Thursday Reads

Nothing like another fraud in the news.

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There is something goddamned sick about a judge or any man who thinks he has a right to a woman's body.  A marriage license does not imply consent whatsoever.  A woman is not a man's sexual property.

Before considering the case in detail, the sitting judge Mr Justice Hayden said: “I cannot think of any more obviously fundamental human right than the right of a man to have sex with his wife ... I think he is entitled to have it properly argued.”

But the law is clear on this: along with being asleep, unconscious, inebriated or detained against one’s will, if someone is “unable to refuse [sex] because of or for a reason related to a mental disorder”, consent is vitiated and the sexual act becomes unlawful. It becomes rape. There could be no more perfect illustration of institutionalised sexism and bias against women than that a judge – someone in a powerful and trusted position – could refer to “sex with his wife” as the “fundamental human right” of a man.

Men aren't entitled to women, not at any time, at any place, not in marriage or out of it.
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I am in favor of year-round DST, but just wait until the parents start bellyaching, as they did 45 years ago when Nixon tried to put through year-round DST, about their kids going to school in the dark.  Mark my words, this is what is going to happen.
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