This person has trauma related to her experiences and this is how it manifests. I’m so sorry you find women looking out for other women “creepy.” You can easily tell if the person you try to converse with is interested or not. It’s not fucking rocket science.

Jesus Fuck. This is your takeaway? You’re going out of your way to be useless?

I feel you. Why is it that we get harassed and assaulted and then we feel like the guilty party?

I think it’s going to get my vote all the way through!

It most certainly IS illegal. A strong case could be made for treason. At this point, I don’t think the question we should be asking is if Trump & Co. did anything wrong. That’s pretty much in a given. The real question is what can be done about it. I am not so sure that impeachment and the 25th Amendment really can…

It’s illegal to act as the agent of a foreign power to influence elections unless you declare yourself to be one. Feds are going to have to decide whether to start popping people under FARA pretty soon.

Time to circle the wagons around the leader of the free world: Angela Merkel

But Zionism isn’t a religion—it’s a geo-political construct. I think the debate changes if you conflate that with religion and assume Zionists to equal people who are Jewish. I certainly hope anything I’ve written does not do that. No individual should be excluded due to belief or ethnicity or any other attribute.…

Many people view Zionism as a form of bigotry.

The Debbie Reynolds comment is heartbreaking. I just gave birth to my daughter and the thought of losing her would destroy me. I can imagine how lost Debbie felt.

I do agree with you, and I am hearing people’s comments about Linda Sarsour, who I don’t know tons about but she sounds divisive. But, we do also have to draw the line at inclusion when it excludes others (especially those on the wrong end of political/social power differentials). I read a lot about the exclusion of…

Just wanted to say I’m really appreciating your comments on this and totally agree.   

Very true. The same way someone criticizing Israeli policy shouldn’t be labeled an anti-semite, we can’t let anti-semites use it as cover. Bigots love being given cover and exploit it endlessly.

That is reasonable. It’s hard to separate what I know about Emily as a person and what I know is shorthand for her vs. reading her piece completely objectively.

Yeah, but in that piece she’s so dismissive of the possibility of a two-state solution and just throws it in there as a foil against the rest of her arguments. I see that she’s a friend of yours and you may have a more nuanced view of her beliefs and opinions, but her piece didn’t express that nuance. If she wanted to…

It is a great movement. And Emily Shire most definitely identifies as a feminist.
I just wish the major feminist movement doesn’t fall into the same trappings that causes often do when they gain traction and a large following.

Hardline Zionism is about that, yes. But that’s like saying that radical Christians speak for all Christiants. Every groun has an extremist sect that needs to be reigned in.

Challenge! The worst book ever written is “A Separate Peace”

I hear you, but how can you align that with policies that expressly subjugate others? I would equally say that you can’t be in favor of ISIS, Manifest Destiny or the Crusades and be a feminist. Zionism is different from being religiously or ethnically Jewish, I think.

p51d007 at 4:45pm reminds us of simpler times