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12 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - Seder Time: An Orange,... · 0 replies · +2 points

I'm not Jewish, but attended a Seder on the first night of Passover. I noticed an orange on the Seder plate and asked why it was there. Apparently, someone espousing feminist rhetoric was told, "That makes about as much sense as an orange on a Seder plate."

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - She Drinks, She Flirts... · 0 replies · +3 points

You didn't understand what I meant, probably because I screwed up and said "defense" when I meant plaintiff. The tools used don't detect vomit, so saying the tools didn't pick it up means nothing. Here's a quote from the San Jose Mercury News:

"Spector told the jury of six men and six women that defense attorneys Jeff Nevin and Bruce Funk tried to trick them Wednesday in closing arguments by challenging irrelevant evidence, leaving out key evidence and setting up and refuting "straw man" arguments that misrepresent the young woman's position.

"Take the debate over whether the teen vomited, for instance, Spector said. The defense has made much of the fact that the Sexual Assault Response Team nurse at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center didn't find any vomit on her. Spector pointed out that vomit doesn't show up under the special light the nurse used and that the teen's mother and the soccer girls testified they wiped off the vomit."
http://www.mercurynews.com/crime-courts/ci_177542...

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - She Drinks, She Flirts... · 0 replies · +3 points

The defense argued that this was a straw man (straw woman?) because the tools used do not detect vomit. The soccer girls also said they wiped the vomit off her face. I know I wouldn't leave it there if I were helping her and driving her to the hospital.

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - Click! My Church Is Ag... · 0 replies · +1 points

Thanks for your comment. I will take a read of your book and get in touch! Sounds interesting.

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - One Feminist Asks, 'Is... · 0 replies · +1 points

I grew up Mormon and was taught that polygamy had been removed from earth for now, but was the way of Heaven. Which sounded more like Hell to me.

Women seem to make all the sacrifices so men can have unlimited pleasure. “Soul mate” seems impossible.

In polygyny men have more power, and in polyandry women do. I see that as a problem.

But prohibiting polygamy isolates and stigmatizes, leaving practitioners without alternate voices to consider options. I’ve written a bit about this in my blog. http://broadblogs.com/2010/12/09/are-polygamist-w...

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - An Open Letter to Wire... · 0 replies · +3 points

Many comments have reiterated “sex sells.” Like that makes it okay. Is money the only, or most important, value? http://broadblogs.com/

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - Why Decriminalizing Se... · 0 replies · +7 points

Really, it’s best to combine decriminalization of sex work with criminalizing the purchase of sex. Otherwise, a cheaper underground alternative, based on trafficking, tends to crop up. Sweden has combined these two measures and been very successful at reducing trafficking, unlike Amsterdam, where trafficking is strong with decriminalization. http://broadblogs.com/

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - No Comment: Opposing D... · 0 replies · +2 points

Ironic to use homophobia to counter domestic violence since both are grounded in sexism. In cultures where women are devalued there is more violence against them, as well as more gay bashing (because gay men are seen to be woman-like). Value women and lose both problems! http://broadblogs.com/

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - 10 Ways to Girls' Heal... · 0 replies · +3 points

Surprisingly, sexualization/objectification can also harm women’s bedroom enjoyment.

If a woman feels she looks good, she may just focus on how good she looks, and be distracted from the sexual experience.

If she doesn’t think she looks good – doesn’t fit the cultural ideal – this is also distracting. She can be thinking about that, and feel discomfort instead of sexual enjoyment.

Men, OD’d on porn, may also be disappointed by how real women look. If he’s less turned on, her sexual enjoyment is likely to be affected.

Or, maybe he only cares about her as an object, and doesn’t take the time to suit her sexual needs and provide the emotional connection that so many women want. http://broadblogs.com/

13 years ago @ Ms Magazine Blog - ‘Whose Streets?’ A... · 0 replies · +5 points

The notion that street harassment is no big deal comes from a place of seeing the world, and understanding it, through the eyes of men:

Men aren’t harassed, they don’t have to deal with it, so what’s the big deal?

Women are secondary, and so are their concerns.

The public space is male. Women: good luck making your way through it.

But now I’m glad to see that some men are beginning to see harassment through the eyes of women. http://broadblogs.com/

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