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A small and a big thing about British actress Joanna Lumley. The small thing is how remarkably often she is referred to in the newspapers as the “lovely Joanna Lumley”. Not that she isn’t lovely, but many other lovely actresses are not referred to in this fashion with such frequency, suggesting that the human ear [...]
Archive for the ‘Feminism’ Category
July 13th, 2011
Dilma Rousseff carries forward the other revolution.
June 4th, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Feminism
A quarter century or so ago, when I was volunteering as a counselor to sexual assault victims in East Lansing, Michigan, the police force in the neighboring city of Lansing was so dismissive of rape accusations that an activist friend said in the newspaper: “My advice to women is that if you get raped in [...]
April 21st, 2011
when a gang-rape is ordered by local government to punish the brother of the victim for something he didn’t do and that wasn’t criminal or even wrong and that gets whitewashed by the highest national court (with the local council apparently not even indicted), it’s important to say “Everyone’s culture is just as good as [...]
January 23rd, 2011
Category: Crime Control, Feminism
The comment thread on this post is open to anyone who opposes abortion as murder on grounds that a fetus (at the stage it is performed) is a person. Please either (i) confirm that the correct response of society is to indict and prosecute the mother who arranges it for capital murder (premeditated) (if you [...]
October 20th, 2010
Ken Buck can choose: either he admits to violating prosecutor’s ethics rules, or he admits that he thinks date rape isn’t serious.
July 2nd, 2010
If the New York Times editoral board really wants to get rid of female genital cutting, then it needs to understand the actual work going on in the Global South.
March 27th, 2010
The slow drip of acid on the Catholic church, and especially on the pope, from the daily revelations of non-feasance, malfeasance, and active coverup is going to go on corroding the machinery, and burning the gilt off the façade, for a long time. We haven’t even started to hear the horror stories screaming to be [...]
February 19th, 2010
A personal report on the 2010 Rio Carnival.