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  • Re: Rape/Incest

    The pro-life movement is not about life. It's about forcing a woman to follow someone else's religious convictions instead of her own. That violates the separation of church and state. It's un-American and unpatriotic. Pro-choice supports the separation of church and state, allowing each woman to act according to what she believes. Life is ...
    Posted to XX Factor by acampbell on October 3, 2008

  • Sen. Palin and the Rape Kits

    But Palin was the mayor and her city was charging victims for their rape kits. Whether the Alaskan legislature's law against that practice was because of Wasilla is irrelevant. It was her town and she allowed the practice. The 'myth' is not debunked. The elaborations of it are, but the basic 'myth' is fact. Mayor Palin allowed her city to charge ...
    Posted to XX Factor by acampbell on October 3, 2008

  • Troopergate: He was fired for trying to stop sex assaults

    If you haven't heard when Sarah Palin was the mayor of Wasilla, the city charged sexual assault victims for the cost of rape kits and forensic examinations. The Violence Against Women Act. Joe Biden's legislation required that state, local, and Indian governments provide the rape exams to victims free of charge as a condition of receiving ...
    Posted to Trailhead by Poly on September 17, 2008

  • Lucy Caldwell's Misogyny

    It's extremely disappointing to see that Lucy Caldwell is contributing to Slate. It's especially ironic to see that she's contributing to the XX Factor, since her comments in the past have been so hurtful to women. At best, Lucy Caldwell has been insensitive regarding issues of gender and sexuality. At worst, she has been downright ...
    Posted to XX Factor by Hicks House on July 23, 2008

  • Re: The Nature of the Crime

    Fair enough. But if they are meant to represent the constitution, then their rulings must be based in it. Stating that a punishment is cruel and unusual, by citing the difficulties potentially placed on witness's who may testify in those trials, is straying from the point. They are meant then to assess the crime, the punishment, and whether or ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Den on June 26, 2008

  • The Nature of the Crime

    Your average murder will only kill once or twice. Your average rapist is a lifetime offender. If you put a murderer to death, you do it for vengeance/justice. If you put a child rapist to death, you not only punish someone who has destroyed a life, but you save many people from the fate of becoming the offenders future victims. It is never ...
    Posted to The Breakfast Table by Den on June 26, 2008

  • Smoking Prostitutes

    I forgot to mention in my earlier post that it is interesting that you found a picture of a woman in some kind of cloak, presumably a chador, smoking a cigarette. Smoking is, and has long been, an icon of prostitution, and very many book covers and other illustrations of prostitutes show them with cigarettes. This is partly because women who ...
    Posted to Explainer by David Farer on April 28, 2008

  • Prostitutes, Persian and Non-Persian

    The article raised a number of points that I recognized about prostitutes, even though those I interviewed and ultimately managed were in Amsterdam rather than in Iran. You mention that many or most of the Iranian prostitutes were runaways. Runaways rarely run away without good reason. At the head of the list of good reasons is child abuse, whose ...
    Posted to Explainer by David Farer on April 28, 2008

  • Re: Murderers and Rapists

    Life in prison versus the death sentence... The first argument that comes to mind is which one do you think is cruel and unusual? A. You have wronged your fellows and are very to likely to continue down this path so; your life is forfeit. or B. You have wronged your fellows and are very likely to continue down this path so; you are to be ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by Den on April 18, 2008

  • Murderers and Rapists

    Rapists destroy lives. With brutal violence, with cruelty, and with a complete disregard for any humanity present in their victims. They kill the person that was there before their attack. While not commonly physically lethal, rape scars the mind, it damages natural social responses, and can, and has, harmed people so completely that they ...
    Posted to Supreme Court Dispatches by Den on April 17, 2008
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