If I were a woman today, I would be scared...

[Taverner]

Not just because of the Duke Lacrosse team rape, but because of the one asshat's comments about "skinning strippers" 30 minutes after the rape.

Because of SD banning abortion

Because of Matthews and DeLay joking about uppity women...

GAH - these days I feel ashamed to have a penis...

[redwitch]

1. scared? nah!

Pissed off? yup?

[YellowRubberDuckie]

2. I'm not scared to be a woman...

but I am sad for those people being so small minded and for people making excuses and trying to make it ok that they did what they did. South Dakota is just the beginning. More is coming. It's going to get waaaay worse before it gets better, I'm sad to say.
Duckie

[HockeyMom]

3. They HATE women

That is a fact. It is the mother/whore syndrome.

Welcome to the 14th Century, people. Does America really want this? I really doubt it.

[VOX]

4. We have entered a very dark age. Women are targets, science is reviled...

Illiteracy is something to be proud of, being "patriotic" means cheering for endless war (but not enlisting to fight it), diplomacy is for "wimps," etc., etc.

We are now living in very strange and dark times. If we make it, these years will not be looked back upon as an enlightened era, not by a long shot.

[PublicWrath]

14. My favorite term for this era is the Counter Enlightenment n/t

[Warpy]

15. It's fundy religion on the march

because if there's one thing a fundy loves to hate, it's women. You see, if it weren't for women, he'd be next to the angels in utter purity, a saint on earth. It's all their fault he isn't.

By the way, I like your

[PublicWrath]

17. On the march and heading to "The Handmaid's Tale".

Did you happen to hear that a San Antonio school superintendent tried to ban "The Handmaid's Tale" from an advanced placement English course? The objection was supposed to be about the book's sexual scenes, and because they felt it was unflattering to particular Christian religious beliefs.

I wonder if that's the real reason, or if the book is an all-too-likely projection of what would happen under a fundamentalist takeover,---and the book might make the students actually analyze their parent's religious/political values. What are your thoughts?

[boobooday]

5. No. Never be ashamed of Mr. Winkie. It isn't his fault.

He's just fine. Now is the time we need the support of the men who have a clue about all this. The human ones. It will take more than women -- it will take a lot of men talking to men to end sexism and violence against women.

:patriot: :hi:

[bliss_eternal]

13. Absolutely--

I agree. Thanks for the post Taverner! :hi:

[OzarkDem]

6. They'd better be careful

more women are carrying guns today than ever before, and for good reason.

[bluemarkers]

7. not that bad

there was a time when women were property. Men were hanged for stealing bread. Children's legs were broken because lame beggars got more money. In times past things were much worse, because they were the norm. (Which is one reason why the Iraq war is a huge step backwards, but that is another post)

I think as we travel down a better road, the slime of days gone by still sticks. It just looks and stinks with a clarity that only the passing of time, and the changing of attitudes brings. We still have a long way to go, but things are getting better. People rarely change, but their children may hold different ideas.

[cali]

9. Spot on.

All this hyperventilating about how we're living in a repressive culture where women and liberals are endangered just makes me giggle.

[guinivere]

16. Agreed.

Kind of misdirected angst.


There is very little that scares me.

[salin]

8. it makes me profoundly sad

that the incident of rape (1 in 3 women between the ages of 15 and 35 has been a rape or sexual assualt victim) has not decreased since I was a victim little more than twenty years ago. And that despite the high incident of rape we still focus on the victim (what degree of fault lays with her), give as much concern to "false accusals" (something that is detestable as it makes real crimes harder to pursue legally) - as if the incident is at a similar rate, and still don't spend a whole lot of time talking to our next generations of young men/boys - certainly less than we spend talking about the issues with the young women/girls about what rape is and how to prevent it. There has been progress in the last twenty plus years - but there has been enough back sliding that the net leaves us still with the static statistics and more generations of women who have been victimized by rape and/or sexual assualt.

[KAZ]

10. I'll tell you what, I'd be scared if I was the person...

... making the comments which you listed. The backlash cometh, and it won't be pretty.

[DarkTirade]

11. If it wasn't so darned expensive,

I'd walk around downtown with canisters of mace, giving it out to those women who are getting catcalls and obviously not wanting them. Which is, of course, most of them. >: )

[Rose Siding]

12. As ugly as the e-mail was, the defense atty's response was the kicker

The e-mail said this guy "wanted to invite more strippers to his dorm room, kill them and skin them"

Council said that somehow upheld his clients' claim not to have raped anyone. Get it? This guy's a lawyer and he doesn't equate rape with an act of violence? It's disturbing that he's floating that on a media forum.

Thank you for your empathy. We're tougher than we look with our silky skin and all ;)