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mgt2011

Rape Culture Is Real | TIME Rape culture --> clothing - 0 views

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  • a culture in which sexual violence is the norm and victims are blamed for their own assaults.
  • Is 1 in 5 American women surviving rape or attempted rape considered a cultural norm? Is 1 in 6 men being abused before the age of 18 a cultural norm?
  • s there anything you would have done differently?”)
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    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 26 Mar 15
       
      The idea that outfit provokes/ is responsible for boys' actions 
  • “But actual rapists, men who are usually known to (and often loved by) their victims? Men who are sometimes our sports heroes, political leaders, buddies, boyfriends and fathers? Evidence suggests we don’t despise them nearly as much as we should.”
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 26 Mar 15
       
      We find it harder to place blame on the men we view as helpful to society give excuses to boys a lot 
  • she was asking for it.
  • An analysis by RAINN found that 97% of rapists never spend a single day in jail for their crimes.
jamescmcguire

Lila Abu-Lughod: Do Muslim Women Need Saving? | TIME.com - 0 views

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  • But we were confusing veiling with a lack of agency. What most of us didn’t know is that 30 years ago the anthropologist Hanna Papanek described the burqa as “portable seclusion” and noted that many women saw it as a liberating invention because it enabled them to move out of segregated living spaces while still observing the requirements of separating and protecting women from unrelated men.
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      rtussey on 10 Sep 14
       
      But isn't the problem that they feel they need protection from "unrelated men"? True they are able to go into public, but their living spaces are still segregated. She goes on to critique Western women for feeling liberated but still being constricted by "tyrannies of fashion." However, I don't see these two issues as comparable. True, American women will face criticism and experience disadvantages if they do not conform to basic social beauty norms, but they will still be allowed to leave their homes and interact with society. 
  • A moral crusade to rescue oppressed Muslim women from their cultures and their religion has swept the public sphere, dissolving distinctions between conservatives and liberals, sexists and feminists. The crusade has justified all manner of intervention from the legal to the military, the humanitarian to the sartorial. But it has also reduced Muslim women to a stereotyped singularity, plastering a handy cultural icon over much more complicated historical and political dynamics.
  • There is no doubt that Western notions of human rights can be credited for the hope for a better world for all women. But I suspect that the deep moral conviction people feel about the rightness of saving the women of that timeless homogeneous mythical place called Islamland is fed by something else that cannot be separated from our current geopolitical relations. Blinded to the diversity of Muslim women’s lives, we tend to see our own situation too comfortably. Representing Muslim women as
emschaeffer

Why Does Scotland Want Independence? It's Culture vs. Economics - 0 views

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Europe Social Political Economic

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  • emschaeffer on 11 Sep 14
     
    If you had told someone in 2012 that in just two years the eurozone would remain bonded together but the United Kingdom might not, they would have thought you insane. But here we are. It's been a good three centuries, but now Scotland may want out of the United Kingdom.
mcmecke

ISIS, ISIL Or Islamic State: What's In A Name? : Parallels : NPR - 0 views

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state middle ISIS ISIL political International Midde East Social Cultural Levant Syria Islam Islamic

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  • "They're claiming to represent all Muslims everywhere — they have declared the establishment of a new caliphate,"
  • the abbreviation IS — Blank says he's seen its usage increase over the past two months.
  • the self-declared Islamic State" or some equivalent phrase, use ISIS in later references and, when necessary, explain that ISIL is another widely used acronym.)
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  • That's a direct translation of the group's full name in Arabic, but "Syria" in this case means "Greater Syria" — not the modern nation by that name.
  • "It refers to Syria, Lebanon, parts of Turkey, parts of what are now Jordan," Blank explains. "The 'S' in the Arabic is "al-Sham."
  • It's a bit confusing: the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria-but-not-just-"Syria."
  • preferred by the Obama administration translates "al-Sham" as "the Levant," another name for the same region — one that isn't as misleading as "Syria."
  • The word "Levant" isn't very common today.
  • a once-common term that now has something of an antique whiff about it, like 'the Orient.' Because of the term's French colonial associations, many Arab nationalists and Islamist radicals disdain it, and it is unlikely that the militant group would choose 'Levant' to render its name."
  • "the Islamic State" — is a key piece of propaganda for the group, especially when it comes to targeting potential terrorist recruits.
  • none of these foreign fighters see themselves as terrorists. They see themselves as knights. They see themselves as mujahedeen. They see themselves as freedom fighters," Blank says. "So they're very interested in fighting for the Islamic State, and they do not regard what they are doing as in any way an act of terrorism."
  • "That's a totally different narrative, and it's one that the U.S. can facilitate, but the U.S. cannot really control."
  • mcmecke on 12 Sep 14
     
