Ah. Cool. Also that was written for the Texas Tribune and reprinted by the NY Times. Want me to link you to the one the Alaska paper’s ran based on the same metric, just with Native American/Alaska Native added to the “ethnicity” (really race) list? Now, it’s based on census tracts rather than county lines, but you…

Are you saying blackface is only an issue because it’s often used to play to stereotypes? Because that seems like the only similarity you’ve brought up.

Also I just can’t find it insulting that someone in Massachusetts wanted to wear a colander in their license photo. Why are you insulted?
Is it because you assume they…

My point was simply that someone can really support free speech and also not support speech they find disgusting and objectionable.
This is contrary to the claim you made.

I’m not seeing any NY Times articles on the first two pages of the google results for that query, both with and without quotes. Can you just link it directly? (Also I’m seeing claims for Queens, Huston and places in Alaska).

Huh. You want to smack her religious head covering off her head?
And she’s the one promoting anti-religious sentiment?
Perhaps you should take a long look in the mirror. These laws aren’t just to protect your friends. They also exist to protect the exercise of religions you consider “wacky” or “smug”.
That’s how…

How is wearing a colander similar to blackface? Does it have a long history of being used to denigrate religious groups? If so, which ones?

Is she being smug? Or is she fighting to combat discrimination against minority religions?
I really think it’s the later. People who wear religious head coverings will have an easier time getting the RMV (or whatever it is) to take their picture with them on now that more of it’s employees know they have to allow *all*…

I’m so glad to know that finding threats of violence disgusting and objectionable means I don’t really support free speech. Why don’t you come join me over here with the majority of people in this country who understand that placing limits on free speech when there is a public interest in doing so, is in the best…

They want to believe that cops are doing their job and are protecting them from the things they should be. They want to believe their trust in authority is well placed.
It’s pretty easy to comprehend.

If I might propose an alternative, maybe we can make a woman’s *pleasure* a focus of sex, but not myopically focus on orgasm. I’ve found this attitude worked fairly well for me and one of my former partners who had trouble orgasming while on antidepressants.

That being said, I sometimes wish this was more of a two-way…

Exactly! People love to complain about our “two party” system, but the GOP is really a coalition of what would be probably 3 or more parties in parliamentary systems. The same thing could probably be said about the Democratic party but I’m not as sure where the lines would be drawn there.

I would agree with you if that had been my experience. But heck, at the last take back the night I went to, I think at least a third of the people who spoke up as victims were men, one of the organizers/leaders was a man who had been a victim. They weren’t invisible as victims of sexual abuse.
You might have a stronger…

I’ve never met a feminist of whom I would say they “just can’t see men as legitimate victims...”

Who are you referring to? Please be as specific as possible.

Have you ever seen a protest that contained disclaimers?
I haven’t.
Perhaps you can provide some examples of protests doing it well?

Why didn’t she include the parts where it says “$75” (two different times I might add... after it says P/T F/T) or the numeral 3 in the translation?
It looks to me like this isn’t a full translation of the add, and may well be a mistranslation. (I can’t judge accuracy, but I know a translation should be telling me…

You do realize that regulation has traditionally/always been used to criminalize the most vulnerable and most marginalized sex workers, right? Look at Nevada. The whole legalized/regulated brothel model is rampant with oppression. It mostly benefits people who own the very hard to get brothel licences. The people…

I know women who were raped because prostitution is illegal.

Except the argument that certain sex workers are privileged and therefore shouldn’t’ get to speak is often lobbed indiscriminately. Here’s someone who was a minor sex trafficking victim who was basically told her opinion didn’t matter because she was “a highly educated leftist”:

Bullshit. The vast majority of women in the sex trade are *currently* acting mostly by choice. However most of them were coerced earlier in their careers. I personally know someone who was trafficked as a minor and then did survival sex work before making it a voluntary career as an adult. Guess how many more…

It would decrease the rape of sex workers because they could credibly threaten their attackers with legal consequences, and take more actions to protect themselves from probable bad situations. (Hiring security for sex work is illegal in my jurisdiction, so is paying for someone else to screen a client, so is paying…