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Posted in Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 7th, 2010
There is a sick theme running through all of this - or at least a clear attempt to involve some form of mental illness, and an attempt to bring in the people in white coats - well, at least psychologists if not psychiatrists.
Hey, I really, really don’t want to jump on the bandwagon and pour [...]
If it is not women’s legs and bottoms (see Appropriateness), it is their breasts. Apparently some men, especially some religious men, just can’t leave them alone. It is bad enough that some women in the Sudan are being whipped for wearing trousers, now some in Somalia are being whipped for wearing bras.
According to press reports:
A HARDLINE Islamist [...]
Posted in Existential, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Society, Therapy on Apr 24th, 2009
I’m not quite sure what ‘normal’ is, but I’m pretty sure that I’m not it. When the roulette wheel of life flung out its genes, mine fell somewhere near the far edge of the distribution curve, not in the middle. I am learning to live with that. At times it has been unpleasant: at other [...]
Posted in Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Society on Oct 20th, 2008
Ok, ‘hunter’ is not the word I really want, but it will have to do for now, and you will have to understand that I don’t want it to carry some of the connotations that it probably does have. ’Hunter’ implies a power imbalance and a victim that I don’t want it to have in [...]
Posted in Government, Human Rights, Law, Morality, Relationships on Aug 12th, 2008
A 25 year old woman who was raped in the West End of London was initially told by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority (CICA), which covers England, Scotland and Wales, that her £11,000 compensation award would be reduced by 25 per cent because she had been drinking. However, that decision has been overturned as her [...]
Posted in Art, Uncategorized on Mar 30th, 2008
You could say it was all about underwear, but that would be being too simplistic - not least because it was only the women who were undressed.
On Friday my wife and I trundled down to London to see a show. Following the principle of “Now that the kids have flown, let’s get some life [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humor, Humour, Morality, Psychology, Relationships, Religion on Jan 27th, 2008
You may already have heard a version of this old joke.
The pope arrived at the pearly Gates and St. Peter greeted him and quickly told him that it was very difficult to get an audience with God. The pope said he did not mind because when he was alive he had the same problem. They [...]
Posted in Censorship, Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Religion, Science, Society on Jan 25th, 2008
Many religions have always expressed an interest in the way people dress and wear their hair, although traditionally most of the attention was focused on women. The concepts of ‘modesty’ and ‘hidden’ occur in the holy books written by men. One of the strangest things I have discovered in recent months is that at [...]
Posted in Faith, Human Rights, Humanity, Morality, Relationships, Religion on Jan 21st, 2008
In a country where unmarried couples who have sex, or who even date and hold hands can be arrested, fined, and flogged, Maryam (a hairdresser) and Karim (a salesman) managed to carry on a relationship for five years. The reason this was possible is that they were able to produce the correct documents whenever [...]
Posted in Health, Human Rights, Humanity, Isolation, Morality, Relationships, Religion, Television on Jan 14th, 2008
Authority has more authority when it comes soaked in credibility.
If you were learning to drive, you wouldn’t want to be taught by someone with very limited experience of the road - someone who had only trundled up and down a straight piece of tarmac in a very limited and safe environment. You would hope [...]
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