this, brought to our attention by lisa, is interesting. and it's worth saying that, like the whole of the american left, feminism has mutated from an assertion of individual rights and a vision of individual liberation into a collectivist discourse (which always proceeds in terms of rules and restrictions accomplished by coercion). but the original impulse of american feminism, as expressed by figures such as elizabeth cady stanton, lucretia mott, susan b. anthony, voltairine de cleyre, emerged from the same world that produced radical abolitionism and the american peace movement: a discourse of liberty and self-sovereignty, and the idea that a husband can't own a wife any more than a white person can own a black person. (stanton: "We ask no more than the poor devils in the scripture asked, 'Let us alone.' In mercy, let us take care of ourselves, our property, our children, and our homes.')

i think one thing we should say, however, is that if yale males are out there chanting 'no means yes and yes means anal,' you're well within your rights to stage a counter-march and to confront them with their stupidity and extreme wrongness, or to ask them how they'd feel about having such notions applied to themselves, by other men, say. oh no! bruno!

that there is country music. the arrangement is based on billy sherrill's work with tammy wynette.