decision cites hospital records that describe the mother, V.M., as "combative," "uncooperative," "erratic," "noncompliant," "irrational" and "inappropriate." HOW many times are we going to call women "crazy" (posted to What We Missed)
Yeah I know; I remember both those episodes. I didn't mean to imply he's kind or considerate or even remotely a feminist; just that he's a "liberal" according to contemporary political discours. As I said, they're bound to screw the (posted to What We Missed)
And I think he (Seth Macfarlane) might be one of those guys, if we assume his personal ideologies are laced into every episode. Did you see the "feminist" episode? It was the stupidest, laziest, most unoriginal depiction of feminism and (posted to What We Missed)
"The only American Apparel clothing I have consists to t-shirts for bands that happen to be printed on their shirts - and if given the option I will ALWAYS go for someone else..." When I was trying to re-find the (posted to What We Missed)
Here are updates to the article on Assiya Rafiq's case: http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/helping-assiya-and-mukhtar/ http://kristof.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/an-update-on-assiya/ (posted to What We Missed)
