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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 03:13 PM
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Breastfeeding and Blow Jobs (The Nation)
BLOG | Posted 06/13/2007 @ 12:09pm
Breastfeeding and Blow Jobs

Karen Houppert


Yesterday was one of those days when, having read the paper you are quite certain it is full of misprints and mistakes--either that or you've slipped down Alice's rabbit hole into a logic-free world.

Are Muslim clerics really issuing salacious fatwas by ordering Egyptian working women to breast-feed their male colleagues five times in order to "establish family ties" and to enable unmarried men and women to work together without the usual Koranic restrictions?

Are young people in this country really serving 10-year prison sentences for consensual oral sex?

I'm referring, of course, to the highly-publicized case of Genarlow Wilson who is in his second year of prison in Georgia for having received oral sex at a high school New Year's Eve party from a 15-year-old girl when he was 17. While it is true that drugs and alcohol were being used. (What?! You're kidding! At a high school party!?) It is also true that the girl never contended that it was anything but consensual.

Four others at the 2003 party, which was videotaped, pled guilty in order to serve less time. But in the 2005 trial, Wilson stated that he did not want to enter a guilty plea and spend his life registered as a sex offender--precluding him from living in the same home as his 8-year-old sister, among other things--and successfully fought a sexual assault charge. But he was found guilty of aggravated child molestation for the oral sex. This carried a 10-year-minimum sentence in Georgia. .......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.thenation.com/blogs/notion?bid=15


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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 03:22 PM
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1. The following is not a very thoughtful comment about this column, but
everytime I see this story about the men breastfeeding, I can't help but think, "WHAT ADULT IN HIS RIGHT MIND WOULD DRINK BREAST MILK FOR GOD'S SAKE???!!!!!!????" :wtf:

:puke: AND :banghead:





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mr_hat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 03:24 PM
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2. YEAH! I mean... who? Not me. Certainly not.
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Iris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 03:33 PM
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3. omg!
that stuff is vile!
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BridgeTheGap Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 01:50 PM
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6. Have you ever tried it?
Do you drink cow's milk?
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bleedingheart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 03:09 PM
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7. the adult who poured my breast milk in his coffee at work..
I had pumped it to take home to one of the little b's when they were babes...and this dipshit at work was nebshitting around the refrigerator and thought someone was hiding the coffee creamer...in a zipped black bag with a bunch of bottles (full of milk)...

Dumbass....I was rather pissed off by it and he was acting like he was going to die...

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Igel Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-13-07 08:27 PM
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4. The breastfeeding and Prophet's urine fatwas excited a bit
of news. The idiots that issued them were shown the door and the institution that employed them recanted, with great embarrassment.

Just one Muslim cleric made the breastfeeding judgment. Sadly, he (and the other loon) was at al-Azhar, a very prestigious institution. Ok, an institution was used to be prestigious--it's made some real goofs in the last 6 years. (Ok, ok, we've just noticed the real goofs in the last six years ... they've likely been making them for centuries.)
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yurbud Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-14-07 12:35 PM
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5. it would be hard to ever claim sexual harrassment in those offices. the guy could claim he was just
trying to get cream for his coffee.
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