tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122011366604192824.post1867785862862576853..comments2014-09-07T09:02:16.328-05:00Comments on This One Shall Be Called Woman: Song of Solomon 7-8NulleFidehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05715257430971565382noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122011366604192824.post-19539046819266876452011-02-25T16:39:12.106-06:002011-02-25T16:39:12.106-06:00No need to apologize for your previous comment, at...No need to apologize for your previous comment, at least not for me. I took it for the snark it was. You've left enough comments on here for me to tell that isn't your usual MO. And don't take my silence at it as some sort of offense either, I've been particularly stressed lately and have been spending as much time relaxing with games and art as I can, so I've been a little AWOL from the blog other than moderating comments and writing my posts.<br /><br />I can understand your frustration. I've felt like the constantly onslaught against women's rights that has been going on for a while now is just getting to be too much for me. Yesterday I read about the bill that passed which would consider pretty much any woman who has a miscarriage as a <a href="http://www.rhrealitycheck.org/blog/2010/02/20/utah-bill-criminalizes-miscarriage" rel="nofollow">potential murder suspect</a>. That just kinda put me over the edge. Justifiable homicide bills, bills that try to limit the definition of rape and incest for women who are trying to seek abortions about their rapes, bills that seek to treat women like infants where they must be shown a sonogram and hear a heartbeat of their fetus before they can have an abortion, congress trying to remove all federal funding for Planned Parenthood...<br /><br />Honestly, it's too much. It's gotten to the point where I don't understand how we still have people claiming that sexism in the US isn't that bad. This war that is being waged against women is horrible and so visible that I basically want to punch everyone in the face who seems to be unable to see it.<br /><br />So I understand the snark and the anger. I really, really do. I'm kind of trying to avoid places I know are filled with jackoffs who haven't a single clue about feminism or sexism because I know all it will do is piss me off and have the potential for me to blow up at some people, where blowing up would not help the situation in the least.<br /><br />I do mention that judge who recently let that rapist go without jail time in today's post. Because that shit is ridiculous. Haven't heard anything that stupid since the judge who claimed a woman couldn't be raped if she was wearing skinny jeans. Because we all know how impossible skinny jeans are to take off. Best rape prevention ever. -_- <br /><br />So it's cool, no harm done really. I'm a person who believes that sometimes sarcasm and snark can be thoughtful and effective in discussions. Of course, I can also be very abrasive in discussions with people I greatly disagree with so maybe I'm not the best judge here, lol. :PNulleFidehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05715257430971565382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122011366604192824.post-71352930450560273872011-02-25T13:46:53.459-06:002011-02-25T13:46:53.459-06:00The comment above is snark on the message I take f...The comment above is snark on the message I take from the Bible. I apologize for it ending up as an offensive message rather than a thoughtful comment.<br /><br />I've been reading a thread over at Pharyngula where a judge gave a wrist-slap of a sentence to a convicted rapist because the victim was asking for it. In particular, this <a href="http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2011/02/its_open_season_on_women_and_d.php#comment-3372671" rel="nofollow">comment</a> made me stop and think. The attitudes carped about in the previous comment are evil, and I wish I'd written that out more thoughtfully.Efogotonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5122011366604192824.post-21612767047552481632011-02-24T15:58:21.263-06:002011-02-24T15:58:21.263-06:00Hey now! Women don't have power in the Bible, ...Hey now! Women don't have power in the Bible, not even mystical vagina power. Rather, men have lust and the need to satiate it.<br /><br />It's fine for boys to get sex when they can (Judah and Tamar <a href="http://thisoneshallbecalledwoman.blogspot.com/2010/05/genesis-38-42_04.html" rel="nofollow">Gen:38</a>), but any girl having sex is wrong (Judah and Tamar Gen:38). There's a little fine tuning on that; boys are not to use livestock, adulteresses, other boys, or their own hands [loose interpretation of the story of Onan, who didn't masturbate but pulled out before ejaculating] because those are bad things.<br /><br />It's rules for men, written by men, enforced on women. Men have needs, women have masters.Efogotonoreply@blogger.com