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> A JavaScript module for symbolic expressions, e.g. formatted mathematical formulas.
> The official site is [http://www.mathscribe.com/author/jqmath.html](http://www.mathscribe.com/author/jqmath.html)

## Installation

```
npm install --save jqmath
```

## Usage

```js
import {parseMath, M} from 'jqmath'
parseMath(document.body)
```

## Examples

- [just a simple demo](https://luxp.github.io/jqmath)

## Development Setup

```
npm install
npm run build
```

## License

[MIT](http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

Copyright (c) 2016-present, Xianpo (Alan) Lu


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On 21 November 2022, Dov Jacobs from SILC participated in a Training for Iraqi Judges organised by the International Nuremberg Principles Academy and UNITAD organised in Nuremberg, Germany.
This 5-day training focused on a diverse selection of themes to reinforce domestic knowledge and expertise in international criminal law and international humanitarian law, such as the law of armed conflict, the history and practice of international criminal trials, the definition of international crimes, the law applicable to the punishment of terrorism, etc.
Dov Jacobs' presentation focused on two important issues.
First of all, the training delved into the scope and definition of the rights of the Defense in international criminal proceedings, centered around the key principle of the presumption of innocence. The discussion brought out some key aspects surrounding the principle of legality, i.e the importance of defining international crimes in a way that allows certainly and predictability for those concerned with the application of international criminal law, within the general context of the fight against impunity. Dov Jacobs highlighted the fact that the respect for the rights of the Defense is a societal choice that contributes to the legitimacy of the system as a whole and the enforcement of the international and national rule of law. As such, it should be of concern to the international community as a whole that these rights be respected.
Second of all, the training addressed some fundamental aspects of the right to detain persons in international and non-international armed conflict. In particular, the discussion focused on the ambiguities surrounding the legal basis to detail persons in non-international armed conflict and the difficult and overlapping interaction between several sources of law: treaty law, customary law, human rights law, domestic law and soft law norms, such as the Mandela rules. The discussion brought out the tension between international norms and local obstacles in combatting crimes and the importance of reinforcing domestic capacities in order for justice to be delivered as close as possible to the affected communities in order for it to be meaningful. In that respect, local Judges have the primary responsibility to use their discretion in the interpretation of the law that promotes accountability in full respect for the rule of law.
During the training, the Nuremberg Academy organised a visit to Courtroom 600, where the Nuremberg trial of senior Nazi officials took place after the second world war, a trial symbolic of the modern birth of international criminal law and international criminal trials, precursor to the ad hoc tribunals and
The visit of Courtroom 600 was an opportunity to engage in a fruitful discussion with the participants not only about the groundbreaking moment that the Nuremberg trial represents in the fight against impunity but also the limits of remote and victor's justice and the difficulty of respecting the rights of the Defense, in such a morally charged context, both from the perspective of the principle of legality and from a practical point of view, given the volume of evidence that had to be analysed and challenged in a limited amount of time.
The trainings are always mutually enriching moments for both the participants and the trainer, and this one was no exception, with the training session being a moment of dialogue on best practices at the international and domestic level, taking into account the wealth of experience of those who, daily, in their domestic system, set up accountability mechanisms in difficult circumstances.
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The Government has been rapped over the knuckles by the Auditor General over its failure to properly manage $2.3m of contracts and conflicts of interest in relation to a merchant banker advising them on the state house sell-off, says Labour's Housing spokesperson Phil Twyford.
"It's a disgrace that at a time when people are living in camp grounds and garages this Government is ignoring obvious conflicts of interest as they flog off billions of dollars' worth of publically-owned land and housing to merchant bankers, foreign companies and overseas PPP investors.
"Andrew Body was paid $2.3m to help develop the sell-off policy, then to advise on the sell-off itself. Meanwhile one of his clients – UK-based PPP investor John Laing – was an interested party and is now a shortlisted bidder for the first tranche of houses to be sold.
"Housing NZ has been ticked off for failing to tender six major contracts in breach of the agency's own procurement rules.
"This dodgy process makes it all the more alarming the National Government has changed the law to give ministers extraordinary unfettered powers to negotiate the sale of state houses on any terms they want.
"Housing NZ provided incorrect responses under the OIA and tried to cover up the conflicts of interest and their failure to tender these major contracts under government procurement rules.
"New Zealanders hate the idea that millions of dollars of state houses are being sold off by and to merchant bankers and overseas companies. It's even more galling when this increasingly arrogant Government can't even follow basic rules in the sell off," says Phil Twyford.


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Lawrie Bond, Microcar Man: An Illustrated History of Bond Cars
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Once a common sight on Britain's roads, few people today seem to have heard of the Bond Minicar not a diminutive, gadget laden conveyance for the fictional 007 character, but a popular, practical, motorcycle-engined, three-wheeler that in the post-war austerity period, gave tens of thousands of people affordable personal transport at a time when conventional vehicles were beyond the reach of the average household. Yet whilst the later, mostly imported, 'Bubble cars' have remained in the public eye, it is largely forgotten that the first of the post-war 'Microcars' to go into significant production was the British designed and built Bond. Equally enigmatic seems to be the designer of this vehicle, Lawrence 'Lawrie' Bond a prolific automotive design genius, with a penchant for weight-saving construction techniques. He was responsible for a wide range of two, three and four wheel vehicles; from ultra-lightweight motorcycles and scooters, such as the Minibyke, Lilliput and Gazelle, as well as his other Microcars the stylish Berkeley and perhaps less-than-pretty Opperman Unicar and finally to his later work, including the innovative, but troubled Bond 875 and styling the Equipe GT sportscar. Here the story is told in full, covering all Lawrie's innovative designs and the various vehicles that bore his name, all in prolifically illustrated detail, together with his passion for motor racing, which resulted in a number of technically acclaimed racing cars, some of which can still be seen competing is historic racing events today.
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and the city, the one being holy, Y'rushalayim, the one being new, I saw coming down from the heavens, from haElohim, being made ready as bride being adorned for man of her.
And I heard voice, being great, from the heavens, saying: 'Behold tabernacle of Elohim with sons of the man, and he will dwell with them, and them, they will be to him for people, and he, haElohim with them, he will be to the them for Elohim.
And he will wipe every of tear from eyes of them, and the death not he will be still, and no mourning, and no outcry, indeed no pain he will be still for the ones being first they passed.
And he said, the one sitting on the throne: 'Behold they are finished for the ones being new making I.' And he said: 'Write because of that these the ones being spoken ones being faithful and ones being true them.
And he said to me: 'They are: I Aleph and Tav, the head and the end, I, I will give to the one being thirsty from springs of the waters.
Who whom overcoming he will inherit these and I will be to him for Elohim, and he, he will be to me for son.
Nevertheless for the ones being cowards, and the failing of ones believing, and the ones sinning, and the ones being abominable, and the ones killing, and the ones being harlot, and the ones being sorcerers, and ones serving the ones being worthless, and all of the ones cheating, portion of them in the lake, the one burning with fire and brimstone, which he the death, the one being second.
in to be to her splendour of haElohim light of her similar to stone, being precious very, like stone of jasper, the one being similar to bdellium.
And being to the her wall, being great and being high, that twos ten gates to the her, and at the gates twos ten ones being delegated, and names, ones being written on them, that them names of twos ten branches of sons of Yisra'el.
From rising three gates, and from north three gates, and from south three gates, and from setting three gates.
And wall of the city being to her twos ten foundations and on them twos ten names that of twos ten ones being sent of the lamb.
And the he, whom he spoke to me, she was to him measure, reed of gold, for sake of he measure the city, and gates of her, and wall of her.
And the city daughter of four corners she, and length of her being equal to width of her, and he measured the city with the reed: twos ten thousand stadia, and length of her, and width of her, and height of her, ones being equal them.
And he measured wall of her: hundred and forties and four cubits, measure of man, which she measure of one being delegated.
And building of wall of her jasper, and the city gold, being pure, similar to glass, being pure.
the fifth carbuncle; the sixth ruby; the seventh jasper; the eighth onyx; the ninth topaz; the tenth agate; the one ten ligure; the twos ten amethyst.
And twos ten the gates twos ten pearls them, every of one from the gates pearl, and the being open, the being wide, that of the city, gold, being pure, like glass shining.
And temple not I saw in her for Y'hovah, one holding the all, he the temple and the lamb.
and they will go, the nations, whom they are set free, by light of her, and ones reigning of the earth ones making come in to her glory of them and honour of the nations.
and they will make come in to her glory of the nations and he will honour them.
And not he will gather ones to her any of being unclean, and one doing being loathesome and being false, rather only these whom ones being written in being recorded of the ones being alive that of the lamb.


