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Showing Original Post only (View all)American Taliban: Women have no right to their own bodies, but they're responsible for HIS [View all]
Last edited Wed Dec 26, 2012, 12:39 PM - Edit history (1)
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Thats right. An all-male supreme court in Iowa just agreed that if a man gets a bulge in his pants in a workplace, whatever attractive women is in any near vicinity can be fired so as not to continue to cause said bulge and so this situation does not threaten his marriage. Thus, the female employee was made fully responsible for the males behavior (or potential behavior), and even for his marriage but she damned well has no jurisdiction over her own body in this country. There is only one person in this particular situation who could do anything to threaten his marriage, and that was the man himself, not his employee. Yet she was the one who lost her job all because this man could not deal with or control himself. Its pretty sad for both of them, actually. And its pretty damn sexist. Whats next? Burkas?
Its the same with the violent crime of rape. When a man rapes a woman, who is typically blamed? The woman of course. The rapist is usually not deemed responsible for the mans violent behavior. All the responsibility for that is placed onto the woman who was raped. But when it comes to her having any jurisdiction whatsoever over her own body after the crime should she desire an abortion? Forget it. Shes only responsible for what he did to her with his.
Men in the upper chambers of our government appointed themselves qualified to decide for women whether they can have birth control pills or not and when and how and under what circumstances. No women were allowed on their panel. A young woman (Sandra Fluke) who had relevant testimony on the matter was shut out of the discussion and told she was not qualified to speak and repeatedly called a slut by a Taliban mouthpiece, Rush Limbaugh. But its HER body and the bodies of all women they were debating about. Never mind that. She was allowed nothing to say about it. But watch out if shes in the room and one of them gets a bulge in his pants. If that happens, and particularly if the man had acted on it, she would be held responsible! Guaranteed.
This is The American Taliban at work in the United States.
The same American Taliban that claimed that if a rape is legitimate, a woman cant get pregnant because her body will shut that whole thing down. And the same American Taliban that insisted that pregnancy from rape was Gods work. The same American Taliban that insisted that pregnancy from rape was just another method of conception.
Its hideously obvious The American Taliban doesnt even consider women human and therefore worthy of even the most basic levels of compassion or consideration at all.
And what intimate medical knowledge these men (who cannot even control their own bodies or their own sexual behavior) claim they somehow have of womens bodies! These men cannot even control their own bodies or their own behavior yet they want to control women. Now were getting to the crux of this issue. . .
To compensate for their lack of control over themselves and their own sexual behavior, men decided they must control women instead making women responsible for mens sexual (and violent) behavior. At the same time, women are denied the same jurisdiction over their own bodies and the making of their own reproductive decisions.
Its the same with the violent crime of rape. When a man rapes a woman, who is typically blamed? The woman of course. The rapist is usually not deemed responsible for the mans violent behavior. All the responsibility for that is placed onto the woman who was raped. But when it comes to her having any jurisdiction whatsoever over her own body after the crime should she desire an abortion? Forget it. Shes only responsible for what he did to her with his.
Men in the upper chambers of our government appointed themselves qualified to decide for women whether they can have birth control pills or not and when and how and under what circumstances. No women were allowed on their panel. A young woman (Sandra Fluke) who had relevant testimony on the matter was shut out of the discussion and told she was not qualified to speak and repeatedly called a slut by a Taliban mouthpiece, Rush Limbaugh. But its HER body and the bodies of all women they were debating about. Never mind that. She was allowed nothing to say about it. But watch out if shes in the room and one of them gets a bulge in his pants. If that happens, and particularly if the man had acted on it, she would be held responsible! Guaranteed.
This is The American Taliban at work in the United States.
The same American Taliban that claimed that if a rape is legitimate, a woman cant get pregnant because her body will shut that whole thing down. And the same American Taliban that insisted that pregnancy from rape was Gods work. The same American Taliban that insisted that pregnancy from rape was just another method of conception.
Its hideously obvious The American Taliban doesnt even consider women human and therefore worthy of even the most basic levels of compassion or consideration at all.
And what intimate medical knowledge these men (who cannot even control their own bodies or their own sexual behavior) claim they somehow have of womens bodies! These men cannot even control their own bodies or their own behavior yet they want to control women. Now were getting to the crux of this issue. . .
To compensate for their lack of control over themselves and their own sexual behavior, men decided they must control women instead making women responsible for mens sexual (and violent) behavior. At the same time, women are denied the same jurisdiction over their own bodies and the making of their own reproductive decisions.
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American Taliban: Women have no right to their own bodies, but they're responsible for HIS [View all]
ProfessionalLeftist
Dec 2012
OP
Hey, Gloria Allred is ALRIGHT! If we hadn't had irritants like her, we'd be so much farther
calimary
Dec 2012
#69
Seems he had issues with her presence regardless the wife. And the pastor (male) helped
ProfessionalLeftist
Dec 2012
#11
so, dont blame the attractive woman, blame the other woman. whatever we do, do NOT blame the man.
seabeyond
Dec 2012
#15
Once again, Women are relegated to second-class citizens. This shit is going to keep up ..
BlueJazz
Dec 2012
#19
The Taliban outlaw woman to work, have any legal voice, show any skin, use phones, drive...
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#20
Are you actually defending this? To answer your question: he should have done nothing.
ieoeja
Dec 2012
#32
We also get erections when our jeans rub us the right(or wrong) way...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#42
The point is that your penis doesn't need a source of attraction, or if it does have one...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#54
Put it in context. This was not just someone he saw walking down the street.
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#60
Yeah, I don't get that turn of phrase either, and usually, unless you are itching to get fired...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#55
His choices were (1) do not fuck her or (2) fuck her over. He chose option #2. n/t
ieoeja
Dec 2012
#65
Ok. Lets juxtapose context. (Just discussing context not comparing situations)
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#75
Counseling would be good. Finding another job for someone is problematic...
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#63
I didn't get snotty. I realized that even though you were quoting statistics, you were misusing them
mbperrin
Dec 2012
#96
I have this very discussion with my sophomore high school students every year.
mbperrin
Dec 2012
#70
It really depends on the situation. The body responds in certain ways depending on certain stimuli
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#82
I'm not quite sure exactly what you mean is a learned behavior. You could be referring to a couple
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#90
In retrospect that wasn't the best argument as pertaining to this case...
Flabbergasted
Dec 2012
#84
This is the issue with patriarchal religion. It's no better than the Taliban.
ProfessionalLeftist
Dec 2012
#37
If he started to have a crush on her, that's his problem, not hers, she shouldn't have been...
Humanist_Activist
Dec 2012
#44
Our religious fundamentalists really aren't any better than the ones we're fighting.
Initech
Dec 2012
#58