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May 18, 2012

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May 16, 2012

Afghanistan: Girl Power - People & Power - Al Jazeera English

A film by Trevor Bormann, Wayne McAllister and ABC

More than a decade after the Taliban were driven from power in Afghanistan, the plight of the country’s women remains dire, with threats and attacks by insurgents on women leaders, schoolgirls, and girls’ schools, and harassment of women for “moral crimes” such as running away from forced marriages or domestic violence.

Despite the best efforts of the international community and some of the more ‘enlightened’ elements of the current Afghan government, the kind of aggressive ultra-misogyny that marked the Taliban years (when religious police forced all women off the streets of Kabul, and ordered people to blacken their windows so that women would not be visible from the outside) is still evident in parts of the country.

May 16, 2012

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May 15, 2012

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Becky Flanders - http://beckyflanders.com

“Freud thinks primitive man preened himself on his ability to put out a fire with a stream of urine. A strange thing to be proud of but certainly beyond the scope of woman, who would scorch her hams in the process. Male urination really is a kind of accomplishment, an arc of transcendence. A woman merely waters the ground she stands on… Women, like female dogs, are earthbound squatters. There is no projection beyond the boundaries of self.” - Camille Paglia

References to women’s capacity to direct a stream of urine while standing, in much the same manner as a man, can be found as far back as the histories of Herodotus. It is thought to be something that any woman can do, without prosthesis, and with little training. And yet this image of woman “project[ing] beyond the boundaries of self” in this way remains absent from collective consciousness. It seems that the concept of femininity dictates the possibility of female bodies, rather than the other way around. The subject of this body of work is the cultural feminine, riddled as it is with well-guarded contradictions and willful or feigned ignorance masquerading as innocence. The work is an attempt to understand female archetypes and femininity itself, in part though mockery, in part as a genuine effort to imitate, to pass if you will, as feminine, despite the biological femaleness that I possess.

May 15, 2012

Even if we put aside the question of fetal personhood and assume that a fetus should have the same rights as a born human being, giving that fetus the right to use another person’s body for its surivval would give it privileges that born people do not have. In no other case is a person legally compelled to use their body and their internal organs to sustain another’s life. We do not require parents to donate kidneys or even blood to their children, and we do not require anyone to be a good Samaritan and risk their life or health for another. It is difficult to imagine a case in which we would legally require a father to keep his child physically attached to his body, using his organs for survival, physically impairing him, and requiring him to miss work and possibly undergo surgery, for nearly ten months.
It would be difficult to make the case that the child (or full-grown adult) has a right to use their father’s body for survival. Yet this is exactly what opponents of abortion rights argue— except the body in question is female,

Offensive Feminism, Jill Filipovic (via hymnsuponyourlips-)

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May 15, 2012