... You know, I think Dan Ust's fatwa on the matter was pretty silly, but insisting that libertarianism, properly understood, might call for categorical

... Oh, I know a reasonable amount of Walter's other work, and my considered attitude towards him is not that he should drown himself. I just like to make

... Well, the old standard needs a new verse. Melody's here: All together now... o/~ Dr. Block he minds the

... In environments where I've worked with kids (as a teacher) and got a pretty heavy dose of orientation on anti-bullying policies from my employers, the

... It's not all that uncommon for queer or trans or "gender-deviant" kids to get this from at least some teachers at at least some point in their school

... Well, let's say that you were sent to Dachau for 5 years for being a Jew. This was, of course, a perfectly "legal" thing for the German government to do,

... Alternatively, you could just stop being an inerrantist about the scriptures, either in part or in whole. The fundamentalist movement to one side, there

... I daren't say, but I am pretty sure that the answer is not "engage in obviously ridiculous hermeneutics in order to invent excuses that have nothing to do

QueerCoup: "This analysis is attempting to be on the right track, but it misses the mark greatly." Maybe so. But the analysis in the article is an attempt to interpret somebody else's analysis -- that is, Susan Brownmiller's discussion of "police blotter" stranger rape in Chapter 6 of Against Our Will (published in 1975). Do you think that the mark-missing is in Brownmiller's analysis (i.e., that she got it wrong about rape)? Or in my attempt to make sense of Brownmiller's analysis (i.e., that I got it wrong about Brownmiller's meaning)? Or both? Something else? QueerCoup: "They're reinforcing the stereotype of the back ally rape. This pushes accountablilty for the invisible fist onto these shadowy figures and away from every husband, father, boyfriend, aquaintance, date who has furthered patriarchy ..." Again, maybe, but what do you make of the long paragraph near the end that begins "I've been talking about 'stranger rape' all this time because that's what Brownmiller's theory is about, and Brownmiller's theory is a good case study in the point I'm trying to make. But similar remarks, with different but importantly related consequences, could be made for forms of violence against women which feminist activists and researchers have, over the past 30 years, demonstrated to be even more prevalent and even harder to escape than the threat of stranger rape -- date rape, rape in marriage, battery, and so on....", or the paragraph in an early comment which begins "It's a good thing, because in point of fact I don't even agree entirely with Brownmiller's theory. I do agree entirely with something in the neighborhood..."?

QueerCoup: "This analysis is attempting to be on the right track, but it misses the mark greatly." Maybe so. But the analysis in the article is an attempt to interpret somebody else's analysis -- that is, Susan Brownmiller's discussion of "police blotter" stranger rape in Chapter 6 of Against Our Will (published in 1975). Do you think that the mark-missing is in Brownmiller's analysis (i.e., that she got it wrong about rape)? Or in my attempt to make sense of Brownmiller's analysis (i.e., that I got it wrong about Brownmiller's meaning)? Or both? Something else? QueerCoup: "They're reinforcing the stereotype of the back ally rape. This pushes accountablilty for the invisible fist onto these shadowy figures and away from every husband, father, boyfriend, aquaintance, date who has furthered patriarchy ..." Again, maybe, but what do you make of the long paragraph near the end that begins "I've been talking about 'stranger rape' all this time because that's what Brownmiller's theory is about, and Brownmiller's theory is a good case study in the point I'm trying to make. But similar remarks, with different but importantly related consequences, could be made for forms of violence against women which feminist activists and researchers have, over the past 30 years, demonstrated to be even more prevalent and even harder to escape than the threat of stranger rape -- date rape, rape in marriage, battery, and so on....", or the paragraph in an early comment which begins "It's a good thing, because in point of fact I don't even agree entirely with Brownmiller's theory. I do agree entirely with something in the neighborhood..."?