Comments for Innermost Parts http://innermostparts.org A blog about Brandeis University, progressive politics, and the spirit of Justice Louis Dembitz Brandeis on the campus today. