{"id":1441,"date":"2005-03-27T11:08:24","date_gmt":"2005-03-27T19:08:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/03\/27\/if-youre-not-pissed-off-then-try-following-some-of-these-links\/"},"modified":"2005-03-27T11:08:24","modified_gmt":"2005-03-27T19:08:24","slug":"if-youre-not-pissed-off-then-try-following-some-of-these-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1441","title":{"rendered":"If you&#039;re not pissed off, then try following some of these links"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pandagon.net\/mtarchives\/004837.html\">Damn, but Amanda is brilliant<\/a>. Check out her discussion of the politics of the anti-single-motherhood hysteria: &#8220;Divorce and electing not to marry are the feminist equivalent of unionizing and going on strike.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>And while you&#8217;re at it, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/trishwilson.typepad.com\/blog\/2005\/03\/fatherless_stat.html\">Trish&#8217;s debunking (for the nth time) of the claim<\/a> that social science shows that &#8220;fatherlessness&#8221; means the sky is falling.<\/li>\n<li>Many more women than men lost their lives in the Tsunami. Now, with some towns having a male-female ratio of 3-1 or more, women are being valued much more highly and treated better than ever, right? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2005\/WORLD\/asiapcf\/03\/26\/tsunami.women.ap\/index.html\">Of course not<\/a>.<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>Sri Lankan women have reportedly been sexually assaulted in camp toilets and domestic violence is on the rise, the report found. Indian widows are now placed on the lowest rung of society where they can never remarry and must depend on their in-laws to survive. Indonesian women, according to Oxfam and women activists, are being sexually harassed in camps, forced or rushed into marrying much older men and victimized by abusive Indonesian soldiers who reportedly have strip searched them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Via <a href=\"http:\/\/feministing.com\/archives\/001094.html\">Samhita at Feministing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/billmon.org\/archives\/001771.html\">Whiskey Bar discusses why he blogs<\/a>; what&#8217;s the point, when it&#8217;s so clear that trying to tell the truth is simply irrelevant to politics? I relate to a lot of what he says; too often blogging feels like trying to turn back a storm by yelling at it. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificviews.org\/weblog\/archives\/001005.html\">Pacific Views<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Speaking of futile efforts, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radgeek.com\/gt\/2005\/03\/26\/fathers_for\">RadGeek<\/a> recently attempted to explain to a father&#8217;s rights activist that it&#8217;s wrong to lie about what feminists say. He was met, of course, with total incomprehension &#8211; like trying to explain the appeal of Picasso&#8217;s blue period to a shellfish.<\/li>\n<li>Paid family leave, low infant mortality, decent child care; <a href=\"http:\/\/guerillawomentn.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/family-values-culture-of-life-try.html\">Egalia <\/a>thinks that these things are what <em>a real <\/em>culture of life would include. What a nut!<\/li>\n<li><strong>Rape-excusing Sleazebags in the army<\/strong>: &#8220;After considering all the facts and weighing all the interests at stake, the Acting Secretary found that no administrative action is warranted against those officers identified in those reports as bearing some responsibility for Academy&#8217;s sexual assault problems.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/shakespearessister.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/more-things-change-more-they-stay-same.html\">Shakespeare&#8217;s Sister<\/a> has the story, via <a href=\"http:\/\/thirdwaveagenda.blogspot.com\/2005\/03\/support-our-troops-unless-theyre.html\">Third Wave Agenda<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pacificviews.org\/weblog\/archives\/001007.html\">Pacific Views<\/a> quotes from this fascinating (although very partisan) Harper&#8217;s Magazine essay arguing <a href=\"http:\/\/harpers.org\/LifeEverlasting.html\">in favor of Physician-Assisted Suicide<\/a>. Here&#8217;s a tiny sample:<br \/>\n<blockquote><p>You will notice, for example, how the fear of playing God operates exclusively on one side of the medical playground. Thus to help a patient end his or her life &#8220;prematurely&#8221;? is playing God, while extending it in ways and under conditions that no God lacking horns and a cloven hoof could ever have intended is the mandate of &#8220;our Judeo-Christian heritage&#8221;? and the Hippocratic oath.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/li>\n<li>Homophobes in Ohio are so determined to make sure that no gay person has civil rights, they&#8217;re yanking civil rights away from unmarried women too. I&#8217;ve commented on this before, but back then it was just a legal theory. Now a judge has made it reality: &#8220;Domestic violence charges cannot be filed against unmarried people because of Ohio&#8217;s new constitutional amendment banning gay marriage, a judge ruled Wednesday.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mediagirl.org\/2005\/03\/no-marriage-no-domestic-violence\">Media Girl has the story.<\/a>\n<p><strong>UPDATE<\/strong>: It appears that there have been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc4i.com\/news\/4320372\/detail.html\">two contrary Ohio court decisions<\/a>, so presumably it&#8217;ll be up to the Ohio Supreme Court to decide if unmarried couples can be treated like married couples for the purpose of domestic violence law. Stay tuned&#8230;<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unimpressed.net\/archives\/000136.html\">Lorenzo at Unimpressed<\/a> discusses how appeals to &#8220;rationality&#8221; &#8220;reasonability&#8221; and &#8220;objectivity&#8221; are often used to mask a total lack of, well, rationality, reason, and objectivity.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damn, but Amanda is brilliant. Check out her discussion of the politics of the anti-single-motherhood hysteria: &#8220;Divorce and electing not to marry are the feminist equivalent of unionizing and going on strike.&#8221; And while you&#8217;re at it, check out Trish&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1441\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1441","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-farms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1441\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}