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By ebotella • 15 years ago

Misogyny is acceptable, Homosexuality is Not

Since 1994, at least 12,000 US servicemen, and more specifically 60 Arabic translators working for the military, have been dismissed from the as a result of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The case of study of West Point grad Dan Choi, five-year Army veteran who received his discharge letter reading “you admitted publicly that you are a homosexual which constitutes homosexual conduct,” has drawn a lot of attention from the mainstream press in the past week, but another telling tale from a few years back is Stephen Davis, former petty officer second class in the navy.
Like Choi, Davis was an Arabic translator; President Bush invested $100,000 in what he called the Strategic Language Initiative specifically to address the ...

Since 1994, at least 12,000 US servicemen, and more specifically 60 Arabic translators working for the military, have been dismissed from the as a result of “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy.
The case of study of ...
By ebotella • 15 years ago

Are blowjobs “anti-feminist?”

A young man I know was on the feministing.com blog and by clicking through a series of links, he apparently came across an article on this theme, and then, asked me what I thought.
I read some of the literature and was shocked that nobody was really mentioning what I thought was perhaps the core issue: blowjobs are not inherently anti-feminist, but the fact that oral sex is so infrequently reciprocated in heterosexual relationships probably is.
There is a certain generation of people, I would venture to say perhaps 25 and younger (although that boundary is fuzzy) for whom fellatio is not and has not been especially taboo: the generation of people about whom TIME and Newsweek articles are written, ...

A young man I know was on the feministing.com blog and by clicking through a series of links, he apparently came across an article on this theme, and then, asked me what I thought.
I read some ...