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require File.expand_path(File.join(File.dirname(__FILE__), '../unit_spec_helper'))

describe BraintreeRails::Transaction do
  before do
    stub_braintree_request(:get, '/customers/customer_id', :body => fixture('customer.xml'))
    stub_braintree_request(:get, '/payment_methods/credit_card/credit_card_id', :body => fixture('credit_card.xml'))
    stub_braintree_request(:get, '/transactions/transactionid', :body => fixture('transaction.xml'))
  end

  describe '#initialize' do
    it 'should find transaction from braintree when given a transaction id' do
      braintree_transaction = Braintree::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new('transactionid')

      expect(transaction).to be_persisted
      [:amount, :created_at, :updated_at].each do |attribute|
        expect(transaction.send(attribute)).to eq(braintree_transaction.send(attribute))
      end
    end

    it 'should wrap a Braintree::Transaction' do
      braintree_transaction = Braintree::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(braintree_transaction)

      expect(transaction).to be_persisted
      [:amount, :created_at, :updated_at].each do |attribute|
        expect(transaction.send(attribute)).to eq(braintree_transaction.send(attribute))
      end
    end

    it 'should extract values from hash' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:id => 'new_id')

      expect(transaction).to_not be_persisted
      expect(transaction.id).to eq('new_id')
    end

    it 'should try to extract value from other types' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(OpenStruct.new(:id => 'foobar', :amount => '10.00', :persisted? => true))

      expect(transaction).to be_persisted
      expect(transaction.id).to eq('foobar')
      expect(transaction.amount).to eq('10.00')

      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(Object.new)
      expect(transaction).to_not be_persisted
    end
  end

  [:customer, :credit_card, :billing, :shipping].each do |association|
    describe association do
      it "should load #{association} for persisted transaction" do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new('transactionid')
        expect(transaction.send(association)).to be_persisted
      end

      it "should keep #{association} nil if assigned nil value" do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(association => nil)
        expect(transaction.send(association)).to be_nil
      end
    end
  end

  [:add_ons, :discounts].each do |association|
    describe "##{association}" do
      it 'behaves like enumerable' do
        braintree_transaction = Braintree::Transaction.find('transactionid')
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(braintree_transaction)

        expect(transaction.send(association)).to respond_to(:each)
        expect(transaction.send(association).size).to eq(braintree_transaction.send(association).size)
      end
    end
  end

  describe 'validations' do
    it 'should validate amount' do
      [nil, 'abc', -1].each do |invalid_value|
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => invalid_value)
        expect(transaction).to_not be_valid
        expect(transaction.errors[:amount]).to_not be_blank
      end

      [10, 10.0, "10", "10.00"].each do |valid_value|
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => valid_value)
        transaction.valid?
        expect(transaction.errors[:amount]).to be_blank
      end
    end

    it 'should validate type' do
      ['refund', 'abc'].each do |invalid_value|
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:type => invalid_value)
        expect(transaction).to_not be_valid
        expect(transaction.errors[:type]).to_not be_blank
      end

      ['sale', 'credit'].each do |valid_value|
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:type => valid_value)
        transaction.valid?
        expect(transaction.errors[:type]).to be_blank
      end
    end

    describe 'credit card' do
      it 'is valid if new credit card with valid billing address' do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 10, :billing => address_hash, :credit_card => credit_card_hash)
        expect(transaction).to be_valid

        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 10, :credit_card => credit_card_hash)
        expect(transaction).to_not be_valid
      end

      it 'is valid if credit card is persisted' do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 10, :credit_card => BraintreeRails::CreditCard.find('credit_card_id'))
        expect(transaction).to be_valid
      end

      it 'is valid if customer has default credit card' do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 10, :customer => BraintreeRails::Customer.find('customer_id'))
        expect(transaction).to be_valid

        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 10, :customer => customer_hash)
        expect(transaction).to_not be_valid
      end

      it 'should not validate credit card if already persisted' do
        transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(OpenStruct.new(:amount => 10, :persisted? => true))
        expect(transaction).to be_valid
      end
    end
  end

  describe '#attribute_for_create' do
    it 'should default type to sale' do
      expect(BraintreeRails::Transaction.new.send(:attributes_for, :create)[:type]).to eq('sale')
    end
  end

  describe 'persistence' do
    before do
      stub_braintree_request(:post, '/transactions', :body => fixture('transaction.xml'))
    end

    it 'should create a sale transaction from existing credit card' do
      customer = BraintreeRails::Customer.find('customer_id')
      credit_card = BraintreeRails::CreditCard.find('credit_card_id')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :customer => customer, :credit_card => credit_card)

      expect(transaction.save).to eq(true)
      expect(transaction.status).to eq(Braintree::Transaction::Status::Authorized)
    end

