My Illinois home town was the first city in the US to send a company of volunteers for the Union army, literally a day or two after Ft Sumter. I still see dumbasses flying rebel flags. I like to tell them that hating Confederate scum is just heritage, not hate.

It’s a rough and rural racism. And horribly open and accepted. I am always shocked by the people who say racist things to me, bc all us whites are in on the joke, and then get offended bc I don’t appreciate their comments, which were not meant to be offensive, of course, but just a simple statement of facts.

“I respect the decision of the Illinois Republican Party and understand their concerns about my safety and that of the entire Illinois delegation.”

Take the fundamentalism away, you will still have misogyny.

Yes, a study from Middle East Quarterly, found on Middle East Forum, a website about American interests in the ME is the accurate impartial source we all need.

It is really very minimally about religion. I know many, many people who are barely religious and still ascribe to traditional gender roles. Fundamental religions are the vehicles, but misogyny is the root of it all. Fundamentalism is obviously a huge part of the problem and a very obvious scapegoat, but you don’t…

I think what you mean to say is, we hear about it far more amongst Muslims than any other religion, because in the eyes of the west honour killings are a muslim issue. When was the last time, if ever, you heard about a Hindu woman who was killed for marrying outside her caste? Just because you don’t hear about it…

Hindu and Sikh followers have been known to kill female relatives for marrying outside of their caste.

Up to 1991 it was legal to honor kill your wife in heavily Christian Brazil. The bible even condones killing a woman for adultery.

The key seems to not be a specific religion but a belief that women are family property.

Fundamentalist Christians want to pass laws (and are passing laws) in our country making abortion illegal (and thus, deadly to women who will still seek them out), making LGBTQ behavior illegal (increasing suicides), pulling science out of our schools (endangering our environment and health, and killing people) and a…

Sure, it’s a rationalization for them. But what’s the excuse for women’s lovers/ex-husbands/etc stalking and murdering us here by the thousands every year? What’s the excuse for congress legislating our bodies and economic futures? What’s the excuse for letting the pandemic of rape in this country go completely…

Honor killings are a cultural issue found throughout South Asia, even amongst non-muslim cultures in India. It’s too easy to just blame this on Islam.

MISOGYNY is poison and it kills women by the thousands every day. Take the fundamentalism away, you will still have misogyny. It finds a different container (viz Atheist bros). MISOGYNY is everywhere in every belief and non-belief system. It’s bigger than fundamentalism by far. I’ll die fighting this war and it won’t…

I can’t - off the top of my head - but the Catholic Church and their decades long cover up of institutional child abuse can't really thrown stones.

“Thought she was being overdramatic.”

You mean, other than abortion clinic bombings, church shootings, forcing gay kids into conversion therapy that ends in suicides, and countless women forced to carry pregnancies that sometimes end in death to the mother? And before you tell me those aren’t “honor killings,” yes they are. All of these Fundamentalist…

Brave and noble and martyred.

I saw it this morning! The bad NYC geography irked me, but my biggest issue was I felt that they asked the four women to hold back. Definitely worth seeing if you’re a Fieg fan.

Me too. I also hope Dani with an “i” realizes that implants sag, too. And that ain’t pretty either.

She’s not any different from creeps taking upskirt pictures of women who are not aware that they are being photographed.

This was not a “mistake.” She deliberately engaged in this. It took multiple steps. Multiple indecent and cruel and deliberate actions.