Actually, the "safety" issue was all the evidence she gave. And I recommend you speak to third_base (who's my height but about 40 lbs. thinner) about the technique she used to use to get football players off of fields. Or full grown men out of wrecked cars, for that matter.
As for the social experiment aspect of it, letting us vote and work outside the home was an experiment. Letting us into universities and practice medicine was an experiment. Women becoming able to hold public office has been an experiment. And that's just women: don't get me started on the social experiments involving other races and the disabled. My point is that social experiment is not a dirty word, and I really wish people would stop using it as such.
And you really don't want to get the pregnant lady started on the forced abortions in China. Or, hell, the foot-binding in China that went on as recently as 20 years ago in the backwaters. Would you like to see the paper I wrote on genital mutilation legislation that had to be passed in NYS because it was slipping through elective surgery loopholes? How about 13 year old girls being raped by their cousins by way of a forced marriage, not in some third world country, but right here in our own state of Utah.
I know plenty, but these days, between the nausea and the tiredness and the work and the school, I'm constrained to flybys.
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Re: Oops, I'm commenting, this can't end well
Date: 2007-10-04 03:22 am (UTC)From:As for the social experiment aspect of it, letting us vote and work outside the home was an experiment. Letting us into universities and practice medicine was an experiment. Women becoming able to hold public office has been an experiment. And that's just women: don't get me started on the social experiments involving other races and the disabled. My point is that social experiment is not a dirty word, and I really wish people would stop using it as such.
And you really don't want to get the pregnant lady started on the forced abortions in China. Or, hell, the foot-binding in China that went on as recently as 20 years ago in the backwaters. Would you like to see the paper I wrote on genital mutilation legislation that had to be passed in NYS because it was slipping through elective surgery loopholes? How about 13 year old girls being raped by their cousins by way of a forced marriage, not in some third world country, but right here in our own state of Utah.
I know plenty, but these days, between the nausea and the tiredness and the work and the school, I'm constrained to flybys.