In 2003, Orzala Ashraf Nemat had a dream. It wasn’t a big dream or one that would shake the foundations of the earth. But it was one that was important to women. Orzala dreamed of creating a network of women’s shelters in Afghanistan so that abused women would have a place to stay that could …
Category Archive: Rights
Apr 20 2013
Of Priests and Prostitutes
There is a problem in many parts of the world with human trafficking and a lot of the charities that deal with “human traffic” are Religious and often don’t “get” trafficking. They often see themselves as “saviours” and don’t understand the underlying causes for sex work. Mainly because Human Traffic is near universally understood as …
Mar 31 2013
What We Go Through || Racism and Privilege doesn’t work the way Rebecca Bradley thinks
I was poking around the net when I came across Skeptic Ink’s Rebecca Bradley and her take on “privilege” when it comes down to race and indeed sexism. And I don’t think she gets it.
Jul 21 2012
The Hags of Lag
Videogames tend to have fewer female participants in the competitive and indeed the online scene. There are a tonne of reasons which we can get into later but the primary reason is one that everyone can guess. Well if you are part of Men Going their Own Way it’s because men’s brains are superior What …
Feb 12 2012
Back to the Grind
So I am done with exams (finally!) and can get back to regular posts and the like. And this seems like a good time to discuss the whole abortion issue that has raised it’s ugly head. See the problem with abortion is that it’s not a good thing. None of us like abortions, even the …
Aug 07 2011
If You Don’t Stand for Something, you will Fall for Anything.
I disagree with Hirsi Ali on this one. Islam is so many different levels of screwed up at this point. It’s a religion where debate is not encouraged. It’s followers are exhorted to be as blinded and as fanatical as possible. It is anti intellectual and anti social. The nice friendly muslims are now a …
Jul 31 2011
Rights of the Silent majority – Love is a Battlefield
Earlier, I wrote about women’s shelters in Afghanistan and how the funding for them was not regarded as important even for our own governments which state that they don’t have time to enshrine the rights of 50% of a population who existed as little more than slaves.. I wrote about the horrific abuses that women had to …
Jul 10 2011
It Gets Better/Rights of the Silent Majority: Marriage Vows and You
The FAMiLY LEADER recently released it’s presidential candidate pledge to defend marriage. It’s purpose is to record the personal convictions of each presidential candidate regarding marriage. Only those who agree to “defend marriage” may be endorsed by this group. The wording is to protect the judeo-christian idea of marriage and fuck over everyone else, the agreement is …
Jun 07 2011
Aminah Abdallah and Freedom
http://damascusgaygirl.blogspot.com/ Aminah Abdallah is a lesbian syrian blogger who wrote an extremely brave account of her and her father standing up to people who threatened to rape her (to correct her behaviour of all things). She has been kidnapped, possibly by supporters of the regime and is part of the violence that has become so …
May 21 2011
It Gets Better – Or maybe not?
Gary Cass certainly thinks it gets worse.I don’t see It Gets Better as a pro-gay campaign, I see it as an anti-bullying campaign. All manner of people go through school being bullied be it for what they look like, or what they are or what they have said or what people think of them. I …
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