    it 'should create a sale transaction from new credit card' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :billing => address_hash, :credit_card => credit_card_hash)
      transaction.valid?
      expect(transaction.save).to eq(true)
      expect(transaction.status).to eq(Braintree::Transaction::Status::Authorized)
    end

    it 'should clear encrypted attributes even when save failed' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => 'foo', :credit_card => credit_card_hash)
      expect(transaction.save).to eq(false)
      expect(transaction.credit_card.number).to be_blank
    end

    it 'should clear encrypted attributes after save' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :billing => address_hash, :credit_card => credit_card_hash)
      transaction.valid?
      expect(transaction.save).to eq(true)
      expect(transaction.credit_card.number).to be_blank
    end

    it 'should clear encrypted attributes' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:credit_card => credit_card_hash)
      transaction.clear_encryped_attributes
      expect(transaction.credit_card.number).to be_blank
    end

    it 'should use default credit card of customer if credit_card is not specified' do
      customer = BraintreeRails::Customer.find('customer_id')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :customer => customer)
      expect(transaction.save).to eq(true)
      expect(transaction.status).to eq(Braintree::Transaction::Status::Authorized)
    end

    it "should be able to submit_for_settlement a authorized transaction" do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      stub_braintree_request(:put, "/transactions/#{transaction.id}/submit_for_settlement", :body => fixture('transaction.xml'))
      expect(transaction.submit_for_settlement).to eq(true)
      transaction.status = Braintree::Transaction::Status::Settled
      expect(transaction.submit_for_settlement).to eq(false)
    end

    it "should be able to refund a settled transaction" do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      transaction.status = Braintree::Transaction::Status::Settled
      stub_braintree_request(:post, "/transactions/#{transaction.id}/refund", :body => fixture('transaction.xml'))
      expect(transaction.refund).to eq(true)
      transaction.status = Braintree::Transaction::Status::Authorized
      expect(transaction.refund).to eq(false)
    end

    it "should be able to void a authorized transaction" do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      stub_braintree_request(:put, "/transactions/#{transaction.id}/void", :body => fixture('transaction.xml'))
      expect(transaction.void).to eq(true)
      transaction.status = Braintree::Transaction::Status::Settled
      expect(transaction.void).to eq(false)
    end

    it 'should show errors when trying to submit already voided transaction' do
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid')
      transaction.status = Braintree::Transaction::Status::Voided
      expect(transaction.submit_for_settlement).to eq(false)
      expect(transaction.errors[:status]).to_not be_blank

      expect {transaction.submit_for_settlement!}.to raise_error(BraintreeRails::RecordInvalid)
    end

    it 'should propagate api errors to associations if any' do
      customer = BraintreeRails::Customer.find('customer_id')
      credit_card = BraintreeRails::CreditCard.find('credit_card_id')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :customer => customer, :credit_card => credit_card, :billing => address_hash, :shipping => address_hash)
      stub_braintree_request(:post, '/transactions', :status => 422, :body => fixture('transaction_error.xml'))
      transaction.save
      expect(transaction.credit_card.errors[:base][0].code).to eq("81725")
      expect(transaction.credit_card.errors[:base][0].message).to eq("Credit card must include number, payment_method_nonce, or venmo_sdk_payment_method_code.")
      expect(transaction.credit_card.errors[:base][0].to_s).to eq("Credit card must include number, payment_method_nonce, or venmo_sdk_payment_method_code.")

      expect(transaction.errors[:merchant_account_id].first.code).to eq('91577')
      expect(transaction.errors[:merchant_account_id].first.message).to eq("Merchant account does not support payment instrument.")
      expect(transaction.errors[:merchant_account_id].first.to_s).to eq("Merchant account does not support payment instrument.")

      credit_card_errors = [
        "Number Credit card type is not accepted by this merchant account.",
        "Number Credit card number is required.",
        "Credit card must include number, payment_method_nonce, or venmo_sdk_payment_method_code."
      ]
      expect(transaction.credit_card.errors.full_messages.map(&:to_s)).to eq(credit_card_errors)

      expect(transaction.billing.errors.full_messages.map(&:to_s)).to eq(["Postal code Postal code may contain no more than 9 letter or number characters."])
      expect(transaction.shipping.errors.full_messages.map(&:to_s)).to eq(["Postal code Postal code may contain no more than 9 letter or number characters."])
    end

    it 'should be able to handle gateway rejected transactions' do
      customer = BraintreeRails::Customer.find('customer_id')
      credit_card = BraintreeRails::CreditCard.find('credit_card_id')
      transaction = BraintreeRails::Transaction.new(:amount => '10.00', :customer => customer, :credit_card => credit_card, :billing => address_hash, :shipping => address_hash)
      stub_braintree_request(:post, '/transactions', :status => 422, :body => fixture('gateway_rejected.xml'))
      expect {transaction.save}.to_not raise_error
      expect(transaction.status).to eq(Braintree::Transaction::Status::GatewayRejected)
      expect(transaction.gateway_rejection_reason).to eq("application_incomplete")
    end

    it 'does not support update or destroy' do
      expect {BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid').update_attributes(:amount => 1)}.to raise_error(BraintreeRails::NotSupportedApiException)
      expect {BraintreeRails::Transaction.find('transactionid').destroy!}.to raise_error(BraintreeRails::NotSupportedApiException)
    end
  end
end

