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    "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?

    Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube

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    Image of maude_flanders maude_flanders
    09/30/09

    In reply to "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
    I'm curious. How can eliminate rape (especially in war) if we can't eliminate the rape that occurs in stable places (more stable than war zones or politically charged places, anyway)? Unless she's referring to enforcing rape as a crime against humanity...how could the U.N. do THAT when it's so prevalent and there'd be so many defendants?

    Not that rape shouldn't be treated as a serious crime, especially in the war zone, where the incidence is even more frequent than usual. But is the goal of eliminating RAPE in war any more likely than eliminating militarized conflict itself?
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    09/30/09

    In reply to "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
    I'm reading "Justice on the Grass" by Dina Temple-Raston about the Rawandan war crimes trial (it's excellent, I recommend it) I just finished a chapter entitled "The Rape Babies Arrived in the Spring." It breaks my heart.

    I always think after each terrible attrocity, people will realize how much women are affected, particularly when rape is used as a weapon. I am really glad Secretary Clinton is making this a priority.
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    09/30/09

    @eadubbs: Oooh. Is it about the international tribunals or the Gacaca courts? We screened "My Neighbor My Killer" at my place of employment recently and it was so interesting so I'm trying to read up more on Rwanda: its past and how it has moved on since the genocide.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
    until people stop seeing women as "the weaker/fairer sex," property, inherent victims, and start seeing them as human beings due basic dignities there will be no safe place for womankind anywhere. period.
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    09/30/09

    In reply to "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
    "There are people who say, 'Well, women's issues is an important issue, but it doesn't rank up there with the Middle East or Iran's nuclear threat or Afghanistan and Pakistan.' I couldn't disagree more."

    Thank you, Secretary Clinton for stating that so unequivocally.
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    Image of JerseyGrrrl JerseyGrrrl
    09/30/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Few things make me as angry as the suggestion that the world's ills be somehow ranked, and that those which fall lower on some man's list be put off until those ranking higher are addressed first. As if it would be possible to address with finality something as multi-faceted and vague as "the Middle East." Would someone like to tell that young woman in the camp that until there's peace in Gaza, she'll just have to keep facing rape??
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    09/30/09

    @JerseyGrrrl: And also, if we, as a nation want to call ourselves members of the U.N. than we need to actually uphold the values it stands for (World Peace, human rights) and not just when it's convenient for us to do so.
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    09/30/09

    @youarewhatyoulove: It's true. Our government has shown, now as in the past, that it's willing to mortgage global women's rights in order to keep a dialogue with other nations. I understand the rationalization such as it is, but I hate it nonetheless.
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    10/01/09

    @curiousgeorgiana: Security analysts (well, at least, the ones who know which way the wind is blowing) are paying more and more attention to "women's security" precisely because it is such an indicator of stability in a society. Safe women mean stable families, stable communities. And thank god we've got Hilary to say these things for us.
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    Image of nerdycellist nerdycellist
    09/30/09

    In reply to "No Place For Us Here": How To Solve Issues Of Sexual Violence In "Safe" Zones?
    Not to be reactionary, but how about we ban men from these areas? This isn't a girl-on-girl crime wave we're seeing.
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    09/30/09

    @nerdycellist: We'd then be splitting up families. Yes, it might be safer for men and women to be separated, but I'd then worry about disparities between their resources.
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    09/30/09

    @inabook: Fair enough. But what I'm seeing in this article is that people working for these camps are doing the raping. So how about men don't get to work at these places? It's a shame that a couple of bad apples spoils the whole barrel, so to speak, but that's how it is.
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    Image of BeckySharper BeckySharper
    09/30/09

    @nerdycellist: What about their husbands and sons?
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    Image of LaComtesse LaComtesse
    09/30/09

