The Penis’s Image Problem In Comparative Gender Perspective

By Author Douglas Galbi: As children readily recognize, vaginas and penises have different surface forms. But when we become thoroughly educated adults, we set aside childish ways of understanding. Now we think with poetry and rhetorical sophistication. The superficial differences between penises and vaginas now support stark gender inequality in genital figures.
While the penis plays a vital role in bringing persons together in intimate, loving unity, the penis is commonly figured as a weapon. The penis-sword metaphor is “common to virtually all cultures.”[1] In ancient Greece and in the Roman Empire, weapons evoked not social concern for vastly gender-disproportionate violence against men, but the sense of men’s penises:

the frequency of ad hoc metaphors both in Greek and Latin shows that the sexual symbolism of weapons was instantly recognisable in ancient society. [2]

Texas: She Didn’t Sign The Support Apartheid “Israel Oath,” So She Got Fired

Bahia Amawi says Austin school district violated her First Amendment rights when it withdrew job contract over her refusal to sign pro-Israel pledge

A children’s speech pathologist refuses to sign a will-not-boycott-Israel oath: she loses her job, an unknown number of children lose her advocacy. She notes how outlandish it is that she is not required to uphold the interests of the United States, or Texas, or children, but a foreign country.

As The Intercept has repeatedly documented, the most frequent victims of official campus censorship are not conservative polemicists but pro-Palestinian activists, and the greatest and most severe threat posed to free speech throughout the west is aimed at apartheid Jewish Israel critics.

Idris Elba's Strange Grovelling

johntheother: Public Praise for an obviously grovelling toadie :In a recent interview, Idris Elba made us swoon even more than usual with his take on #MeToo https://www.scarymommy.com/idris-elba...

President Sheldon Adelson ~ Trump Merely Chief Of Staff

He bet millions on Trump

and now his every wish is fulfilled

at the expense of Middle East peace.

By TAC: A bet on Donald Trump for president may have seemed risky two years ago. But for billionaire casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, the payout has been spectacular.
The 85-year-old and his wife Miriam gave $82 million to Republicans and candidate Trump in 2016, and within two years watched their man execute two major Adelson asks: moving the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, and withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal.
This was accomplished in consultation with Adelson comprador John Bolton, who in December 2016 promised members of the American Friends of Beit El that Trump would not only move the embassy—declaring Jerusalem the true capital of Israel—but that he would not oppose any Jewish settlement expansion in the West Bank territories. Adelson is also credited with opening the door for Bolton’s appointment to national security adviser in March.

The Court Of The NPCs

DoctorRandomercam:

Canceling Debt To Avoid Economic Crisis + A Looming Hot War For The Internet Age

"Macron is a bankster, he was put there by the bankstering establishment to create the scenario to allow for this interest rate apartheid to continue. We all live in a state of artificially low interest rates for them, high rates for us and now its Game On!"

Max and Stacy discuss David Graeber’s thought piece about the #GiletsJaunes and how the fact that intellectuals have failed to understand it proves we are living in revolutionary times. Graeber notes, as Keiser Report had only last month, that Cantillon effect has created the mass disparity in wealth against which those who must pay for this disparity are rising up.

Patreon Problem And Solution: Dave Rubin And Jordan Peterson + Social Media Mobs And Monsters

Harvard Study Shows Gender Wage Gap Explained By Work Choices

Independent Man:
Harvard University deals another blow
to the gender wage gap.

70% Chance Of NATO-Russia Combat: "US Ready To Fight To The Last Brit"

Hungarian scholar George Szamuely tells Ann Garrison that he sees a 70 percent chance of combat between NATO and Russia following the incident in the Kerch Strait and that it is being fueled by Russia-gate.

An Interview with George Szamuely

Authored by Ann Garrison: George Szamuely is a Hungarian-born scholar and Senior Research Fellow at London’s Global Policy Institute. He lives in New York City. I spoke to him about escalating hostilities on Russia’s Ukrainian and Black Sea borders and about Exercise Trident Juncture, NATO’s massive military exercise on Russian borders which ended just as the latest hostilities began.

Ann Garrison: George, the hostilities between Ukraine, NATO, and Russia continue to escalate in the Sea of Azov, the Kerch Strait, and the Black Sea. What do you think the latest odds of a shooting war between NATO and Russia are, if one hasn’t started by the time this is published?

George Szamuely: Several weeks ago, when we first talked about this, I said 60 percent. Now I’d say, maybe 70 percent. The problem is that Trump seems determined to be the anti-Obama. Obama, in Trump’s telling, “allowed” Russia to take Crimea and to “invade” Ukraine. Therefore, it will be up to Trump to reverse this. Just as he, Trump, reversed Obama’s policy on Iran by walking away from the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, otherwise known as the Iran nuclear deal. So expect ever-increasing US involvement in Ukraine.

Proof Of Consent Banned From Court

"The law is now a farce!"

johntheother.

How Emperor Otto The Great Judged Pope Accused Of Raping Women

By Author Douglas Galbi: In our ignorant and barbaric age, the preferred approach to handling accusations that a man committed sexual offenses against a woman is to listen and believe the woman, have the leading organs of public propaganda sensationally denounce the man, and then have a cathartic celebration of public hate directed at him. In tenth-century Europe, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto the Great (Otto I) took a much more reasoned, deliberative approach when Pope John XII was accused of rape and other serious crimes. Studying this history, as well as the long history of false accusations of rape, can contribute to overcoming the oppressive structures of gender inequality in criminal justice.
The charge that Pope John XII raped women emerged when Otto sent inquires to Rome about apparently seditious activity. Otto’s messengers gathered a report from a number of reputable Romans. According to this report, Pope John XII was carrying on a sexual affair with the widow of the soldier Rainerius. Moreover, John was giving to her golden crosses and chalices that were ancient, prized possessions of the Church.

Facts & Latest News On Gaza Concentration Camp Male, Female, Child And Baby Inmates' Great March Of Return

'December deaths include a 4-year-old boy who was shot twice with expanding bullets.'

Since March 30, Palestinian fugees in the Gaza Strip concentration camp - including families, men, women, children and little babies have gathered along the Israeli border to highlight their dispossession and incarceration in 1948 and protest the growing humanitarian catastrophe. 
Jewish Israeli death forces IDF have killed about 240 and injured over 25,000 protesters, including men, women, children, disabled individuals, medics, babies and journalists, since the beginning of the Great Return March on Palestinian Land. Many have been shot in the back. Go here to learn the details of each murder.

Gaza Factsheet on why Palestinians are marching

Take action here to stop Israel’s killing of unarmed demonstrators