Statism Promotes Violence Against Women

As I scrolled through my Facebook news feed, I discovered the following artwork here, being shared by the page, “The Recovering Statist,” and originally posted it to my own wall, along with commentary…

“Remember Billy: hitting girls is wrong… unless you’re wearing a badge & a magic suit. Then, it’s totally okay.”

My Commentary: Statism is so “progressive,” promoting equal rights of the sexes!

Brown University Will Begin Stocking Free Feminine Hygiene Products in Both Men’s and Women’s Bathrooms on Campus

The following correspondence originally took place upon my Facebook wall…

Feminine hygiene products

Feminine hygiene products

Rayn: …

Brown University Providing Tampons in Men’s Bathrooms Because “Both Sexes Menstruate”:
http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2016/09/08/brown-university-provide-tampons-mens-bathrooms/

Tammy S.: I’m confused, why is this a thing?

Discussion on Medically Tyranny Behind Gender Reassignment of Intersex Infants

The following correspondence originally took place upon onto my Facebook wall…

Female (XX, or XXX), Male (XY), and Intersex (XXY)

Female (XX, or XXX), Male (XY), and Intersex (XXY)

Rayn: Check it out, Karl! Just now, while scrolling my timeline, I noticed a FB friend of mine sharing this article, and Rosalind Franklin is the very first researcher mentioned – just like we were talking about the other day! Synchronicity! 🙂

6 Women Scientists Who Were Snubbed Due to Sexism:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130519-women-scientists-overlooked-dna-history-science/

Siobhán L.: Nice article!

Siobhán L.: Also – as you might know – Nettie Stevens has probably played a large role in my own life, in which if they never figured out chromosomal sex – I might be in a very different situation, (I am XXY)

Rayn: Wow! More synchronicity! I was literally JUST talking about the topic of intersex with my husband only a little while after making this post. The reason why is because I had also talked about it with a friend yesterday afternoon, during an interview that she asked to conduct on me regarding the topic of “Diversity and Oppression” for a master’s level course she is currently taking at Rutger’s. At that time, before the interview started, while we we warming up with a discussion on unrealized forms of bias and discrimination, I eventually brought up intersex individuals, and, at one point, even mentioned how this group makes up at least 1% of the population – a figure she found to be surprising. So, right after making the post above, I remembered that portion of my pre-interview discussion, and finally decided to look up the figures again, to know for sure. After I was done, I showed my husband, who was also present during my interview, and then, I once again began railing against the common and accepted practice of surgical intervention shortly after birth for those individuals who express any significant form of having both male and genitalia (just as I had done the first time I looked into intersex about a year ago). I cannot help but see it as nothing more than an arrogant and misguided attempt to “medically” force the false dichotomy of a two-gender society.

Siobhán L.: Agreed – speaking about specifically XXY individuals – about 1/3rd of us are fine with being ID’d as male, about 1/3rd as female (I fall into this group) – but about 1/3rd ID as both, a 3rd gender, or genderqueer. I think this is fairly standard across other types of IS too – but I don’t know as much about them from experience.

Siobhán L.: I also fall into a weird other category of being an XXY individual who’s mother took a synthetic estrogen while pregnant with me – causing more teratogenic effects of having only partially formed male parts, and partially formed female parts (I think it’s probably about 80% male, 20% female – roughly)

Rayn: No doubt, Siobhán. Thank you for your valuable input! I really appreciate it! 🙂

State of Israel Continues to Engage in Politics of Discrimination

I originally posted the following information and commentary onto my Facebook wall…

"Meeting of university heads, 2008: One woman, Prof. Rivka Carmi, third from right, no Arabs."

“Meeting of university heads, 2008: One woman, Prof. Rivka Carmi, third from right, no Arabs.”

Israel’s Politics of Discrimination:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israel-s-politics-of-discrimination-1.426528

(Eva Illouz) Discrimination is the sophisticated, less blunt, distant cousin of racism. It has the same effects as racism − ranking people by birth − without, necessarily, the same intentions, which is why discrimination is mostly and most often an invisible mechanism. This is also the reason why some legal provisions suggest evaluating discrimination on the basis of facts. But facts alone do not scrutinize the mindset of people working in organizations. If, for example, women represent 50 percent of the population, Arabs and Mizrahim constitute 60 percent of the population and if all three groups have almost never been represented among the rectors, presidents and deans, or been recipients of scientific awards of Israeli universities, we need not enter the minds of the people who make these decisions to suspect discrimination. The proof is in the famous pudding.

(Read entire article here…)

My Commentary: Discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, etc… IS PURE FALLACY! Why do some countries get a free pass to engage in this disgusting behavior, while others are outright condemned? :sigh: Critical thinking is at an all-time low in this world.