Abstinence as a government funded program is a total waste of money. It's an ideological and religious-based agenda that has no practical value. The program will increase clandestine masturbations and extra-marital affairs that will go on continuously because religious folk don't believe in getting a divorce. People need to be in touch with their bodies and with each other. Repression and authoritarianism does not teach us that.
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Before the right wing think tank knuckle heads contaminate this post, I would like to make some important comments about his topic. People tend to confuse sexuality with the body itself. Even the terms homosexuality and bisexuality imply reference to a binary sex dichotomy. You either have sex with a member of the opposite sex, same sex, or both. Sex is an act that offers a plenitude of sexual experiences, irrespective of who you are having sex wtih. The politicization of sexuality is largely in response to the heterosexual norm which places the gendered body at the center of the sexual …
Posted to Bisexual Healing
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Unfortunately, Pelosi and the democrats are weak in many other areas and only support the status quo when they cease to speak out on issues of oppression and state violence, as in the case of Israel's apartheid treatment of the Palestinians. Like the rest of the media, I wonder how repressed Inthesetimes will be in regard to Jimmy Carter's new book. I guess they will respond the same way they reponded to the attack in Lebanon. The repression and silence is truly unbeliveable!
Posted to The CBC and Speaker Pelosi
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The Politics of Disposability is an appropriate title for the attack on poor people and the powerless. Binary frameworks that are used to distinguish the privileged from the dispossessed, the powerful from the powerless, when used in the service of domination, always manage to reverse the terms. Poor people, for example, who are abandoned by societies institutions are later described as abandoning themselves. In other words, those who have the least resources are expected to take most of the blame. It is also apt to connect this to the larger political realm. The people who are destroyed by the thousands by …
Posted to Katrina and the Politics of Disposability
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Things can get confusing if the word terrorism continues to be used with no real analysis of what that actually means. As the late Eqbal Ahmad explained, terrorism is mostly used to arouse emotions: "Terrorism is a threat to Western civilization." Terrorism is always applied to someone else but is never applied self critically. Despite the barbarous crimes committed in our name - the United States - we never commit terrorism. "We spread democracy." Ahmad identifies five forms of terrorism: State Terrorism, Religious Terrorism, Criminal Terrorism, Pathological Terrorism, and Political Terrorism. As the author of this article indicates, political terrorism evolves …
Posted to Examining Irans ties to Hezbollah
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