First you say all she had to do is turn around and walk out; when someone points out that she was held against her will your response is to basically shrug it off and continue to blame her? Stay classy.

...yet they did it anyway, which is why they should lose in court.

Apparently not. She was held against her will, taken to an exam room, and forced to show her genitals to a guard.

So she gets the benefit of the doubt from you despite slacking off in the first place, skipping town without warning in the second place, and then not completing because she was sick? That makes no sense. Look, people aren't mocking that she got sick, they are mocking that she's been jerking everyone around whenever…

It happens because some staff at prisons think that even the visitors should be treated as non human pieces of garbage. I've never had something so terrible happen as this poor woman but I've been thoroughly disrespected and sneered at by guards while visiting my relative in a state prison. Fuck these officers and I…

What really really extra terrifies me about this story is that this was the treatment given to a visitor. If this kind of inhuman, misogynist fuckery was allowed with a visitor I can't even begin to fathom the shit that some of the female prisoners go through on a daily basis, above and beyond serving time.

Normally when someone details you until you show them your vagina, it is kidnapping and sexual assault.

She has been doing this for years and she never learns. There is always an excuse about why she missed court or why she can't complete her community service. Going on vacation and partying are more important to her. I would say that the judge needs to just put her in jail, but they have a few times and she always…

You know what pisses me off? That for oblivious white dudes like Graham, rape is a "definitional" or "intellectual" issue because they can never ever comprehend the fact that for women, rape is a visceral embodied issue and almost every day of our lives, we have to compute a million different ways to protect…

Yeah, and I get that. And I definitely do think that some people will think twice about where their clothes are coming from if they know that there are women working in these conditions to produce them. *ahem* But like you said, it still puts the privileged at the centre of the story. It still makes their experiences…

I'm in two minds about this. On the one hand, it's great that someone is shining a light on the conditions these women have to work in. On the other, does it have to be done in this voyeuristic, poverty tourism way? Why couldn't we just do a documentary about the women of Cambodia? Why do we need the hook of pretty…

If abortion is "murder," then why should there be any exceptions at all? And if aborting a pregnancy conceived in rape is morally acceptable, but aborting one conceived in love is not, isn't childbirth just physical punishment for a woman experiencing sexual pleasure?

No, you're quite right. In fact, when ether was introduced to ease childbirth (Queen Victoria used it) many theologians objected because women are supposed to suffer and pain relief goes against god's plan.

I see your point. Ladies tend to take such a personal view of their own lives. They need men to provide an uncaring, objective point of view.

Isn't there an old church doctrine that childbirth pain is punishment for original sin? So Eve eats the apple, becomes aware of sex, and all women forever suffer because of it. It's not that different.

This is why we should have been more cautious about letting ladies become legislators.

"isn't childbirth just physical punishment for a woman experiencing sexual pleasure?"

Yeah, it was such a desirable toy until you saw one in action. It was worse when the tape player inevitably started to wind slower, and Ruxpin spoke in Satan's voice.

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