Afghan-Americans Grapple With Homophobia, Shock  

Afghan-Americans are grappling with shock, shame and the taboo topics of homophobia and religious intolerance in their community in the wake of Omar Mateen’s massacre of dozens at a gay nightclub.

…Omar Aziz, founder of U.S.-Afghan Islamic think tank, The Samovar Network, agreed there was a “dual challenge” of assimilation and anti-Muslim rhetoric. However, he said: “Mateen alone bears responsibility for his crime. His family, his faith and his Afghan community do not.”

Orlando Shooting: Afghan-Americans Grapple With Homophobia, Shock – NBC News

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Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Skeletons From Our Past

“who has sacrificed her feminine power by excelling in the imperialist white supremacist capitalistic patriarchal narrative.”


Open Letter to Hillary Rodham Clinton: Skeletons From Our Past

What an ignorant, hateful, little cunt this author is.  …And crazy. Total fucking nutjob whackjob.

Her thesis is that Clinton is somehow culpable in a violent sexual assault (that she has absolutely zero connection to) because the author does not approve of attorney’s defending criminals who are guilty? Never mind that one of the few saving graces of our (in)justice  system is that all defendants have to right to a defense, the right to an attorney making their case for them in the court of law… OR that all defense attorney’s might be in that position at one point or another. This random fact provides the basis to indite Clinton for… Well, it’s really hard to tell for what exactly.

Or does the author simply hate on the woman because she does not approve of Clinton making headway and having some success swimming upstream against the social currents of patriarchy? The thinking seems to run that to succeed in less than ideal circumstances is somehow an offense to those who did not. It comes off as nasty, shrill, jealousy and nothing more.

Earth to ignorant little troll, there is nothing more anti-woman than hating on a woman for no other reason that she experienced success in a male-centric environment.

Calling someone racist (and let’s be honest here, that is all that is implied when someone uses the term “mighty white” in this context) because they don’t see things exactly as you do is not only ignorant and insulting to anyone involved in actual struggle for actual, real-life justice in the face of actual, non-fictional racism but reeks of jealousy and bigotry on the part of the person mis-using the term.

…And blaming a woman, any woman, for the sins of people she does not know and has no contact has no merit in fact or ideal.

In fact, blaming a woman for a crime committed by a man against other women does nothing other than pull all women down.

The only person culpable in the act of shitting on other women here is the author. That fact is glaringly obvious. There is no justification, and indeed no honor, in assigning blame to those who are wholly unconnected to the offense. It is a tactic employed by those who seek to divide and conquer, those who work against raising people up and empowering them.

If the author thinks she is anything other than a tool of the patriarchy, engaging in tearing all women down and help to keep them down-trodden and oppressed, well she need to listen to that alarm bell. Right now she is the polar opposite of woke as fuck.

 

Clinton Touts Historic Night 

Clinton won in New Jersey, New Mexico, South Dakota and was leading in California, while Sanders notched victories in Montana and the North Dakota caucuses.

“Tonight’s victory is not about one person; it belongs to generations of women and men who sacrificed and made this moment possible,” Clinton told a cheering crowd in Brooklyn, N.Y., exactly eight years after she fell short in her first quest for the presidency to Barack Obama.

She thanked Sanders for the “vigorous debate” he and his supporters have spurred on economic inequality, calling it “good for the Democratic Party.”

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Clinton’s campaign and other Democrats point out that at this point, her lead over Sanders is nearly three times larger than President Obama’s was over Clinton in their 2008 primary fight. With her wins Tuesday, she also claimed a majority of the pledged delegates throughout the campaign cycle.

But with Clinton’s speech and in a video unveiled earlier Tuesday, she was already looking ahead to November and reminding voters that she has broken one of the thickest glass ceilings in political history.

Clinton Touts Historic Night As Sanders Vows To Fight On

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Ex-Stanford swimmer’s dad calls son’s 6-month sentence for rape ‘a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action’

The father of an ex-Stanford University swimmer who was sentenced to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman last week believes his son should have received probation because the 20-year-old has already suffered for “20 minutes of action.”

On Thursday, Brock Turner was given a six-month prison sentence for his sexual assault of a woman in January 2015 outside a fraternity party on the school’s Palo Alto campus. His dad argued that Brock’s label as a sexual offender, his loss of appetite and a swimming scholarship is punishment enough.

Ex-Stanford swimmer’s dad calls son’s 6-month sentence for rape ‘a steep price to pay for 20 minutes of action’
Absolutely no question about where this young man got his skewed sense of responsibility for his own actions and the effects those actions might have on others. Piss poor parenting. It’s never absent in cases like this. It is all well and good to have your kid’s back and see the best in them but come on!

His parents should be ashamed of themselves for bringing up the inconveniences their son experienced because of his own, thoughtless, immoral,  and 100% criminal assault on an unconscious individual. His suffering will never begin to reach the level of the suffering he has inflicted on the actual victim (You know, victim… As in, not the perpetrator) in this case.

I hate to blame the parents for the actions of a legal adult but in this case I would say that they deserved to be tarred and feathered on their way out of town.

