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She Drinks, She Flirts, She Passes Out … Is It Rape?
Around midnight at a college party, several young women soccer players are alerted that a 17-year-old girl is barricaded in a room with eight guys on the baseball team. Through a window, the women...
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Did Women Create Burqa Culture?
In honor of implementation of the French “burqa ban,” and the brouhaha it is causing from Bill Maher to the New York Times, I repost the following: The French “burqa ban” has got me thinking. Did women...
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Higher Suicide Rates in Conservative “Values Voters” States
Values voters. That’s what those who vote their principles on gay rights and abortion are called. So long as they vote anti-gay and anti-choice. Really? Are those the only values? And are they good...
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Female Activist Says Legalize Sex-Slavery
A female political activist and former parliamentary candidate prescribes sex-slavery as a means of protecting Kuwaiti men from committing adultery, according to the Kuwait Times and the Arabic news...
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Turning Indian Girls Into Boys
Indian parents are paying to have their daughters turned into sons through sex-change operations that cost about 145,000 rupees ($3,200). Up to 300 girls have been surgically turned into boys in one...
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Ways of Seeing: Ravaged or Ravishing?
By Robert Rees We are bombarded with thousands if not tens of thousands of images every day. Occasionally, two images come into such sharp contrast that they can’t be ignored. Such was the case when I...
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Markets Must Be Free; Women Must Be Constrained
Right wingers adamantly proclaim that free markets are necessary for freedom. So why do so many of these liberty lovers insist that women be constrained? The right has been relentlessly pushing laws...
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Rape Culture and Penn State
A man sexually assaults children. Witnesses are appalled. But no one tells anyone outside their tight circle. The assailant is eventually accused of attacking eight boys. Yet members of the community...
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How Does Racism Hurt Racists? The Case of Emmett Till
How does racism hurt racists? In many ways, actually. Here’s one: The case of Emmett Till. In 1955 this 14-year-old African-American left Chicago to visit his cousin in Mississippi. One day his cousin...
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Strip Searches Strip Our Liberty
Recently, the Supreme Court ruled that anyone can be strip-searched when arrested, for any offense, at any time. The majority was composed of the more libertarian side of the court who claim to value...
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Strip Searches Strip Our Liberty
Liberty Lost As the law stands, anyone can be strip-searched when arrested, for any offense, at any time. Oddly, it was the more libertarian justices of the Supreme Court who declared it so — the ones...
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Should Businesses Have More Rights than Gays, Women and Blacks?
Business rights v human rights. Should businesses have more rights than people? In particular, people who are gay, female or black? Because the US has a history of privileging businesses over...
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