    @nerdycellist: The Janjaweed aren't JUST targetting women. Darfuri men need help, too.
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    05/07/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    "Raison Allah Iceman" - Ben & Jerry's worst selling flavor of ice cream.
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    05/06/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube
    Mia Farrow was one of the first and the few to call the Beijing Olympics what it was; a disgrace equal to Hitler's Olympics. I have so much admiration for her because the genocide is STILL happening, even though some have moved on to the next trendy topic. The wholesale rape of women continues, the ethnic cleansing continues and China's support of genocide continues while the world does nothing. Since it takes a movie star to get people to give a damn about anything these days, I say god bless Mia Farrow.
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    05/06/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube
    Surely creating awareness of David Blaine is a negative.
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    Image of ginger rant ginger rant
    05/06/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube
    Me, I never belittle celebrities for drawing attention to political causes. Wouldn't we all be harshing on them if they had all that fame and attention and yet DIDN'T speak out on the issues?
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    Image of Santos L Halper Santos L Halper
    05/06/09

    In reply to Mia Farrow's Hunger Strike Has Not Gone Viral On YouTube
    I think Mia's gotten her advice-giving titles confused. It's physician, not magician, Mia.
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    Image of lisas lisas
    05/06/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    I'm not the only person who thought that Withnail and I is about a couple of gay dudes, am I? I mean, yes they're friends too, but it's not an "eccentric friendship" story.
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    Image of SW-2 SW-2
    05/06/09

    @lisas: I got that vibe too, but the script made it pretty clear that they were just too strung out on multitudes of drugs to be able to deal much with sexuality. Also, they had the flaming gay uncle to offset them. However, I'm not completely disagreeing with you.
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    05/06/09

    @SW-2: I figured that the uncle was the final giveaway about what was really going on. Not a lot of sex it's true, but most definitely a love story.
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    Image of tscheese tscheese
    05/06/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    I'm getting a little tired of the Carrie Prejean lambasting, and here's why: Not that I'm ever sorry to see an idiot get their comeuppance, but because it's not going to change any minds.


    There exist bigots who want to refuse grown-ass adults the right to love each other and have the same legal rights as opposite marriage. Those bigots aren't going to look at Prejean and say, "Man, she talks like one of us, but she happens to be a complete idiot. I better change my mind on this whole bigotry thing!" People who have decided to discriminate in the name of their ever-precious morally-pure "opposite marriage" are just going to listen to slightly more intelligent bigots, insofar as they exist.


    Those of us who support gay marriage can revel in the schadenfreude, sure, but at what point is it just preaching to the choir? Yes, she's an idiot, but will the Prejean coverage change any minds?

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    05/06/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    Ah, Kiefer, who hasn't gotten too drunk and then accidentally-on-purpose head-butted a famous designer at a ball because they may or may not have knocked over that lady who used to let nothing come between her and her Calvins? Jeesh, that's what we call Saturday around these parts.
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    05/06/09

    @AbbyNormal: Braincrazy FemiZombie: I have head-butted Diane Von Furstenberg on three non-consecutive occasions.
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    05/06/09

    @hatepaperdoll: I took on Karl Lagerfeld in a slap fight once.
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    05/06/09

    @hatepaperdoll: You were probably just dizzy from looking at her dress.


    I once punched out Tommy Hilfiger AND Axl in one night. Axl was just for Chinese Deomcracy, but Hilfiger had it coming after he knocked over Cindy Crawford.

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    05/06/09

    @AbbyNormal: Braincrazy FemiZombie: I took out Anna Wintour with a spring roll.


    Didn't even break a nail.

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    05/06/09

    @AbbyNormal: Braincrazy FemiZombie: i once thumb-wrestled donatella versace.
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    05/06/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    Is anyone else saddened and sort of horrified at the idea of Michael Jackson performing again? I mean. Just looking at him is enough to make you sad. He just looks so broken and brittle and sick. I'm thinking that these concert plans may be scrapped in short order, and i'm thinking that'd probably be the best thing.
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    05/06/09

    In reply to Rihanna May Get Glossy; Kiefer Sutherland "Was Really Drunk"
    Madonna is probably wearing her sunglasses at night in the rain for the same reason I wear mine in the rain on my walks to and from work: protect the mascara so you don't arrive at your destination looking like you just came off the set of Montel.
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    05/06/09

    @LaFemme: It's not so you can so you can watch her weave then breathe her story lines?
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    05/06/09

    @AbbyNormal: Braincrazy FemiZombie: Or so you can (so you can)
    Keep track of the visions in my eyes?
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