    Acronyms: ISIS or ISIL?
jacob4575

David Cameron vows to hunt down 'monsters' who beheaded British hostage David Haines - ... - 1 views

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Middle East Political ISIS Cultural Europe

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  • The Prime Minister strongly indicated that he is preparing to authorise military air strikes against Isil terrorists in Iraq and Syria.
  • "They boast of their brutality; they claim to do this in the name of Islam. That is nonsense. Islam is a religion of peace. They are not Muslims, they are monsters.”
  • He warned that Isil are planning attacks in the UK. “We cannot ignore this threat to our security and that of our allies,”
matthan

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/president-obama-address-nation-isis-strategy-25405041 - 0 views

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Middle East Political interactions ISIS Cultural Americas

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mgt2011

In Weddings, Pope Francis Looks Past Tradition - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Social Religous weddings pope Cultural Europe

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  • “not a television show” but a symbol of “real life” with “joys and difficulties,”
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Who should get to decide who can legally get married and who can't? 
  • But in Francis’s new, more forgiving church,
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Forgiveness requires someone to say they are wrong and ask for it
  • have been declining even as separations and divorces are rising.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Divorce is frowned upon greatly in the Catholic church
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  • about 122,000 of the country’s 207,000 weddings were religious ceremonies,
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Important statistic
  • Vatican watchers said the public marriages, the first by a pope since 2000, were meant to send a message, something Francis has done previously to soften the church’s image on social issues.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      makes it sound like a publicity stunt. Why would they need to soften their image? Losing followers?
  • for example, the pope said he would not condemn — or judge — priests because of their sexual orientation.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      This is a big deal
  • he’s a realist.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      makes him different than previous priests
  • ‘who am I to judge?
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      Pope used to be the judge as in he literally forgave sins and you had to go through him 
  • pope, who doesn’t want to turn people away and instead wants to find a way to bring people in,
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      important
  • “The path is not always a smooth one, free of disagreements, otherwise it would not be human. It is a demanding journey, at times difficult, and at times turbulent, but such is life,”
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      realizes its not possible for everyone to be able to be perfect 
  • issues like allowing divorced members who remarry to receive Communion.
    • mgt2011
      mgt2011 on 17 Sep 14
       
      why is this an issue?
ianscox

White House seeks to win over skeptics on Islamic State fight | Reuters - 0 views

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Middle East Political Cultural The Americas

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  • White House seeks to win over skeptics on Islamic State fight
  • U.S. lawmakers have generally been supportive of the effort but Republicans, who control the House of Representatives, have accused Obama of not doing enough to deal with the problem sooner and have questioned whether the strategy goes far enough.
    • ianscox
      ianscox on 15 Sep 14
       
      Ugh, I doubt we will get anything done if we stay divided like this. 
steven_butz

Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Americas Cultural

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  • Family Room for Relatives of 9/11 Victims Is Recreated in Albany
  • “What tower? What floor? That was the way other people saw our loved ones,”
  • “It was adamantly not how we wanted to define our loved ones.
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  • the mourning has never ended.
  • The Family Room opened in April 2002 in space donated by Brookfield Office Properties, the owners of 1 Liberty Plaza, a 54-story skyscraper across Church Street from the trade center site.
  • replaced this summer by a new private gathering space in the National September 11 Memorial Museum pavilion
  • “We don’t want to have anything in our collection that a donor doesn’t want us to have.”
  • I feel it’s time for people to see our pain, our anguish, our love and our strength; to experience all that we felt and feel about our loved ones, in its purest and most uninhibited form.
  • 300 cubic feet
parkerwsmith

Australia raises terror alert level to 'high' - CNN.com - 0 views

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australia terror alert level Social Interactions political Economic Cultural

shared by parkerwsmith on 12 Sep 14 - No Cached
  • Australia has raised its terror alert level to "high" for the first time since the national alert system was introduced in 2003.
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