 

20 Things Women Over 30 Shouldn’t Wear & Why That’s Total Bollocks 

Look Kallie, I’ll give you a little hint.  “By this age, women should know” is never a good way to start a sentence, unless it’s “women should know that their true value is invested not in the clothes they choose to wear but the impact they leave upon society and the world through their actions and personalities” or “women should know to look both ways before crossing the road”.

Or perhaps “Women should know never to tell another woman how to dress, not least when half the items they discuss refer specifically to the way they appear to the opposite gender and how attractive they appear”.  Women should know that rocket scientists can wear disco pants, neurosurgeons can wear crop tops, good listeners can wear furry boots, lovers can wear dungarees, and activists can wear hoop earrings.  Women should know that what they do, and what they say, is so much more important than what they wear.

20 Things Women Over 30 Shouldn’t Wear & Why That’s Total Bollocks – Bells & Whistles

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24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear 

This morning, as I was perusing through my Facebook timeline, I happened upon an article that a lovely friend shared. It was entitled “24 Things Women Should Stop Wearing After Age 30,’ and it triggered Maximum Eye-Rolling from everyone who took the time out to read it.

Motivated by Kallie’s “article”, I decided to churn up one of my own! I bring you now:

24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear:

Whatever the fuck they want

24 Things Women Over 30 Should Wear – warning:curves ahead

Ayup.

Letter A Rape Victim Read To the Assailant in Court

Unfortunately, after reading the defendant’s report, I am severely disappointed and feel that [the assailant] has failed to exhibit sincere remorse or responsibility for his conduct. I fully respected his right to a trial, but even after twelve jurors unanimously convicted him guilty of three felonies, all he has admitted to doing is ingesting alcohol. Someone who cannot take full accountability for his actions does not deserve a mitigating sentence. It is deeply offensive that he would try and dilute rape with a suggestion of “promiscuity”. By definition rape is the absence of promiscuity, rape is the absence of consent, and it perturbs me deeply that he can’t even see that distinction.

On the other hand, as a society, we cannot forgive everyone’s first sexual assault or digital rape. It doesn’t make sense. The seriousness of rape has to be communicated clearly, we should not create a culture that suggests we learn that rape is wrong through trial and error. The consequences of sexual assault needs to be severe enough that people feel enough fear to exercise good judgment even if they are drunk, severe enough to be preventative.

…How fast [the assailant] swims does not lessen the severity of what happened to me, and should not lessen the severity of his punishment. If a first time offender from an underprivileged background was accused of three felonies and displayed no accountability for his actions other than drinking, what would his sentence be? The fact that [the assailant] was an athlete at a private university should not be seen as an entitlement to leniency, but as an opportunity to send a message that sexual assault is against the law regardless of social class.

Here’s The Powerful Letter The Stanford Victim Read To Her Attacker – BuzzFeed News

Amen.

Muhammad Ali:  30 powerful tributes 

“I would like to be remembered as a man who won the heavyweight title three times, who was humorous and who treated everyone right.

“As a man who never looked down on those who looked up to him…who stood up for his beliefs…who tried to unite all humankind through faith and love.

“And if all that’s too much, then I guess I’d settle for being remembered only as a great boxer who became a leader and a champion of his people. And I wouldn’t even mind if folks forgot how pretty I was.”

Muhammad Ali: How the internet reacted – 30 powerful tributes to boxing’s G.O.A.T.

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Women react to Saudi $3.5bn Uber cash injection – AJE News

“So it is an additional service that facilitates the lifestyles of one sector of Saudi women, who are the minority.” …[Hatoon al-Fassi, a women’s rights activist and academic at King Saud University] warned against interpreting the popularity of Uber as a feat for women’s rights.”It is not this [Uber] that will make the difference … there are people that have an interest in keeping women the way they are.”

Women react to Saudi $3.5bn Uber cash injection – AJE News

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It Took A Deadly Attack For CNN To Make Time For Pro-Choice Advocates In Its Slanted Abortion Discussions

In 2015 and early 2016, CNN hosted more than twice as many anti-choice guests as pro-choice guests on its evening news programs, according to a new Media Matters study. CNN also didn’t host any reproductive rights advocates as guests until November’s fatal attack on a Colorado Springs, CO, Planned Parenthood health care center. 

It Took A Deadly Attack For CNN To Make Time For Pro-Choice Advocates In Its Slanted Abortion Discussions

CNN killed the journalism star.

STUDY: How Cable News Talks About Abortion

A Media Matters study of 14 months of evening cable news programs found that discussions of abortion were weighted toward anti-choice speakers, which resulted in widespread misinformation on the topic. 

  • 705 statements containing inaccurate abortion-related information aired on Fox News;
  • 70 percent of Fox News appearances* were by people — including hosts, correspondents, and guests — who either identify as anti-choice or who consistently or mostly made anti-choice statements;
  • CNN had three times the number of anti-choice guest appearances as pro-choice;
  • 40 percent of all appearances on all three networks [Fox, CNN, MSNBC] were made by people who either identify as anti-choice or who consistently or mostly made anti-choice statements;
  • 17 percent of all appearances on all three networks were made by people who either identify as pro-choice or consistently or mostly made pro-choice statements;
  • 62 percent of all appearances on all networks — including hosts, correspondents, and guests — were male; and
  • There was one appearance by a group that represents and advocates for reproductive rights for women of color.

STUDY: How Cable News Talks About Abortion

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