yeah, Rosa Parks was an *activist* seamstress.(Not that activists don't get tired, too, as a half-assed one. But she knew she was starting stuff up.)
Willow: That's a work ethic! Buffy, you're developing a work ethic! Buffy: Do they make an ointment for that?
'Beneath You'
Spike's Bitches 47: Someone Dangerous Could Get In
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
erikaj - Dec 30, 2011 10:56:21 am PST #4897 of 30001
Always Anti-fascist!
Hil R. - Dec 30, 2011 11:09:06 am PST #4898 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
I think the feminist blog comment thread argument (it was on feministing several years ago) that made me roll my eyes the most was, for a post about a new book looking at Judaism and the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective, someone was arguing at length that it's impossible to look at the bible from a feminist perspective, because the bible is inherently anti-feminist, because G-d raped Mary.
Hil R. - Dec 30, 2011 11:21:07 am PST #4899 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Shir, I thought this editorial from a Jewish newspaper in New Jersey was interesting. [link] (For some context on this paper, it's for the suburbs of NYC, and will usually have some articles about Israeli politics, but the bulk of the paper is local news -- the cover article this week is about how Zumba, a new dance exercise class, is getting very popular at the Jewish Community Center, and there's another big article about an 11-year-old girl who's baking cookies and selling them to raise money for charity.)
meara - Dec 30, 2011 11:26:18 am PST #4900 of 30001
because the bible is inherently anti-feminist, because G-d raped Mary.
Er, say what now? At least in all the Bible teaching I've heard, God ASKED, and she said yes! I mean, per Catholic teachings she was all special-born-without-sin blah blah, so I guess she didn't have a choice in THAT part, but...are we talking statutory here?
Hil R. - Dec 30, 2011 11:28:33 am PST #4901 of 30001
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Er, say what now? At least in all the Bible teaching I've heard, God ASKED, and she said yes! I mean, per Catholic teachings she was all special-born-without-sin blah blah, so I guess she didn't have a choice in THAT part, but...are we talking statutory here?
I have no idea. I was trying not to get into that part of the argument, since I was arguing that the entire thing was irrelevant to a discussion of Judaism.
Strix - Dec 30, 2011 11:30:29 am PST #4902 of 30001
A dress should be tight enough to show you're a woman but loose enough to flee from zombies. — Ginger
StW texted me this morning, asking if I had NYE plans. He texted me first and I haven't answered him yet. I WIN.
BWAH! But go team you!
I am slowly becoming less invested in caring about M's mom's antics; I know it doesn't SEEM like it, because I bitch here all the time, but I HAVE to share some of the craxy, and then I let it go.
Aren't y'all LUCKY?! /sarcasm
I think the feminist blog comment thread argument (it was on feministing several years ago) that made me roll my eyes the most was, for a post about a new book looking at Judaism and the Hebrew Bible from a feminist perspective, someone was arguing at length that it's impossible to look at the bible from a feminist perspective, because the bible is inherently anti-feminist, because G-d raped Mary
Hil, REALLY?! That's insaneovision.
Nora Deirdre - Dec 30, 2011 11:35:22 am PST #4903 of 30001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
Well, to be fair, the bible isn't too awesome toward women.
sumi - Dec 30, 2011 11:42:56 am PST #4904 of 30001
Art Crawl!!!
Why is Mary in the Old Testament?
I mean - I agree with Hil - how is Mary relevant to a discussion of Judaism?
le nubian - Dec 30, 2011 11:46:18 am PST #4905 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
how is Mary relevant to a discussion of Judaism?
fair question.
Zenkitty - Dec 30, 2011 11:46:32 am PST #4906 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
At least in all the Bible teaching I've heard, God ASKED, and she said yes!
I don't recall that part. Maybe it's there, I just remember the Annunciation (not called the Asking, after all), not Mary's response.
G-d raped Mary
Ew. I never saw it THAT way. It was a gift. An inconvenient, awkward gift that almost got her forcibly divorced, but still.
I was arguing that the entire thing was irrelevant to a discussion of Judaism.
It's a little disheartening that that had to be pointed out.