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Fleeing from violent men

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Due to Tory cutbacks, most of the women in the UK that need to flee from a violent man can no longer find a place to flee to.

Marrying young

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Global heating effects are causing poverty in parts of Africa, so farmers' daughters are compelled to marry young.

The other jaw of the poverty vice is overpopulation. Marrying young is likely to increase population growth, driving the population into a spiral that leads to mass starvation.

Psychedelic mushrooms

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

There are ballot campaigns to legalize psychedelic mushrooms in California and Oregon.

MSF blocked from Manus

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

Papuan thugs are blocking Médecins Sans Frontières from visiting the refugees of Manus Island in their new prison.

Transgender dispute

mardi 28 novembre 2017 à 01:00

The dispute between defenders of transgender females' rights, and the feminists who distrust them as males, is getting so heated that it is causing difficulties for various progressive and radical movements. The plutocratists must be chuckling.

In principle I think both sides have a valid concern. However, in practice the transgender people face a real problem, while the fearful feminists face only a theoretical problem.

There is indeed no formal obstacle to stop a straight male from putting on women's clothing and calling himself a transgender woman in order to visit women's bathrooms; but surely this must be very rare. Most straight males who might consider going to such lengths to peep at women would feel a horror of making themselves "effeminate" by dressing as women. They wouldn't consider actually doing that.