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August 21, 2009

Am I a sexist for saying I favour this?

Filed under: Law — Tags: EqualRights, NSFW, Women — Nicholas @ 12:03

By way of The Register. At risk of being labelled as a sexist, I think GoTopless (probably NSFW in most workplaces) is a worthy effort:

Welcome to GoTopless.org! – We are a US organization, claiming that women have the same constitutional right to be bare chested in public places as men.

[. . .]

Why a National GoTopless Protest day? Gotopless.org claims constitutional equality between men and women on being topless in public. Currently, women who dare to be topless in public in the US are repeatedly being arrested, fined, humiliated, criminalized. On SUNDAY AUGUST 23RD, 2009, topless women will rally in great numbers across the USA to protest this gross inequality in the law and will demand that they be granted the fundamental right to be topless where men already enjoy that right according to the 14th amendment of the Constitution (please see our exact legal argument on the right to be topfree for women under “14th amendment” in news section)

It’s legal here in Ontario, although I don’t think I’ve seen anyone taking advantage of the newly established right since the day after it became legal . . .

However, my support for this particular effort in no way means I’m in favour of the Raelian agenda . . . which is, um, spacey in the extreme.

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July 26, 2009

QotD: Over-eager fans

Filed under: Books, Humour, Quotations — Tags: LoisMcMasterBujold, Women — Nicholas @ 09:14

Whoever asked “What’s next?” Note that I just finished the book on Tuesday.

There are people who inquire brightly of new mothers, as they are being wheeled out of the delivery room, “So, when are you going to have another?” These people would deservedly be in want of their kneecaps, if only the mothers could get up.

Lois McMaster Bujold, posting to the Bujold mailing list, 2009-07-26

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July 15, 2009

QotD: The Matriarchy

Filed under: Media, Quotations — Tags: Children, LoisMcMasterBujold, Parents, Psychology, Sociology, Women — Nicholas @ 07:29

[Alan Oak]: In a correspondence with feminist scholar Sylvia Kelso, published in Women of Other Worlds (1999), you wrote:

“Where has anyone experienced a matriarchy for test comparison?” you may ask. In fact, most of us have, as children. When the scale of our whole world was one long block long, it was a world dominated and controlled by women. Who were twice our size, drove cars, had money, could hit us if they wanted to and we couldn’t ever hit them back. Hence, at bottom, my deep, deep suspicion of feminism, matriarchy, etc. Does this mean putting my mother in charge of the world, and me demoted to a child again? No thanks, I’ll pass . . .

This leads me to another thought [. . .] Women do desperately need models for power other than the maternal. Nothing is more likely to set any subordinate’s back up, whether they be male or female, than for their boss to come the “mother knows best” routine at them. We need a third place to stand. I’m just not clear how it became my job to supply it.

Lois McMaster Bujold, interviewed by Alan Oak at WomenWriters.net, 2009-06

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July 14, 2009

Random links of possible interest

Filed under: Randomness, Space — Tags: Addiction, Apollo, GreatDepression, Moon, Women — Nicholas @ 09:26

Just a few links to provide you with click-therapy:

China decides that electro-shock therapy isn’t appropriate for treating “internet addiction”. No word on whether they’ve invested in Tasers instead.
Simona Halep ignores an online petition and decides to promote her sports career over the interests of thousand of pasty internet geeks.
Apollo 11 experience recreated on the web.
I can’t possibly improve on this article’s title: Pic of the Day (Mid-1930s’ Edition): Economic Suicide Girls Get Tattooed For the NRA!
Sure hope those were temporary tattoos!

Tim Cavanaugh fisks Timothy Geithner.
Auto Czar abdicates.
An over-the-top analysis of why there is a Gender Gap among American voters (link via Gerard Van der Leun).
Survey shows that one in six people too dumb to be allowed out on the internet by themselves.

(Cross-posted to the old blog, http://bolditalic.com/quotulatiousness_archive/005579.html.)

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