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Cousins Katrina Halili (left) and Sheena Halili are introduced in Panday Kids as warriors named Wenoa and Oxana. Sheena plays a kontrabida as well as Rob Sy and Miguel Tanfelix.
The exploits of the Panday Kids will reach new heights as new characters join the superheroes in their future adventures.
One of GMA Network's sexiest stars, Katrina Halili, joins the cast in a very special role as Wenoa, a warrior from the mystic world who will help the Panday Kids in their quest to reach the mystical cave of Talim. She is a skilled fighter and acts as one of the allies of Hadji, Charlie and Oliver.
Joining the telefantasya are Sheena Halili as Oxana, former Survivor Philippines castaway Rob Sy as Barbaro and Miguel Tanfelix as Sintoy. They are the followers of Andreas (Ryan Eigenmann) who will assist him in destroying and killing the Panday Kids. Oxana, Barbaro and Sintoy are well-armed, vicious and dangerous fighters.
All four characters bring a new level of excitement to the adventures of the main leads of Panday Kids: Julian Trono as Hadji, Sabrina Man as Charlie and Robert "Buboy" Villar as Oliver.
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Fury, protest & fatherhood
Mary Eberstadt has contributed an excellent piece on fatherhood at First Things. I say this despite her accepting aspects of liberal modernity (e.g. she is clearly a civic nationalist). What she does do, however, is to draw out an argument that I've made before at this site, namely that a father symbolically represents the larger social order, so that if the paternal relationship is absent or hostile, children are more likely to grow up to reject and act against that order.
What I particularly like about Mary Eberstadt's article is that she recognises the way that filial piety creates a tripartite loyalty, namely to one's father & family; to God & church; and to nation/patria. That is why it is unwise, say, for a church to ask for loyalty to itself whilst seeking to undermine a loyalty to patria, or for someone seeking to uphold national loyalties to attack the loyalties of individuals to their own fathers or to the churches. The three tend to stand or fall together because it is given to us, as a deeper part of our nature, to either honour the virtue of filial piety or to act against it. To put this another way, it is difficult for an individual to have a deeply developed sense of duty and fidelity in the absence of filial piety.
This is how Mary Eberstadt explains the outbreak of political violence in American cities earlier this year:
The explosive events of 2020 are but the latest eruption along a fault line running through our already unstable lives. That eruption exposes the threefold crisis of filial attachment that has beset the Western world for more than half a century. Deprived of father, Father, and patria, a critical mass of humanity has become socially dysfunctional on a scale not seen before.
I am particularly impressed by the next quote in which she directly connects the three loyalties that emanate from filial piety:
Plainly, weakened bonds in one phase are not an isolated phenomenon; they encourage weaker bonds elsewhere. Filial piety, perhaps, is like a muscle that is strengthened by different forms of exercise.
We are only beginning to understand how filial piety operates, such that loss of patriotism, loss of faith, and loss of family each seem to encourage breakdown in the other parts of the triad.
Mary Eberstadt sees the young people who lack the ordered existence that is brought into being via the father and what he represents as suffering from ressentiment. She makes a good case that this helps to explain the targets chosen by activists during the protests:
Like Edmund in King Lear, who despised his half-brother Edgar, these disinherited young are beyond furious. Like Edmund, too, they resent and envy their fellows born to an ordered paternity, those with secure attachments to family and faith and country.
That last point is critical. Their resentment is why the triply dispossessed tear down statues not only of Confederates, but of Founding Fathers and town fathers and city fathers and anything else that looks like a father, period...It is why bands of what might be called "chosen protest families" disrupt actual family meals. It is why BLM disrupts bedroom communities late at night, where real, non-chosen families are otherwise at peace.
Unsurprisingly she discovers that many of the key thinkers behind critical race theory lacked a father:
...the biographies of at least some of today's race-minded trailblazers suggest a connection between fatherlessness and identity politics. The author of the bestseller White Fragility was a child of divorce at age two. The author of the bestseller So You Want to Talk About Race reports that her father left the family and broke off contact, also when she was two. The author of another bestseller, Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race, was raised by a single mother. The author of another hot race book, The Anti-Racist: How to Start the Conversation About Race and Take Action, was raised by his grandmother. Colin Kaepernick's biological father left his mother before he was born, but he was then adopted and raised by a white family. James Baldwin, a major inspiration for today's new racialist writers, grew up with an abusive stepfather; his mother left his biological father before he was born. The list could go on.
I noted the same thing about the leaders of second wave feminism:
Germaine Greer once wrote a book entitled Daddy, We Hardly Knew You. Gloria Steinem said of her father that he "was living in California. He didn't ring up but I would get letters from him and saw him maybe twice a year." Jill Johnston wrote frequently about her missing father who never tried to contact her. Kate Millett adored her father but when she was thirteen he abandoned the family to live with a nineteen-year-old. The father of Eva Cox left the family to pursue a relationship with a pianist "leaving an embittered wife and a bewildered and rebellious daughter".
It was the same with the earlier generation of feminists. For instance, Rebecca West's father left the family when she was a girl and all three of his daughters became radical feminists, as did Rebecca's feminist friend Dora Marsden:
Dora and Rebecca shared certain searing family experiences. Dora's father had left the family when she was eight...
Mary Eberstadt's argument about the significance of fathers when it comes to wider loyalties has been made before, for instance, by Lawrence Auster:
Symbolically, the father is the structuring source of our existence, whether we are speaking of male authority, of the law, of right and wrong, of our nation, of our heritage, of our civilization, of our biological nature, of our God. All these structuring principles of human life, in their different ways, are symbolically the father. The rebellion we've discussed is...a rebellion against the father. The belief that the universe is structured, intelligible, and fundamentally good, and that one can participate in this universe - this is the experience of having a father, which is the opposite of the experience of alienation that drives contemporary culture.
The Danish historian Henrik Jensen wrote a book on the issue, The Fatherless Society, which unfortunately has never been translated. His core argument has been described as follows:
The masculine — which Henrik calls the "father" — is not simply about men as individuals but is an essential aspect of culture.
He sees it as the vertical dimension, which includes everything that human beings have looked up to, from God on high to ideals and excellence as well as the father's traditional moral authority.
That vertical dimension is the source of our higher aspirations. This upward reach needs a strong foundation of healthy human relationship — which the more horizontally inclusive world of mothering traditionally has provided. As Henrik said to me, there needs to be a balance between the two.
(If you're interested I wrote a post about Jensen describing his theory in greater detail here - it includes his ideas about the shift from a duty based culture to one based on rights and victimhood.)
I'll finish with a quote from a modern feminist, Sophie Lewis, whose desire to abolish the family is very clearly connected, as Mary Eberstadt would predict, to her terrible relationship with her own father. She does not feel filial piety but instead a fury that she has been unable to escape:
The anger and rage we might feel towards a father...is not something we can expel, once and for all, and nor does it yield a clear solution. Rage has instead to be folded into everything else we may simultaneously feel; it does not simply burn itself out.
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The failure of a leftist common good
I'd like to continue with the theme of the common good, this time giving some examples of how the leftist common good fails in practice.
But first a quick recap. This series (here and here) began with a leftist claiming that the right is individualist in contrast to the left which cares about community and the common good.
The problem with this way of seeing things is that the leftist view of the common good typically:
a) is built on an understanding of the human person as being autonomous. This "anthropology" assumes that unchosen forms of relatedness are limitations that restrict autonomous choice. Leftism is therefore dissolving of traditional forms of human community and connectedness.
b) assumes that the resulting atomised individuals can nonetheless commit to a common good by supporting state sponsored programmes which aim at inclusion or the provision of welfare or the levelling away of unchosen distinctions between people
The leftist view of the common good starts out with an individualism and ends up with a statism.
Then there is the issue of the leftist understanding of human nature. Many leftists believe that human nature is perfectible. They have the "hopeful" view that our nature has been corrupted by the existence of power structures in society. If these power structures are abolished, then our nature can be redeemed and we can live in the state of freedom and equality that is our promised land.
At first these power structures were mostly thought to be class distinctions. But the emphasis in more recent times has been on "gender", sexuality and race, with the aim being to abolish patriarchy and whiteness.
This undermines the idea of a common good existing between the members of a community. For instance, men will be thought to belong to a privileged class that exists to exploit the oppressed and victimised class of women. There is no historic complementary relationship in which the good of one sex depends on the achievement of the good of the other. There is no overarching good, such as that of family, which both men and women serve. Instead, there are competing goods set against each other. The good of men stands in a hostile relationship to that of women.
