Or, sex bad, violence good.
Rep Henry Waxman's report on The Content of Federally Funded Abstinence- Only Education Programs finds that these curricula, meant for children and adolescents, present "false, misleading, or distorted information about reproductive health" (including assertions that an abortion will make you sterile and that condoms don't protect against STDs) and stunningly outdated stereotypes about gender roles. For example, one curriculum lists 'Financial Support' as one of 'The 5 Major Needs of Women' and 'Domestic Support' as one of 'The 5 Major Needs of Men.' The curriculum states: "Just as a woman needs to feel a man's devotion to her, a man has a primary need to feel a woman's admiration. To admire a man is to regard him with wonder, delight and approval. A man feels admired when his unique characteristics and talents happily amaze her."
(via Girl In The Locker Room)
I don't need anyone supporting me financially, but anyone who's seen my apartment can tell you I could really use some domestic support. Apparently, I'm a man.
That's why I pay my taxes to kill Iraqi civilians.
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Her face is turned toward the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, she sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of her feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm . . . . irresistibly propels her into the future to which her back is turned, while the pile of debris before her grows skyward. (Walter Benjamin, revised)
