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eeeeediotssss.

I would point out, to NOW, et al., that roughly half of the babies aborted are girls. So who, in fact, is rampantly denying rights to women?

urbancenturion on December 3, 2007 at 4:34 PM

Feminists are only interested in women 18 years of age or older who can be brainwashed into buying NOW’s shtick.

Teenage girls? Who cares, give them a pill and if they get knocked up, rend their baby from their womb and give them an “I had an abortion” T-shirt to solace them.

Pre-teens? Who needs morals. Just give the kids some fruit and rubbers and they’ll figure it out and move into teenage status.
The unborn? “We prefer the term ‘products of conception’”
Men? What?

- The Cat

Apartheid.

If you opposed apartheid, how in the WORLD can you not oppose the violent subjugation of women in the Middle East?

Of course, if you ask that question of NOW, I hope you like the sound of crickets.

N.O.W. was conspicuously silent on Bill Clinton’s sexual harassment and/or affairs with Paula Jones, Gennifer Flowers, Monica Lewinsky, Elizabeth Gracen, Sally Perdue and Dolly Browning……..

pedestrian on December 3, 2007 at 2:05 PM

Yes. Interesting. I concur with Volokh.

Feminism has come a long way in the USA.
ThackerAgency on December 3, 2007 at 12:29 PM

Feminism pretty much destroyed the U.S.A.

Women in this country are allowed to do anything they want

Who’s doing the ‘allowing’? I think it is better to say that women are at liberty to do what they want.

Ochlan on December 3, 2007 at 1:52 PM

If men continue to be feminized and Islam allowed to take over, then woman will no longer be allowed to do much of anything. Someone has to lift the shells. Interesting post on that subject here: http://volokh.com/archives/archive_2007_12_02-2007_12_08.shtml#1196697012

Women in this country are allowed to do anything they want

Who’s doing the ‘allowing’? I think it is better to say that women are at liberty to do what they want.

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;-)

5 March 2007

RIYADH – A Saudi woman who was kidnapped at knifepoint, gang-raped and then beaten by her brother has been sentenced to 90 lashes — for a meeting a man who was not a relative, a newspaper reported on Monday.

It’s horrific enough that lashing is being used to punish for that. By saying that the punishment is for something even more ridiculous lets the Saudis of the hook for what they are really doing. Certainly their are other cases where a rape victim has been punished, but there seems to be enough shame in this instance that they are not saying that. Let’s take that small victory and move on to the real issue in this case, which is to treat the woman as not even having the right to visit whom she wants.

By the way, the “Take Action” page of feminist.org today lists 6 items. Items 2,4, and 6 are all the same: subsidized abortions.Items 1 and 3 are completely different, they are for subsidized abortions in other countries. Item 5 is some obscure labor dispute on some island somewhere, probably a dispute over how much abortion nurses should be paid.

Feminism may not end at the water’s edge but it sure seems tired once it finally crosses the ocean.

Great line.

Although I think in truth … it’d be more accurate to say it drowns noisily halfway to Greenland.

Or NOW’s outrage at the return of Imus, and their silence on the woman killed in Iran, by the ‘dating police’…chirp, chirp, chirp.

Also, while the Mohammed teddybear-naming is not a woman thing, when was the last time they decried the way the women are treated by Sharia, and the fact that the entire religion is hijacked?

Entelechy on December 3, 2007 at 12:40 PM

NOW is too busy holding orgasm workshops over how awesome they are (aside: they need workshops to do what the rest of us can do with minor communicative effort) to worry about Sharia creep. You see, Bush (the President) is the real enemy to women’s rights.