This has two negative consequences. First, instead of there being a common good, it is thought that the good of men must give way to that of women. Men are there to be allies to women. Within a leftist intersectionalist politics, the good of women ranks above that of men and is therefore the ruling good. Second, men and women are set against each other, perhaps not in terms of individual relationships, but certainly as social classes. The relationship is at least a competitive, if not a hostile, one. There is a setting apart of men and women, rather than a cooperative and complementary relationship.
What does this look like in practice? If I look through my social media feed for the past fortnight, there is no shortage of news items that illustrate these negative outcomes. For instance, it was recently International Men's Day. This is how the United Nations chose to celebrate it:
According to the United Nations men do not pursue their own good, nor a common good, but instead that of women. We are "male allies" who "support women".
And what does standing up for equality mean? Not what you might think it means. The NSW Government, for instance, announced a programme to help those made unemployed by the covid lockdowns get back to work. The Government decided, however, that help would only go to women:
Unemployed women in New South Wales can get a $5,000 boost to their bank accounts from next week.
The state budget will allocate $10million for cash grants to help get women back to work after the coronavirus pandemic saw thousands lose their jobs.
To get the money, women will have to submit an application detailing how they plan to spend it. They can get $5,000 for training and support, $3,500 for childcare, $2,000 for technology and office equipment, $500 for textbooks and $500 for transport.
Consider also the story that ran in the Daily Mail, about a recently published book written by a Frenchwoman, Pauline Harmange, and titled simply I Hate Men. The reviewer, Flora Gill, explained that whilst she did not hate the individual men in her life she agreed with Pauline Harmange that women should hate men in general:
But saying 'I hate men' is not the same as saying 'I hate all men'. Harmange admits this in a roundabout way when she talks about loving her husband.
Hating men means hating not individuals but the toxic traits taught to men and a system that is unfair to women.
So am I willing to say it now in print? To be misunderstood, misquoted and trolled for misandry? Here we go: I hate men.
This setting apart of men and women is evident enough to attract criticism, as in the following tweet:
The following tweet is particularly interesting as it recognises openly the failure of liberal modernity to preserve a common good between men and women:
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Leftism, human nature & the common good
In my last post I noted that leftists see themselves as being committed to a common good and view the right as being individualists.
I disagreed and argued that the leftist vision of a common good is built on top of an individualistic understanding of man (an individualistic anthropology). Leftists see man as an autonomous, self-defining individual, who makes his own meaning. The leftist common good consists of a commitment of these autonomous, self-creating individuals to an egalitarian welfare state. The end result is not community but extraordinary numbers of people living alone.
I'd like to extend this argument. It's easier to understand the leftist mindset if you consider the right liberal politics that leftism is reacting against. Right liberalism began with a view that politics should harness the "low" in human nature, e.g. man's selfishness and acquisitiveness, with people being left at liberty to pursue their own individual profit in the market. Does this mean that right liberals have no concept of the common good? Not entirely. Right liberals usually argue that their brand of individualism creates a spontaneous order in society; an economic and social progress; liberation from traditional "constraints"; and an uncoerced moral sphere. It's common for right liberals to point to data showing improvements in global living standards, health outcomes etc.
Again, this is not the way that traditionalists understand the common good, but you can see why leftists might feel it to be a point of difference with the "right". Left-liberals do not generally begin with the "low" as the basis of their politics. If anything, they swing too far the other way, toward the belief that human nature can be redeemed or regenerated through education or through the deconstructing of power structures in society. They have a "hopeful" (at times utopian) belief either in the innate goodness of man or in the technocratic manipulation of human nature to become whatever it needs to become.
What leftists miss is that this understanding of human nature, the assumption of perfectibility and malleability, undermines the achievement of a genuine common good, in a number of ways.
For example, if man is by nature good, but is made selfish by the existence of power structures in society, then leftists will set out to deconstruct those power structures. As we know, leftists assume that men are an oppressor group benefiting from systemic sexism in society ("patriarchy"); the same applies to white people and so on. To deconstruct these power relations, leftists claim that categories of class, race and sex are oppressive social constructs, without any legitimate basis in nature.
From this two things follow, both of which harm the common good. First, aspects of our identity which tie us to others in distinct ways come under attack. It is difficult to uphold stable forms of family life or of national identity, if manhood and womanhood are oppressive categories to be overcome, or if our culture and ethny are defined negatively. We shift further toward the mass floating particle society, in which each particle is replaceable within the system.
Second, classes within society are set against each other. If the category "men" is an artificial oppressor class, benefiting from the exploitation of women, then what common good exists between men and women? The only thing men can do, in this understanding, is to relinquish their own good in favour of that of women, which is what you sometimes hear called for (the "be an ally but without imposing yourself" idea). There is a splintering effect on society, with an intersectional politics creating a hierarchy of whose "good" gets to be considered relative to others.
The leftist view of human nature also undermines the common good by placing man outside of nature and of natural limits. If we can change who we are as men, through education or social reform or through some other technocratic process, so that we are then free to choose for ourselves how we will live in harmonious relationships with others, then the virtues of self-knowledge, of prudence and of wisdom are no longer as significant as they once were held to be. We no longer exist within a given framework, with natural ends, purposes and roles that we ignore at our peril. The world can be made as we wish it to be, as we believe it ought to be, and it is only the perverse refusal of others to go along with what we want that prevents it from being so.
It is difficult to pursue a common good from within this mindset. If I can choose anything, at any time in life, without any ill-effect on my well-being, then how can a community be ordered toward securing a common good? What happens in practice is that people fail to secure the basic goods for their own long-term well-being (in the belief that life choices either are, or should be, entirely open), and when they become unhappy, they are counselled (or medicated). Some of the trends here are alarming:
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Sweeney vows to return 'aggressiveness' to Bruins
Cam Neely spoke last month about the big, bad "identity" of the Boston Bruins, and how getting away from that identity had made them not as "tough to play against as we'd like to be."
And so it was no surprise when new general manager Don Sweeney, flanked by Neely, spoke today about getting back to that identity, in hopes of returning to the playoffs and competing for a Stanley Cup.
"We're not as far away as people may think," Sweeney said. "We have to get back, a little bit, the aggressiveness that was lost in our group."
Sweeney suggested that the Bruins, having won the Stanley Cup in 2011 and gone to the finals in 2013, had grown "stagnant" or overly "comfortable" with their mix.
Not anymore, he promised.
"There will be some changes going forward," he said. "There will be personnel changes. There will be staff member changes."
On that note, Sweeney did not commit to keeping head coach Claude Julien.
"I have some things that I want to sit down with Claude and go through in a very orderly fashion, as to where I think things need to change, and what direction we need to change as a group," said Sweeney.
"So it's just about lining up philosophical approaches that I believe in, that he believes in, and that we can move the group forward."
Sweeney, the longtime Bruins defenseman who's been in the front office since 2006, was asked about the importance of returning to the "style" that people have come to expect from the organization.
"I think it's incredibly important," he said. "It's one thing to throw the words 'culture' and 'identity' around, it's another to live it, breathe it, and teach it."
Of course, it's still another thing to assemble the players to be successful with that style.
Or any style, really.
Because the Bruins did not win the Stanley Cup in 2011 by aggression alone. To suggest they did would be to ignore the actual hockey-playing performances they received from the likes of Tim Thomas, Zdeno Chara, David Krejci, Patrice Bergeron, Milan Lucic, Brad Marchand, Dennis Seidenberg, Johnny Boychuk, Nathan Horton, Mark Recchi, and the list goes on.
That team, big and bad as it was, had a lot more than toughness going for it. An elite goalie. An elite defenseman, still in his prime. An elite two-way center. A scoring center. Depth on defense. Four lines that all contributed. Energetic youngsters. Veteran leaders. And on top of all that, the Bruins stayed relatively healthy through 25 hard-fought playoff games.
The 2014-15 roster still had some of those things. But it did not have all of those things.
Conceded Sweeney: "I think it would've taken a lot of things to fall our way for us to be in a position to challenge this year."
So…a lot of things on Sweeney's plate.
That includes throwing out the ceremonial first pitch at tonight's Boston Red Sox game.
Welcome to the spotlight.
Related: Bruins fire Chiarelli after missing playoffs


