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Melissa Harris-Perry: Professor. For Those Who Don’t Understand Schrodinger’s Rapist, Part Two. For Those Who Don’t Understand Schrodinger’s Rapist. It continually astounds me how many people don’t seem to understand the basics of the Schrodinger’s Rapist analogy.

For Those Who Don’t Understand Schrodinger’s Rapist

Being that my blog has been getting some traffic from people who don’t get it, I thought I’d take a stab at elucidating the idea. If you haven’t read the original post, go there now, and I’ll wait here while you finish. Okay, good. Now, the Not-Really-Getting-It responses to this analogy are generally along the lines of: You think all men are rapists! The “all men are potential rapists” bit is not saying what many people seem to think. Imagine a friend asks you to play a game of Russian roulette. Guest Blogger Starling: Schrödinger’s Rapist: or a guy’s guide to approaching strange women without being maced. Phaedra Starling is the pen name of a romance novelist and licensed private investigator living in small New York City apartment with two large dogs.

She practices Brazilian jiu-jitsu and makes world-class apricot muffins. Gentlemen. Thank you for reading. Let me start out by assuring you that I understand you are a good sort of person. You are kind to children and animals. What To Do During A Break-In. It’s 2 a.m.

What To Do During A Break-In

You are awakened by a noise downstairs. More noise. Someone is in the house! Your heart pounds…your mind races. Cis Privilege Checklist. The Cisgender Privilege Checklist. "There appears to be little in the way of a comprehensive cisgender (non transgender) privilege list.

The Cisgender Privilege Checklist

These lists are generally written in the first person relative to having the privilege. The Heterosexual Privilege Checklist. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack "I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group" Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women's studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men's unwillingness to grant that they are overprivileged, even though they may grant that women are disadvantaged.

White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

They may say they will work to women's statues, in the society, the university, or the curriculum, but they can't or won't support the idea of lessening men's. Denials that amount to taboos surround the subject of advantages that men gain from women's disadvantages. The monosexual privilege checklist. This text also appears in my book Bi: Notes for a Bisexual Revolution.

The monosexual privilege checklist

If you like it, please consider buying a copy. En Español: La lista del privilegio monosexual, and thanks to the people at La Radical Bi! Before you continue: One huge clarification! Opower. You’re Addicted to What? NessFraser.com. Draegonhawke: Not Your Mom’s Trans 101 « Tranarchism. There is a huge problem with the way that people are taught about gender in this society.

Not Your Mom’s Trans 101 « Tranarchism

Children are indoctrinated early to believe that there are two sexes, corresponding with two genders, which are both immutable and non-voluntary and completely beyond our control. This worldview is called the gender binary, and it has no room in it for us. Trying to teach a new perspective to the victims of this extremely aggressive brainwashing can be daunting. In fact, the task can seem downright impossible. The temptation, therefore, is to “dumb things down” for the benefit of a cisgender audience. Near the beginning of my transition, I myself taught “Trans 101” this way. § Prawo rodzinne i opiekuńcze - Forum Prawne. Psycholog Warszawa, Psychologia Warszawa NFZ - ZnanyLekarz.pl. Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje. Fundacja Dzieci Niczyje. Aktualności. 18 lutego 2008 r. nadinsp.

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Tadeusz Budzik komendant główny Policji podpisał nowe Zarządzenie Nr 162 w sprawie metod i form wykonywania przez Policję zadań w związku z przemocą w rodzinie w ramach procedury "Niebieskie Karty", które wchodzi w życie 1 marca 2008 r. Do wszystkich ofiar przemocy! Przemoc psychiczna. Runaway Slave. The Angry Black Woman - Race, Gender, Sexuality, Politics, Anger. Baby Love Child. Baby Love Child » Adoptee Rights 101: Class Bastard and how to recognize a genuine adoptee rights bill. Yes, my blog has been quiet here for a bit, for a number of reasons, some of which I hope to write to a bit later on.

Baby Love Child » Adoptee Rights 101: Class Bastard and how to recognize a genuine adoptee rights bill

In the mean time, I’ve obviously got a massive backlog of things to write, some of which I will get to, others, I may not. That said, watching much of what has been going on in adoptionland as of late, particularly after the disastrous passage of the Illinois bill, over and over again falsely portrayed as “Adoptee rights legislation,” it’s become increasingly clear that many people, particularly those new to the field (though even more sadly, some of those who are not) are unable to tell the difference between a genuine piece of adoption rights restoration based legislation and damaging or co-optive fake adoptee related legislation. So I’m going to pull out to sort of the big picture basics here for a moment. A short note on terminology. In the below I’m going to attempt to make some space for that reality by using terminology like “the full class of people denied access.”