links for 2009-05-30
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"It’s silly. It’s so obvious that everyone should have healthcare that I’m surprised we haven’t yet done it. There is no good reason to resist mandates, particularly since we’re content to let the government interfere in other, less urgent, areas of our lives."
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"The fact that a woman is not safe in the outside world like a man is, is not an inevitable 'fact of life,' one of those things you just live with. Once upon a time, the rape of an unprotected woman was every male’s birthright, if he dared risk her owner’s revenge. We have managed to school much (but not all) of this out of men and we can continue until it’s all gone.
But until it’s gone, women are not truly free. And conservatives especially have little right to feel smug about women’s progress in the US since they are doing their utmost to undo what gains we’ve made. And they certainly can’t pretend that western feminism’s work is done."
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"This is the important point for allies. As a woman I’m not interested in spending all my free time educating men on what it’s like to be a woman, and why exactly I, too, count as a human being. Some men whom I care about will have their questions answered, but only because it means something to me personally that they get it. Some people appear to think that self-educating means asking questions of the person standing immediately in front of you ie. the OP. They’re wrong. It’s not that hard to look things up on the internet, and whoah, look, you’re already on it."
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"Advocates for sex worker rights and recognition tend to be vehemently opposed to both sex trafficking and non-sex trafficking. Sex-work opponents tend to be oddly silent about the latter."
May 30 2009 08:30 am | Category: del.icio.us links
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