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Any fans?
http://www.gametrailers.com/player/23504.html
I think I play Madden 06 more than any other xbox game I have, I didn't bother get 07 as there weren't really any major improvements but 08 looks like it could be good…have to get my hands on a 360 at the same time though:P
I know they spent a lot of time working on the IK and their animation technology but the running animations look stiffer this time IMO, very straight-backed / a bit too upright.
And I hope the "weapon system" (never thought I'd hear that in reference to a sports game!) doesn't end up like the freestyle superstar thing in the NBA Live games that started in 06.
August 16, 2007 at 9:17 am #38031
Anyone see the X360 versus PS3 video of Madden? Just after watching it there and frankly I'm shocked at the difference. Sure you can blame the fact that they've had the PS3 dev kits for shorter length of time but seriously, there have been other ports which were just fine on the PS3 so it can't be used to justify every problem.
I saw that video last night, I was pretty stunned to see such a difference.
IIRC there's a problem with the PS3 and one / two other sports games, I think either NBA Live or the latest NBA 2k8 (?) have serious frame rate issues during certain sections of game play.
August 16, 2007 at 4:24 pm #38039
It's been a few years since I last bought a Madden game. It certainly looks like the graphics have improved greatly with the next-gen changeover. The gameplay also looks a lot more fluid. It may just be worth investing in.
Any news on whether it'll feature the now defunct NFL Europa/Europe?
Is the difference between 30fps and 60fps really that different in a sports game that also only has a few seconds of play each time?
I know EA said that it's the same in all it's other American sports games coming this August and September (except fifa 08, although soccer doesn't count as an American sport!) but really is it such a problem?
There's a simple reason that they are developing 2 years plus for the xbox 360 and the ps3 is logically going to have not as many developers being used to the format. Just wait until next year to decide.
August 18, 2007 at 10:15 am #38061
Is the difference between 30fps and 60fps really that different in a sports game that also only has a few seconds of play each time?[/quote:83f1853082]Yes, frame rate is crucial. Sports games have to be smooth and responsive at all times.
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Solar Eclipse 2017: Scientists Are Excited, Transportation Officials Nervous
KLCC | By Rachael McDonald
Published June 21, 2017 at 1:55 PM PDT
The total solar eclipse is 2 months away. Scientists shared their excitement at a NASA briefing Wednesday, but transportation officials in Oregon, and other states the eclipse will pass over, are bracing for cosmic traffic jams.
Scientists told media what they're anticipating on August 21st when the moon eclipses the sun. Angela Des Jardins, with Montana State University, says she sees the eclipse as an opportunity to bring the country together around science.
"This is a really amazing chance to just open the public's eyes to wonder. And to get people thinking about really the most amazing natural phenomenon that happens on the surface of the earth, a total solar eclipse."
Officials expect at least a million people will come to Oregon to view the eclipse. The path of totality runs from Depoe Bay on the coast to rural eastern Oregon. The Department of Transportation is urging people not to wait until the last minute to make plans. They fear state highways will be jammed with eclipse watchers on August 21st.
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Ask any adult, preferably one who sporadically visits the dentist about the cost of maintaining a healthy and happy smile and you will be left speechless at the answer. It's no secret that dental work especially on patients who have neglected their teeth could cost thousands of dollars and a bill that sadly most people can't afford. Luckily, through the partnership of Great Shape Inc. and Sandals Foundation, SaintLuciansisland-wide have been benefitting from their 1000 Smiles initiative.
Humanitarians and co-founder of Great Shape Inc.'s 1000 Smiles project Dr. Sherwin Shinn DDS and Great Shape's Executive Director Joseph Wright are on island with their team of volunteers to ensure that Saint Lucia, especially the nation's youth are able to continue lighting up rooms they enter with bright, big smiles.
It takes someone with a tremendous amount of love and appreciation for life to complete a strenuous project and not expect some form of monetary reward for the time in which they invested. The second pleasantries were exchanged and the interview started, the joys and pleasures of assisting in changing the lives of their patients around the world shone proudly on the face of Dr. Shinn or Doc as he is affectionally referred to by his peers – for the Doc who remembers handing out toothbrushes to schools and teaching the children and teachers the importance of brushing and oral care, before moving into training dental assistants and opening clinics.
As he travelled and experienced new cultures his aim is for sustainable programmesto be developed and individuals educated well enough so that they in turn take can care of themselves and their own continues to be his mantra. Even outside of the world of dentistry his, humanitarianism knows no bounds as he once helped raise funds for a young boy he met in Bolivia who was in dire need of spinal surgery. A meaningful act of going to schools in the U.S asking and eventually receiving support for the young boy became a media hot bed.
It was such selflessness that afforded him a meeting with Joseph after he heard Doc on a radio programme being interviewed about his dentistry outreach which then led to the two forming Thousand Smiles. The 1000 Smiles project whose primary focus is, teeth, has enabled many young persons to benefit from being a volunteer with the group. Success stories of young person's finding their footing in dentistry speaks volumes of the group's impact on everyday life.
The partnership with Sandals Foundation, one according to Joseph is very unique in the corporate world as he is yet to identify such a coalition that Great Shape Inc. and Sandals Foundation enjoy. He informed us that in the last fourteen years alone with the assistance of Sandals Foundation they have been able to assist over one hundred fifty thousand people. He lamented that the success of the programme lies specifically on the backbone of Sandals who has handled the media, given logistical support, room and board, and transportation, just to name a few.
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 Аґнес Мортон (; 1872—1952) — колишня британська тенісистка.
 Алан Мортон (; 1893—1971) — шотландський футболіст, фланговий півзахисник.
 Вільям Томас Грін Мортон (; 1819—1868) — американський стоматолог та хірург.
 Ганна Мортон (; 1846—1914) — друга дружина віцепрезидента Сполучених Штатів Леві Мортона.
 Гарі Мортон (, уроджений — Мортон Голдапер, ; 1924—1999) — американський стендап-комік.
 Генрі Канова Воллам Мортон (, відомий як Г. В. Мортон, ; 1892—1979) — журналіст, новатор жанру подорожньої літератури.
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 Джо Мортон (;  1947) — американський актор.
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 Конрад Вернон Мортон (, уроджений Волтер Вернон Мортон, ; 1905—1972) — американський ботанік та птеридолог.
 Лайза Мортон (;  1958) — американська сценаристка та письменниця у жанрі жахів.
