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Comment on It is time for the Majority to have a voice, Gender wars rage on! by Ayesha Lakhani

Ayesha Lakhani — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 10:38:37 +0000

Poverty has a woman’s face. Global prosperity and peace will only be achieved once the entire world’s people are empowered to order their own lives and provide for themselves and their families. Societies where women are more equal stand a much greater chance of achieving the Millennium Goals by 2015. Every single Goal is directly related to women’s rights, and societies were women are not afforded equal rights as men can never achieve development in a sustainable manner.
I think its high time we all individually or collectively Stand Up and Take some action
Regarding this.

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Comment on It is time for the Majority to have a voice, Gender wars rage on! by talkwithme2

talkwithme2 — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:52:54 +0000

I truly must say that it amazes me to the degree of ignorance we have with regards to the history of women in this country. We as a nation continue to subjugate women, oppress them and remove their strength as men divide and conquer in the name of “sex” and we allow it when that word in itself should be removed and relegated as barbaric. It is time to only reference the phrase “gender” as the word “sex” indeed is referencing an “action”

There are many steps that we need to take to elevate women and remove this veil of fear that so many women have of those of us that have the where with-all to speak up. W.E.B. DuBois, a Harvard Graduate and the founder of the NAACP was originally embracing the women’s movement…I stay away from feminist, because unfortunately that equally segregates women and I embrace the women’s movement as it is all inclusive.. Anyway, I digress…DuBois embraced the women’s movement and believed in equal rights for all people. He distanced himself during the time of the Niagra Movement because women were segregating themselves. Black against white, rich against poor, educated against those who chose to stay at home…and so on. The biggest problem is that it has not changed. Women need to unite and remove this unfortunate demise globally against women. We can send a message to the world that we will no longer tolerate the obliteration of women’s dignity. Maybe our greatest global contender, will stop killing girl babies, do we see anyone standing up for that with as we see with Tibet? I know I got a little off topic, but it is all relative in the end.

Thank you for taking the time to read and respond. It is time to put a strong, able, ready, prepared, independent thinking, eloquent, balanced person into the white house.

Comment on It is time for the Majority to have a voice, Gender wars rage on! by 1dumblonde

1dumblonde — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 16:32:17 +0000

Hillary Clinton is a feminist who has done a lot for women and children, not as an afterthought but as a real activist. I am so glad to see your blog! You know Obama’s not a feminist in any real sense of the word if he can refer to children born out of wedlock as “punishment.” And I watched the YouTube video posted on feministphilosophers that just brought home how much the media has used sexist language to describe Clinton.

I like her more and more, as my dislike for Obama grows. When I pointed out that he was part of a law school culture at Harvard that culminated (admittedly the year after he graduated) in the posthumous lynching of a murdered feminist scholar by the Law Review, I was told that was unfair to hold him accountable for what others did. He helped pick the people who succeeded him on law review. He sent out the invitations! He didn’t do it, but he was part of that culture of misogyny.

We need a feminist president and Hillary should be the candidate.

Comment on Virtual Classroom? Sign ME up! by Helen

Helen — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:46:17 +0000

What do you mean when talking: “The biorhythms of our students”?
Biorhythms were researched and explained many years ago …
http://www.whitestranger.com/introduction.htm

thanks!

Helen! Yes, you are correct there has been research up the wazoo! Little to none of it is in place. We fail our children miserably by expecting them to be little adults and to march along just as the office 9-5ers of post WWll did. We send them to school in some places before the sun even rises, (Indianapolis for instance) and then expect them to sit in rows, and do desk work like little robots all day long. Their bio rhythms are not met!

Comment on “The Notebook”, Old School Love and Real Love, does it exist? by ilovemylife

ilovemylife — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 02:23:33 +0000

I so love this movie.

Comment on Juvenile Crime — When should age make a difference in sentencing? by lisakenney

lisakenney — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:42:55 +0000

These are truly tragic stories and I cannot express the sadness I feel for these victims and families. I think your question about age has a two part answer. Yes, I think the age of a criminal should always be a consideration when our society considers how to punish and treat. Regardless of what the crime is, it is simply true that human beings don’t physiologically develop the capability to fully think through the consequences of their actions or to exercise mature decision making under certain circumstances. I think we have to absolutely consider each case individually to assess whether or not the juvenile is seriously disturbed and probably will always pose a threat to society (as in the first case you described), or if a teenager who may not have been brought up under the best circumstances has made a terrible decision or error in judgment based on peer pressure (there are many juveniles who were convicted of felony murder and are serving LWOP because they may have been in a car at the time one of the others in the car shot out out the window and killed someone, for example). There are still other tragic cases of juveniles who have killed parents who’d imposed a lifetime of violent and sexual abuse on them. Should all of these juveniles be punished? Of course they should. Should they be considered worthy of rehabilitation and redemption? I think many of them should and some of them are not capable of it. The problem is that juveniles convicted of violent crimes are sent to adult prisons. Those who are first time violent offenders, who did not commit premeditated heinous crimes are then prey to violent adult criminals. They are forced to adapt to prisoner mentality and either become more violent inside to defend themselves, or they will be prey to violent and sexual predators. I don’t believe juveniles should be incarcerated in adult prisons and I don’t believe they should receive life sentences without the possibility of parole — which is not to say that some shouldn’t be imprisoned for life, but taking the possibility away from those who are absolutely capable of remorse and rehabilitation seems inhumane to me. We are the only country in the world that locks juveniles up in prison to die — we currently have over 2,380 while the rest of the world has 12. The cases you have cited are truly tragic and reflect those who should never have been released. Sadly, there are many, many more men and women who made bad decisions and who would truly not pose a threat to us if they were given another chance. None of us are who we were at 15 or 16 years old. For those serving LWOP, we’ll never have the chance to find out what they could have become if we don’t rethink how we view our juvenile offenders.

Thank you for this very thoughtful post.