by Carl Howard | Aug 11, 2015 | Atheism and Religion, Blogging Jewish Law, Blogging the Bible, Feminism and LGBT
You may have seen the news about Yishai Schlissel: he stabbed marchers during Jerusalem’s LGBT parade in 2005, served 10 years and did it again as soon as he got out. He stabbed six people at last week’s parade including 16yo Shira Banki who died of her wounds. This...
by Carl Howard | Jul 21, 2015 | Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: sexual assault talk, more graphic than previous posts] Last week, I looked at the specific wording of a law that talks about the application of affirmative consent in Californian colleges. One part of the law deserved a post of its own: Affirmative consent must...
by Carl Howard | Jul 14, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last week I posted about what a paradigm of affirmative consent would look like. A lot of the post was general, not talking about specific legislation. And yet, the whole media frenzy was around some of the new affirmative consent laws in...
by Carl Howard | Jul 7, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Sex
[CN: Sexual assault etc.] Last year, the idea of affirmative consent was first put into place by some US college campuses. This sparked a lot of discussion, some good and some, ahem, “sub-optimal”. Maybe we’ll remember 2014 as the year of the rape singularity that...
by Carl Howard | Jun 28, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Feminism and LGBT, History
People have been posting and liking and rainbowifying profiles like there’s no tomorrow. It’s great to feel good when something good happens. And hopefully this will have a positive effect on Australia. But this is also a great time to read more things by LGBT people...
by Carl Howard | Jun 16, 2015 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Ethics, Feminism and LGBT, Mind, Psychology and Consciousness, Race, Sex
[CN: Racist imagery below] … … … … … … … … … … … … What does the image above make you think? While there’s a wide range of possible reactions, I predict the vast majority of people would be simultaneously repulsed by the racist imagery while possibly agreeing...
