Radical Feminists and Conservative Christians Team Up Against Transgender People The right has been using the writings of trans-exclusive radical feminists to justify their crusade. It’s not the first time the far left and far right have teamed up. When you read the Christian Right’s wacky, ignorant statements about transgender people, have you ever wondered where they get this stuff? The answer, often, is feminists. In fact, the surprising nexus between radical feminists and Christian Right culture warriors has been with us a long time. And now, some essentialist feminists – pejoratively nicknamed TERFs, for “Trans-Exclusive Radical Feminists” – have provided the pseudo-philosophical basis for fundamentalist Christians’ anti-transgender laws. Cole Parke, LGBTQ & Gender Justice researcher at the left-leaning think tank Political Research Associates, has been tracking what Parke describes as a “symbiotic relationship” between TERFs and the Christian Right. But the alliance with anti-transgender forces on the right has further reaching implications. Thank You!
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Squashed Philosophers Las 100 mejores frases del genio del humor Groucho Marx 1 ¡Hay tantas cosas en la vida más importantes que el dinero... ¡pero cuestan tanto! 2 ¿A quién va usted a creer, a mí o a sus propios ojos? 3 ¿No es usted la señorita Smith, hija del banquero multimillonario Smith? ¿No? Perdone, por un momento pensé que me había enamorado de usted. 4 ¿Pagar la cuenta? 5 ¿Por qué debería preocuparme por la posteridad? 6 ¿Por qué lo llaman amor cuando quieren decir sexo? 7 ¿Qué por qué estaba yo con esa mujer? 8 ¿Servicio de habitaciones? 9 Citadme diciendo que me han citado mal. 10 Claro que lo entiendo. 11 Conozco a centenares de maridos que serían felices de volver al hogar sino hubiese una esposa esperándoles. 12 Cualquiera que diga que puede ver a través de las mujeres se está perdiendo un montón de cosas. 13 Cuando muera quiero que me incineren y que el diez por ciento de mis cenizas sean vertidas sobre mi empresario. 14 Debo confesar que nací a una edad muy temprana. 15 Desde el momento en que cogí su libro me caí al suelo rodando de risa. 66 ¡Oh!
20 Of The Best Experimental Short Films You Can Watch Online During the 1920s art house cinema was beginning to gain its reputation as respectable filmmaking. This opened the doors for even more radical types of movies, one that would even question the basic narrative structure all films were following at the time. This was known as experimental or avant-garde cinema. Most directors were forced to use their own money in order to make these films. Another factor that motivated the rise of these kinds of movies were the artistic trends of the early twentieth century. This list highlights some of the most prominent sub genres from experimental films. With the arrival of sound, even more styles were developed. After World War II other innovative trends were created. Contemporary experimental films are reminiscent of past sub genres. After structuralist cinema’s domination, most budgets were reduced because of costly filmmaking styles. 20. Dulac abandoned commercial filmmaking and impressionistic cinema to direct a Surrealist film. 19. 18. 17. 16.
Sweden’s rape crisis isn’t what it seems - The Globe and Mail Sweden, the story goes, used to be very peaceful, very safe, very blond. Then it started letting in darker-skinned people. Soon there were news reports of attacks on Swedes. Now, Sweden records the highest incidence of rape in the world. The Sweden story has become absolutely viral. You’ve probably read a version in a Facebook post, or heard it in a speech or debate. Behind it you’ll find the resurrection of an old, deadly appeal to fear – that people of certain skin colours are natural-born predators who threaten white women. And it falls apart as soon as you speak to anyone knowledgeable in Sweden. “What we’re hearing is a very, very extreme exaggeration based on a few isolated events, and the claim that it’s related to immigration is more or less not true at all,” says Jerzy Sarnecki, a criminologist at Stockholm University who has devoted his career to the study of criminality, ethnicity and age. In a sense. Why the difference? That is the real Swedish crisis. Report Typo/Error
The Inner Forms the Outer - Parabola Photograph by Lee van Laer Human beings are peculiar creatures. We can think; and it sets us apart from other creatures, who can think some (consider the honeybee) but not much. Thinking, over the last 10,000 or so years (a rough estimate,) mankind has occupied himself, in the disciplines of science and philosophy, with the question of what, exactly, we are. This is, indeed, the question at the core of all the great traditions as well, which presume a spiritual — or inner — nature that forms the outer one. Lo and behold! The microorganisms that inhabit our gut, our skin, and more or less all the other parts of our body, are our partners in biology; and it turns out that they help form the way we think and behave. This has been true for hundreds of millions of years, as it happens; huge dinosaurs such as Apatosaurus (a.k.a. Think of it this way, if you will. I doubt it is that simple — but I also doubt that we are free of these concerns.
Persona miserable espera pacientemente tras la puerta para no decir “Hola” al vecino Deteniéndose por completo como un animal asustado tras escuchar un ruido al otro lado de la puerta, un vecino de Barcelona ha esperado pacientemente en su casa, a oscuras, a que el vecino terminara de entrar en su piso para poder salir él sin verse obligado a abrir su boca y decir “Hola” y mantener una mínima interacción humana, según han informado fuentes cercanas. “Espera un segundo, espera, hay alguien…”, se ha dicho a sí mismo afinando el oído al máximo y analizando con detenimiento los pasos de su vecino y el sonido de su cerradura. También, según las fuentes, habría contenido la respiración para no hacer ningún ruido y no delatar su presencia. “Aún no, aún no salgas… espera, espera… vamos, vamos, hijo de puta, que tengo prisa”, ha dicho mientras permanecía completamente a oscuras, contemplando la puerta cerrada de su hogar como si pudiera ver a través de la misma y sujetando sus llaves con fuerza para que no produjeran sonido.
The World's Largest Poetry Site - Discussion & Poem Contests Terrorism and the other Religions | Informed Comment Contrary to what is alleged by bigots like Bill Maher, Muslims are not more violent than people of other religions. Murder rates in most of the Muslim world are very low compared to the United States. As for political violence, people of Christian heritage in the twentieth century polished off tens of millions of people in the two world wars and colonial repression. This massive carnage did not occur because European Christians are worse than or different from other human beings, but because they were the first to industrialize war and pursue a national model. Sometimes it is argued that they did not act in the name of religion but of nationalism. I don’t figure that Muslims killed more than a 2 million people or so in political violence in the entire twentieth century, and that mainly in the Iran-Iraq War 1980-1988 and the Soviet and post-Soviet wars in Afghanistan, for which Europeans bear some blame. I could go on and on. As for religious terrorism, that too is universal.
for drug policy reform Ampliarán la Nada para que quepan más nihilistas El incremento de las actitudes nihilistas y de las crisis de fe en los últimos años está obligando a plantear una ampliación de la Nada. Según datos de las Naciones Unidas, si el nihilismo sigue creciendo al mismo ritmo los próximos años, en 2020 ya habrá más gente en la Nada que en el Todo. “Se ha disparado el número de nihilistas obligados a creer en cualquier cosa de forma provisional por la imposibilidad de instalarse en la Nada de manera permanente”, explican los expertos, que alertan de que “para un nihilista es insoportable vivir en un mundo de falsas certezas y verdades incognoscibles o incomunicables”. Los nihilistas temen que la situación actual, en la que muchos sólo se pueden permitir cuestionar el sentido de sus vidas en momentos puntuales, se cronifique. Pese a ello, no se han planteado tomar medidas “porque, total, para qué”.
Costa Rica Covered in 8 Million Flower Petals Advertising agency Mccann has commissioned photographer Nick Meek to visualize the images for the campaign of sony‘s new 4k TV. 8 million flower petals were collected for the project… Nick Meek