March 21st, 2009
Letter to a good Christian woman:
I think we can all agree that consistantly objectifying women is not just wrong, it is dysfunctional. By “objectifying” I mean that the viewer isn’t concerned with the woman’s needs and desires but only with his own. This lack of empathy, when taken to extremes, is the hallmark of a sociopath or a narcissistic personality.
In Muslim cultures this objectification is so ubiquitous that the women must wear burqas to protect themselves from being attacked. Displaying the female form, the clerics claim, incites sexual excitement in men and invites rape.
We heard this same argument when miniskirts were popular in the US.
The United States actually has a great deal more censorship than most European countries. It started with the Comstock Laws, laws that were intended to oppress women by denying them healthcare information. In Europe, casual nudity is unremarkable and nobody is inappropriately aroused by it, while in the U.S. a little too much neck or leg on TV provokes a great outcry.
If I’m understanding you correctly, you are telling us that Americans are incapable of appreciating the human form, male or female, without being sexually overwhelmed. Does your minister also promote rape? I hope not.
Prehistoric fertility totems, ancient Greek statues, and Renoir’s nudes: if you have your way they will be censored along with the sleazy garbage that you and I don’t care to look at.
Tags: Burqua, censorship, Comstock laws, Oppression, Reproductive rights, Women's studies
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November 20th, 2008
Protests Over a Rule to Protect Health Providers – NYTimes.com
George W. Bush is trying to push a bill through Congress that enables doctors to force their religious beliefs on women. The NYT, phrases it as if they are somehow protecting the doctors’ rights. I don’t think so. If a doctor is a Fundamentalist Extremist, he has a duty to post a sign in his office saying “If it isn’t in the bible, I don’t do it.”
Anyway, what the bill really does is:
1) Equates birth control with abortion.
2) Criminalizes birth control.
3) Enables Fundamentalist doctors to withhold health care information from female patients.
4) Makes it illegal for any government-funded health clinic to provide birth control information.
5) Sets human rights in the United States back 100 years.
This is insane.
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Patty Murray had this to say:
“In the final days of his administration, the president is again putting ideology first and attempting to roll back health care protections for women and families. This HHS rule will threaten patients’ rights, stand in the way of health care professionals, and restrict access to critical health care services for those who need them most. Senator Murray and I are standing up once again to the administration against this rule and will continue to fight for women’s reproductive rights.”
Tags: abortion, Fundamentalist, George W. Bush, health care, health care services, Hillary Clinton, human rights, Reproductive rights, Women's studies
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