Yes, but since we speak English, we tend to prefer names that come from British or (to a lesser extent) continental European ancestry, because they share the same pronunciation. This is a privilege that people of that ancestry have that others, particularly people of color, do not, and to keep privileging those kinds…
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If my grandfather stole your family heirloom from your grandfather, and I inherited it, and then you knock on my door and ask for it back, I give it back or I'm an asshole (and in most jurisdictions I would not be legally allowed to keep it). I might not have stolen it, but it was stolen! The man who gave it to me…
If I break into your home and steal your shit, the excuse "but you wouldn't have taken care of it!" isn't actually valid. It's not mine. It's yours. You get to decide what to do with it.
Really?? Don't you think saying that about changing a name from Alamuddin to Clooney carries some racist implications? (Another reason I don't like this argument for changing your last name upon marriage — not only is it sexist, it's often racist as well, given that the most pronounceable or highest-class names are…
You have a good reason. However, it's false to say the woman's maiden name is really her father's. He got it from his father, and so on. The name we were given at birth is our name, until we change it.
I think it reinforces the fact that women should be able to do whatever they want without being judged for it.
The female Kurdish fighters have absolutely nothing on your struggle.
i'm hoping someone with particular knowledge can clarify: is the sexism described in the article above really a facet of "kurdish society" (aka, the society to which kurds, a trans-national ethnic group) as a whole, or of kurdistan society, aka, the society of the kurdistan region in iraq? i worry there's some…
Please remove the suicide bombing part of the article, it was reported on salon and a few other sources that she took her life at the last moment just to make sure she wasn't taken alive.
Wow, okay. I hope you don't mind if I respond.
1. I have had years of education and training in mental health. You have never seen me provide therapy to anyone, and you're basing your assumption on a very small amount of information. So forgive me if your opinion holds very little weight with me.
Precisely. Europe hasn't been at war for more than 60 years. And that has a lot to do with the EU. So awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union made total sense and was well-deserved.
better question: WHY are you drying your salad leaves after you wash them? just shake them off and put them in the salad.
NO, THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH FEELING THE URGE TO BELITTLE OTHER WOMEN WHO ARE MORE SUCCESSFUL AT PERFORMING CONVENTIONAL FEMININITY THAN I AM, BECAUSE THEY INTIMIDATE ME, BECAUSE INTERNALIZED MISOGYNY. THIS IS BECAUSE BEING A "COOL GIRL" IS LAME AND I'M BETTER AT DOING THE FEMINISMZ THAN THEY ARE.
Ha! So glad I'm not the only one. It's the kind of ridiculous statement that you would love to believe no one would ever say seriously, except that there are a truly depressing amount of women who say it perfectly seriously. And I would bet you a month's salary that even if the OP was being 100% sarcastic, at least…
Yeah, I think it's a phase a lot of women go through. I was totally a Cool Girl in high school. I thought that because I like football, video games, comics, and prefer whiskey to vodka I was different from the OTHER girls. I thought I could only get along with my select fellow Cool Girl friends as far as women went…
I'll post the names of the books when I get home and can remember the exact titles. I'm reading both of them as background to a piece of historic fiction I'm writing.
Personally, I want to see what $5000 can get me in terms of ice cream.
Because I don't really have a choice, I have to convince myself that its "good parenting." I have to look on the bright side, because obv the way this country fails's to support working mothers is garbage. The alternative would've been leaving the workforce altogether, and I wasn't ready to give up my career.
It's because police do not treat threats over the Internet seriously. A reporter friend at a paper I once worked at got a very creepy, disturbing voicemail one day where a guy said he was going to "wait for her" at her next assignment. The editors called the police. The cops flooded our newsroom and bent over…