A while ago in a forum a Muslim man attempted to construct an argument by announcing he “wouldn’t be surprised” if I were raped or abused and were blaming Islam (?) for this instead of those who had inflicted the injustices upon me (and thus obviously any interpretation I make is a result of hysteria). …
Concern with false rape allegations is bullshit.
A couple of years ago: police believe this man raped as many as 50 women, but each jury believed the sex was consensual and so he was never convicted: As Leigh drove home that morning, she had no idea what lay in her future: that she would join 9 of those 21 accusers to face …
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What’s this about a new year?
For me the year ends in June, and winter is not the beginning but a divide between the semesters of which a year is composed. Summer is a strange period in which time is suspended, a vast meadow with knee-high yellow grass when I’m staring at the page of a book and a beach with …
Praying in Arabic
When the sun is overturned When the stars fall away When the mountains are moved When the ten-month pregnant camels are neglected When the beasts of the wild shall be mustered When the seas are boiling When the girl-child, buried alive, is asked for what crime she deserved murder, When the sky is flayed open …
Article: A letter to Islam
Being underprivileged, disadvantaged, unfairly discriminated against on a national level, on a daily basis, on the basis of religion, having the name of this religion torn away from compassion to be abused at the hands of both patriarchal Muslim men who use it as a political weapon and patriarchal non-Muslim men who disguise their racism …
In which Nahida falls into a door
Back at my mother’s house for the holidays, I took to dancing ballet in my bedroom. I did not reveal to my mother that this is why I slipped, dear readers, though I am disclosing it to you. This is not because I am embarrassed for dancing ballet—for I assure you that I am quite …
Nice Guy.
I get letters from self-professed Nice Guys, complaining that women must WANT to be treated like shit, because THEY, the "Nice Guy" have failed repeatedly in relationships. --Heartless Bitches International This has been written about in the feminist blogosphere time and time again and hardly requires a post from me. However, I’ve just experienced a …
the fatal feminist 