This is going to be a quick post, and it's prompted by various Muslims--and naturally, they've pretty much all been men trying to "put things in perspective"--detracting from the tragedy of the Nigerian girls who've been kidnapped, raped, and sold into slavery by competing with the attention the kidnapping is receiving, via lists of various …
Category: rape culture
a lesson in logical fallacies, to my critical thinking instructors
no true scotsman 1.1 this cannot be a true Muslim true Muslims are terrorists at a fundamental(ist) level friendly feminist fire: you cannot be a true religious woman; religion is anti-feminist and what you practice is not bandwagon 2.1 a man of color accuses a woman of racism for rejecting his advances because white men …
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Why Anti-Choice is Pro-Genocide, and Uncomfortable Things about Birth Control
Incorporated into the recent war on women is the acknowledgement that women of color, expressly black women, have been sterilized against their will and made to struggle for their reproductive right to produce a family. There have also been—and are—imperialistic efforts to constrain and control the populations of developing countries through untested and dangerous drugs. …
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Malala Yousafzai
I'm not back yet. I just want to say that I half-heartedly intended to write some sort of post and I never did. Because I have just become angrier and angrier. And quite frankly, I don't want to write a post about Malala. I don't want to write about a 14-year-old girl shot by the …
IKEA’s Literal Erasure of Women
The catalogue photo to the left was released in Sweden; the one to the right was released in Saudi. To the right, the woman has conspicuously vanished from the photo. While I don’t deny that this is indicative of Saudi’s approach to sexual equality--and a degree of very poignant and disturbed reactions followed after I …
Forced sterilization is wrong. At any and all times. (or, Why Men Don’t Talk About Abortion 101)
This post is brought to you by a couple of commenters on the last post (their comments have not been accepted) advocating forced sterilization for those neurologically atypical. Are you kidding me? You do not have the right to anyone’s body. Ever. Ever. That right is their own and it is inalienable. It is inseparable. …
Abortion is a right. At any and all times. (or, American Principles 101)
This post is brought to you by some schmuck who took it upon himself during an abortion debate, in which he was distressed that I would legalize late-term abortions, to inform me that there is no such thing as inalienable rights, and that rights are “whatever humans decide they are” and therefore I cannot assert …
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the fatal feminist 