I was talking about White Man's Burden as it pertains to an Arab state with a progressive women's movement. Context.

You do know Arabic peoples are by definition Semitic, right? And that not all Jewish people are Semitic? And that there are generally Islamic Semitic ethnicities which are not Arabic?

Where did I say you couldn't criticize? I'm pretty sure I said effective advocacy involved listening to the women of that culture.

I'm sorry, I should have used the term "bigoted." I do think a lot of anti-Islamic sentiment is transferred anti-seministm, however.

Nobody justified child rape to you. You are talking to yourself.

I think you and I are mostly talking about the same thing.

You can judge it, but you should probably be aware that imposing your values on the feminists that are already there (and denying their agency and existence) isn't any better than being a sexist.

You're a little hard of reading.

Thanks. :)

Are you kidding?

Oh, yes.

Not the Evangelical movement, for certain. Mind-your-own-business Calvinism seemed to be flavor of Christianity in vogue for a long time.

If they can bring it to a straight vote, it'll pass.

It's not quite that simple. We've got gerrymandering so bad federal courts had to step in a few years back. It really is not just complacency, it takes more than 50% of the vote in Texas to win 50% of the legislature.

I'm not saying this to bash either, but on everything but same sex marriage and race, I'd put him slightly to the left of Obama.

More funny trivia: Republicans were marginally more in favor of abortion rights when it was overturned, and it was a popular decision. Like, 60%+ for both parties.

Oooo, Scalia is really willing to bend what he says his convictions are in order to uphold or strike down something he doesn't like.

That's actually a good question. I'm going to focus mostly on the Arab/Israel one, because it's the one I have the most concrete examples of.

Do Islamic women have a choice about forced marriages, mutilations, honor killings, and a whole gamut of fucked up things?

Oh, please, I am sure they dislike rape. You're right, that is stupid. Why did you come up with it?