 Леві Мортон (; 1824—1920) — американський політик, 22-й віце-президент США (1889—1893).
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By Callum Newman
Delta to Lock in Housing Bubble
Oh dear. The stage is set for the RBA to inflate a giant housing bubble on one front while they fight COVID on the other.
Is it just me or is history repeating? Go all the way back to 2001. The US economy fell into a mild recession at the time.
The US Fed slashed rates to 1% and held them down for over a year. Meanwhile, US housing started the surge of its bull run into the inevitable peak around 2008.
Now, what do we see today?
The response to the Delta variant has put nearly 50% of the Aussie economy into lockdown. The uncertainty around it is getting worse instead of clearer.
The state governments need to pay out more support to prop up their constituents being crushed.
That means more bonds (debt) into the market. The RBA will likely need to remain a buyer. More QE is likely coming.
And yet pinning down rates merely inflames the housing market even further.
We know from data that it's the insecure and low-paid workers hit through the lockdowns the worst.
They were never going to be speculating in housing in the first place.
Any cashed-up white-collar worker or retired boomer can still chase the market. And there are lenders everywhere prepared to give them the money.
Meanwhile, the spectre of inflation looms still.
The rational response to the current economy is to protect your cash in a hard asset like real estate, defray the interest cost as best you can, and ride the asset inflation before the consumer inflation hits.
Look at the steel market right now.
The Australian Financial Review reports that China's crackdown on steel and port bottlenecks are driving up the cost of imported steel.
This flows back into higher input costs for housing and infrastructure projects.
This dynamic is unlikely to end anytime soon.
Note that China's manoeuvre to reduce steel is not based on weak demand. On the contrary, demand is roaring.
It's an effort to reduce the appalling pollutions levels in China.
They seem to be tired of being the world's waste dump on one hand and being lectured on everything else on the other.
However, a tonne of steel not produced in China has every chance of being produced somewhere else.
We can observe this through BlueScope Steel currently.
It's already expanding its steel mill in Ohio because it's so profitable. Now the decision is whether to do it again.
Tariffs currently protect American steel. So the big margins aren't completely market based.
But the rise in steel prices globally is so prodigious there can be no doubt that the demand is there.
Most of the commentators in Australia worry about falling Chinese steel production flowing back to weak demand for Aussie iron ore.
But there's a glimpse, for those prepared to look a little further out, of a horizon when iron ore supply is too little.
After all, who expected a global steel boom now, say, three years ago? No one. But now we're in one.
All those new wind farms and electric vehicles will need millions of tonnes.
And yet Aussie miners were positioning for a world of moderation as Chinese production peaked out.
That suggests iron ore could stay weaker than otherwise for a quarter or two before heating up again.
But what does this have to do with where we began, the housing market?
A stronger-for-longer iron ore market has the potential to shower profits, dividends, and high wages across the country.
This will allow those on the receiving end to further channel the wealth into the property market…and leverage the boom even more.
This won't be a just outcome. Those on ordinary wages are going to be left far behind.
But the outlook for the resource sector — gold, iron, lithium, nickel — is just so wildly bullish.
And with interest rates at rock bottom, this cashed-up class of people will have little trouble servicing the loans.
There was once a period when Melbourne was considered the richest city in the world. It was the boom before the turn of the 20th century. What fuelled it?
The gold rush, of course!
Well, there's not just one rush coming to Western Australia, but at least three, and maybe more. The coming wealth creation is potentially gigantic.
And what will we do with it? The same as always. Spend it into land!
Strap yourselves in…this boom is going to run hotter than you expect.
Callum Newman,
Editor, The Daily Reckoning Australia
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In 2014 he co-founded the service Cycles, Trends & Forecasts with the eminent forecaster, Phillip J Anderson (also an Amazon author).
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In 2018 he founded the daily market report called Profit Watch which has now merged with The Daily Reckoning Australia. Today over 20,000 subscribers read it.
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Former HHH Fellow Ben Said: "Women's Bodies the new battlefield of Tunisian Lawmakers"
Women's Bodies the new battlefield of Tunisian Lawmakers
The Tunisian parliament will soon start debating a new set of laws regarding violence against women, proposed by the Ministry of women's affairs. Honestly, I am neither excited nor delighted. Not only because it is shameful that in 2017, we still don't have a solid legal framework to protect women and girls from violence, but also because this is the minimum I expect from our lawmakers and from a self-proclaimed "progressive government" that won the elections on the backs of the women's vote.
As an unapologetically feminist, I consider that my role is not to praise but to highlight the gaps instead. And the new law falls short of criminalizing clearly, precisely and undoubtedly the marital rape.
If you Google marital rape, you will probably find this definition: "sexual intercourse forced by a spouse on the other spouse, against that person's will". If you check oxforddictionaries.com you find "rape committed by the person to whom the victim is married".
By ignoring the reality of marital rape, the Tunisian government is sending a clear message: Women, you don't own your bodies and we won't protect you.
I was introduced to the phenomenon of marital rape trough women's stories, anecdotes and a movie. When I was 17, I went to watch "Bent Familia" ("A good girl"). There is a scene of marital rape with the husband mad at his wife when she told him to not touch her again. He said: "Don't touch me! Did you forget that you are my wife?". He then raped her, she cried. I was choked. I still remember the scene and how my stomach hurt me that day. It was an eye-opener.
I remember when I was a teen, I attended a wedding, and the day after the bride was hospitalized as she couldn't stand the intercourse forced by her husband to prove to the world that his wife is "a virgin". It was a marital rape.
Marital rape could happen in the first nights of the brides, when husbands are supposed to break the wife's hymen as a proof of women's virginity. What a humiliation to women's bodies and dignity and what an outdated belief that put women's psychological and emotional capabilities at risk. Dr. Katz and Dr. Tabisel, two diplomats in the American board of sexology founder and co-director of a New York-based women's Therapy Center, state that "although there remains a stubborn misconception that a virgin will always have an intact hymen, the truth is that most women age 20 and older do not have a hymen, or only have a partial hymen, even if they have never had any vaginal penetration. Because unlike the prepubescent and adolescent vagina, the adult vaginal tissue has been under the influence of estrogen for several years, which causes it to elasticize and expand".
