The first story I have for today blew my mind in so many different ways. I wanted to laugh at the absurdity of the concept...while screaming at the inhumanity, misogyny and brainwashing of it all.
"Spare the Rod, Spoil the Wife" - Salon's BroadsheetBroadsheet discusses the website Christian Domestic Discipline/Loving Wife Spanking in a Christian Marriage and other blogs that agree with this way of life. Broadsheet takes this from their website: "The wife is submissive to her husband as is fit in the Lord and her
husband loves her as himself. He has the ultimate authority in his
household, but it is tempered with the knowledge that he must answer to
God for his actions and decisions. He has the authority to spank his
wife for punishment." They website even sells cooling ointments to put on bruised areas of the body!
"Getting Justice for Private Johnson" - Feministing
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LaVena Johnson died in Iraq on July 19, 2005. The seemingly happy
and healthy 19-year old Private First Class soldier was found dead by a
gunshot wound with bruising, a dislocated shoulder, an indication that
someone tried to set her body on fire, and a number of other signs
including a blood trail outside of the tent she was found in. But
despite all of these factors, the U.S. Army declared that her death was
caused by suicide and shut the case quietly....Although the Johnson family have been desperately trying to get her case reopened, the Army has refused. Shocking, I know....LaVena's father, Dr. John Johnson, believes that his daughter was murdered, and that the murder was connected to sexual assault."
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and to think i'd almost given up on my search for crotchless pantaloons!
i signed the petition for lavena johnson. the army's covering something up, what's new.