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“When men such as Kelly commit, or are charged with sexual assaults, they leave a long trail of victims, cast shame and disgrace on themselves and, worst of all, reinforce the notion that young black males are indeed menaces to society.”
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“Charged with “unlawful free speech,” the defendants were part of a larger group that appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court on January 11 — the day marking six years of indefinite detention and torture at Guantanamo.”
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“Many low-income First Nations mothers feel uncomfortable using aid services outside their community, so when Aboriginal-run programs are cut it puts those women at greater risk of losing their children.” (See additional info at the end of post. – LDP)
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“The American State Department has withdrawn all Fulbright grants to Palestinian students in Gaza hoping to pursue advanced degrees at American institutions this fall because Israel has not granted them permission to leave.”
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“all those Muslim women (and men) who casually sit there and say: we need to let Muslim women liberate themselves have to be a) out of their mind and b) completely naive about how things like entrenched patriarchy work.”
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“A man who obviously doesn’t clean out his stuff that often found a 58-year old homeless woman residing in his closet. She had been there for an entire year, and he didn’t know until he noticed that food was missing from his fridge.”
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“He points out that the definition of “terrorism” varies by region such that what’s being measured is inconsistent and meant to return desired results rather than a real portrait of what’s happening. “
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“The command was envisioned as an example to Africans of how their own armed forces and civilians could work together for the good of their nations. The trouble was, no one consulted the Africans.”
Carmen Van Kerckhove is co-founder and president of
MizDarwin wrote:
When men such as Kelly commit, or are charged with sexual assaults, they leave a long trail of victims, cast shame and disgrace on themselves and, worst of all, reinforce the notion that young black males are indeed menaces to society.”
Really? That’s the “worst” result of black men raping? That’s about the most egregious case of “what about teh menz” I’ve ever seen.
Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 7:47 am ¶
Keren wrote:
MizDarwin, that leapt out at me too. Also, he kept referring to ’sex with underage girls,’ and ’sex with minors.’ Er, that’s called RAPE.
Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 9:19 am ¶
Tiffany wrote:
Thanks for the article on r.kelly, I’m just waiting for them to put this man in jail…
Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 1:38 pm ¶
Amanda Marcotte wrote:
A good editor should have caught that. He was probably just trying to write a sentence that had high impact, and didn’t think through the ramifications of the phrase.
Posted 01 Jun 2008 at 5:48 pm ¶
RandallJones wrote:
Regarding the link to “Muslim Women Won’t Have It Easy” by Ali Eteraz:
Muslim and other women living in the Third World have it twice as hard as women living in the West. Western women only have to fight their own governments for their rights. Women in the Third world have to fight their own governments and certain Western governments.
Third world women have to fight Western governments who go around preaching human rights and democracy, but at the same time engage in regime change and support brutal dictators and kings who do their bidding. These dictators and kings allow Western countries exploit their natural resources, to the detriment of their own people.
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 12:17 am ¶
Celeste wrote:
@RandallJones: Western governments often (esp the US) meddle in other countries affairs wtih our own self-interest as the driving force. Whenever some U.S. politician talks about “spreading democracy” I always think of all the democracies we’ve destroyed or undermined over the years and it just rings false. We only support people’s right to govern themselves if we agree with what the people actually want.
Posted 04 Jun 2008 at 7:17 am ¶