According to nearly all definitions, feminism is the belief in and advocacy of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes expressed especially through organized activity on behalf of women's rights and interests.
Referring to the meaning in waves is a ploy to undermine the...
I'm having trouble deciphering what yer trying to say here but what is clear is that you are often responding to stuff people aren’t actually saying. Then getting frustrated enough to place a completely level headed poster, making a completely level headed post, on ignore. You made similar...
The fact is protest works. Mobilizing in solidarity is effective and when students demonstrate they are simply behaving like students behave. They are told to be responsible adults and when they question authority suddenly all the free speech "absolutists" disagree with that concept showing...
I understand you are hung up on the word objective. When medicine mostly relies on a scientific consensus. At the time. Several doctors can be looking at the same x-ray and not see exactly the same thing. Humans are fallible. Doctors, surgeons and the folks interpreting your blood results...
Alright, so what do you mean by humanmade categories?
A broken bone has the chance to heal. Scars may toughen. An open wound is harder to handle. Mental illness can be like the open wound of a hemophiliac. It requires treatment. You can have cancer and be cancer free on the other side...
What is the radius for the community you imagine? Loyalty to whom? Family? Church? Country? Planet? What do you say to soldiers burdened terribly with suicidal ideation? Pull yerself up by yer bootstraps? They've done that to death already.
If we owe something to the global community...
One can be of sound mind and capable of making medical decisions even when those decisions mean contemplating ending one's own life. Given particular sets of circumstances it's a rational decision. No need to infantilize the woman. The "I didn't do it so she shouldn't either" business is...
This really boils down to accepting that you can't control what other people do. You can’t force people to look at life the way you do or look at death the way you want them to. That sort of meddling seems aggressively judgemental. Why burden them with another problem they don't need?
I see what you're saying. I've invited the odd JW in for a chat. Partly because I don't mind hearing anybody out but mostly because I think it's brave to knock on doors these days. For any reason. And I live in Canada in the middle of nowhere so arriving at my door takes a certain degree of...
After growing up Anglican I understand the pervasiveness of ingrained moral beliefs. Participating in religious rituals that guarantee a place in heaven and prayers delivered with such repetition I can recite them by heart to this day. Despite the fact my heart isn't in it.
I could go on...
Learning how to decipher when to proceed and when to cut bait is beneficial to any conversation. For everyone involved. That point is something each individual must figure out on their own. It's usually a matter of discussing a subject with people who are as curious about the topic as you...
This is it exactly. Freedom of speech is something to fight for, not hide behind. And talented comedians are creative enough to adapt to language as it changes. That was Carlin's forte.
I doubt it's old news for victims. Living with it day after day. The ones that survived anyway. A perpetually revolving door for pedophile priests is about as current as it gets. Like forever and ever. Eh men.
The members of society that children are taught to trust hold an immense responsibility and we base it on a costume. A white collar or police uniform symbolizes "good" so they are told it is safe to approach them when they find themselves in times of trouble. Unlike every other stranger they...
Sanctimony masquerading as human dignity. What lurks beneath white collars and pointy hats that people feel they must defend?
The Boston Globe's investigative journalism unit 'Spotlight' was poised to break the sex abuse story when 9/11 happened and they were forced to put it on hold. It...
The end game here is to ease human suffering so it's hard to know what to make of the opinion that physical ailments somehow outrank psychological ones.
What we have learned over the years is that mental anguish can be just as crippling as physiological pain. Maybe even more. Hence the rise...