Meh. They can go fuck themselves after their surviving comrades raped their way across Europe.

sorry for the completely charged question I’m going to ask, but I NEED to understand this. What is so terrible about a ban on 20 week abortion? (with exception of cases that involve the life of the mother). Is 20 weeks not enough time to decide if you want to have the baby or not?

I have to agree. Let them come, let them speak, and hope the event is sparsely attended, perhaps by having a competing event on campus or nearby. If these right-wing crybabies don’t get their way, they scream about how they’re being persecuted.

What we truly need to do is to let these people speak, as unpleasant as it is, but there’s no law that compels us to stick around and listen to them. The people who really want to see them speak are not going to change their minds. Us blocking them just fuels their outrage, their victim complex, and adds legitimacy to…

Actually they can’t since they’re a public university.

I swear that if that happens I will sit through the movie, probably enjoy it, and not really complain all that much!

That’s a lot of writing about a movie that isn’t the subject of the article.

Rey the OP Mary Sue (she was stronger than both Luke and Anakin the supposed “saviours” of the force)

Nowhere did this article even bring up circumcision. Why is it so hard to stay on topic when it’s about an atrocity that’s done to women’s sexual organs? Why is it always, “We must discuss the penis first!”

Yes, but there’s a time and a place to talk about nonconsentual circumcision of the penis. Generally speaking, it’s not when talking about forced clitorectomies, since that’s a specific problem that has proven pernicious and needs to be stamped out.

“We cannot dismiss the agency of these women in their compliance with their cultural practices.”

Wow. A woman doctor... in the US... in 2017.

I am not surprised in the least that this doctor is a woman. FGM is often insisted upon by the women who have themselves endured it. I’m no fan of Ayaan Hirsi but she is clear that her father opposed the procedure, and her grandmother secreted her away from the home to undergo it. As well as another case profiled on…

Quite. It’s why it’s very important that we retire calling genital mutilation “female circumcision”; the life-changing results simply aren’t comparable.

Yep. Well, honestly, it needs to be remember that it isn’t the same thing at all. What’s removed in FGM is not equivalent removing the foreskin. It’s equivalent to emasculation — removal of all or at least part of the glans.

I just read about this story in the Washington Post, and whaddya know, the comment section is full of idiot menz shouting “WHY DOES THIS ONLY GET ATTENTION WHEN IT’S GIRLS? WHAT ABOUT THE FORESKIN?”

I remember a quote describing the New England states, that there wasn’t a workman of average ability who didn’t have some notion or idea of an invention that would improve his craft or make him rich. In contrast in the South you have a labor market dominated by slaves whose primary motivation was to avoid being…

“In fact, many historians and economists say slavery is the reason the United States was able to grow into a world power so incredibly fast. For two hundred years slaves provided free labor for a major segment of the economy, allowing increased production with negligible financial drain on the producers. This was a…

US Constitution, article 1, section 9: “The privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases of Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.”