When I read their book "Parting and Curtains, A women's handbook of Sex and Sexuality", I can't help but think that if our patriarchal society knew about this, that bride would not have been hospitalized and ashamed.
I know a lot of anecdotes of women hating sex because they are obliged to have intercourse against their will just to please the husband and they never have an orgasm. They hate sex but they don't call it rape, they deeply believe that it their duties to please the partners.
By signing the marriage contract, some men think that women's bodies are their properties. By accepting the social norms and interiorizing the patriarchy, most women don't challenge these assumptions. Look how our culture is obsessed by our vaginas. Everybody has a say. Some take it even further, to directly connect it with the family's honor. Look how the hymen's construction industry is flourishing in Tunisia. I even once read an article describing how some married women reconstruct their hymens "to offer" it again to their husband as a gift in the wedding anniversary.
All these examples show how the societal, political and cultural forces shape women's experiences and beliefs about their own bodies.
In the face of ignorance, government has the responsibility to protect. Anne-Marie Slaughter explains that the three responsibilities every government has towards its citizens:" The oldest and simplest justification for government is as protector: protecting citizens from violence". Women are not the sister of, the daughter of, and the wife of. Women are first of all individuals, citizens and taxpayers and they deserve to be protected sometimes even from the brother, the father and the husband.
By falling short of criminalizing marital rape, the Tunisian government thinks that it is protecting the social fabric of the society through protecting the family. This kind of law could destroy the institution of marriage would argue others. We always protect the family, the marriage institution, the society and the whole world on the backs of women. Why women have always to pay the price of this "protection"? Let's put it simple: by undermining women's rights, we are only protecting the patriarchal social structure. Our first right ever as women is to own the space that we spend our lives in: Our bodies.
I own my body. My body doesn't belong to my father, or to my husband. Neither is my family's honor and the government should protect me from the violence and not structural the violence on the name of culture or religion.
The impact of partner violence against women is well known and extensively studied. UN Women argues that "women who have been physically or sexually abused by their partners are more than twice as likely to have an abortion, almost twice as likely to experience depression, and in some regions, 1.5 times more likely to acquire HIV, as compared to women who have not experienced partner violence." Violence is expensive and presents a high cost for our society. According to UN Women, these include "costs of services to treat and support abused women and their children and to bring perpetrators to justice, costs in lost employment and productivity and the costs in human pain and suffering. The cost of intimate partner violence in the United States alone exceeds US$5.8 billion per year: US$4.1 billion is for direct medical and health care services, while productivity losses account for nearly US$1.8 billion". These costs must also be prevented.
I trust that through this debate, Members of Parliament will focus on the issues of marital rape and will not consider it as a "private issue" and therefore fail to examine the political nature of the private space.
We often measure women's empowerment by the number of women who made it to the top: CEOs, MPs, ministries, directors. But how about measuring women's emancipation by the number of women who really own their bodies? And how women are performing gender in the private space? My conviction is that the real battle for gender equality lies firstly in the private space. We will achieve gender equality the day women will have an absolute power and control over their bodies. Meanwhile, to all the misogynistic out there, and to paraphrase the Egyptian-American feminist Mona Eltahawy: "stay out of my vagina unless I want you in there".
By Ikram Ben Said – Feminist and Founder of Aswat Nisaa, (Voices of Women) A non-governmental Tunisian organization working on advancing women's political participation and advocating for gender sensitive public policies.
Crossposted from: https://www.rightsuniversal.org/womens-bodies-the-new-battlefield/
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Home > Re-Birth Project saves mother-daughter relationship
Published:Wednesday | July 2, 2014 | 12:00 AM
Jermaine Francis, Staff Reporter
THE LAST words a mother would expect to hear from her child is 'I am going to kill you'. But that was one of the threats Alafia Adams hurled at her mother during one of their fierce arguments.
Kerry-Ann Ford said the struggles to deal with her young daughter were becoming unbearable and her death threat was the last signal that they needed help to repair their broken relationship.
"She would not listen to me, no matter how much you talk to her. She just didn't care. We would argue about the simplest things, and she would shout after me, and just want to do her own thing," the young mother said.
Ford said the day Alafia first threatened her, she did not take her seriously, but then her daughter's behaviour, which included associating with the wrong company and staying out beyond curfew, fuelled her fears that something could go terribly wrong.
Teenage battles
For Alafia, like many other 15-year-old children, she had her own teenage battles dealing with, and her mother's protestations were the last thing she wanted to deal with.
"I never did interested in anything. I just feel like she wanted to stop me from living my life, and I never have any time for her or anything she said," Alafia explained.
At their wits' end, they were introduced to a project which they said, in nine weeks, was able to transform their relationship.
That intervention programme, dubbed 'The Re-Birth Project', was geared towards helping 25 'at-risk' youth attending Tivoli Gardens and Norman Manley High schools who reside in volatile areas in Kingston and St Andrew.
Developed by a team of marketing and communications specialists at the firm MC & Associates, the Re-Birth project had, at its core, the role of parental involvement in children's success.
Speaking at the project's closing ceremony, last Sunday, Melody Cammock-Gayle, co-founder of Re-Birth Project and director at MC and Associates, said the $2.2 million undertaking was only made possible through donations from corporate companies and unpaid facilitators who saw the need for such a programme.
"We now can only pray that all the actionable, practical coping strategies, helpful, valuable information and techniques will facilitate [their] successful negotiation of high-risk environments," Cammock-Gayle said about the project participants.
Alafia, a Tivoli Gardens High School student, said as a result of the lessons learnt through the project, she now recognises that the threat delivered to her mother came from a place of anger and she has now resolved those feelings.
Her mother heaped high praises on the intervention programme for saving their relationship.
"Before Re-Birth, she had no respect for me, but now I realise that we both said things that we should not have. Now, she is more obedient and I listen to her a lot more now," Ford added.
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