Why not just blind them?

And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell. Matthew 5:29
From BBC News:
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear [...]

Cruising

It’s tough being young and repressed. A NYT article talks about the lengths young men in sex-segragated Saudi Arabia will go to meet young women. One of the most popular ways is “numbering,” trying to exchange phone numbers with women they pass in cars.
A phone number written out on a piece of cardboard [...]

The Greeks called and they want their name back

Since the 7th century BCE, the Greek isle of Lesbos has been famed as the birthplace of Sappho, perhaps the greatest poet of antiquity, who is noted for her poetry celebrating love between women. In her honor, gay women adopted the label lesbians for their self-identification. I think most of us know [...]

Imagine a place this safe ….

When Meredith first started talking about going to Denmark for a semester, her primary goal was to convince me of how safe it is there. I didn’t believe her, knowing the crime statistics of any US city of comparable size. But from the archives of her memory she pulled out the story of [...]

“The fire down below”*

In the US we’re shamefully uncomfortable discussing the sexual needs of the physically and mentally handicapped, as well as the elderly. Because we’d rather not think about it, their needs are often left unfulfilled. That doesn’t appear to be the case in Europe.
From the Copenhagen Post:
Carers help nursing home residents buy sex [...]

And you think cyclists get no respect here

From the Sunday Mail (UK):
A Spanish driver who fatally collided with a cyclist is suing the dead youth’s family 20,000 Euros (£14,830) for the damage the impact of his body did to his luxury car, a Spanish newspaper reported.
Businessman Tomas Delgado says 17-year-old Enaitz Iriondo caused 14,000 Euros (£10,384) of damage to his Audi [...]

All your citizens are belong to us

Why bother with inconvenient diplomacy and annoying delays when you can just scoop up a foreign citizen off the streets in own country, stuff him in an airplane, and deliver him to a court in the United States? No muss, no fuss, no petty details of extradition treaties, not even with established allies like [...]

Go north young man

Even our staunchest allies have come to recognize that the United States can no longer be counted on to respect the human rights of refugees, hence the Canadian high court has ruled that asylum seekers from via US should be admitted without discrimination.
From CTVA.ca:
The United States is not a safe country for refugees, the Federal [...]

“In return for your hard work, you get to strip.”

Recently a lingerie company in Taiwan introduced eight new camisoles into the market and successfully sold more than 20,000 in less than two months. To celebrate, did they hand out bonuses? Host a company party or picnic? Nope. On November 21 they directed their 500 female employees to come to work [...]

Do you cost more than you’re worth?

“No fat chicks.” That sign might as well hang over the port of entry in Auckland. Just ask Rowan Trezise, who was refused permission to enter the country with her husband when the New Zealand emigration board ruled she was not eligible for residency. Her failing? Having a BMI greater than [...]

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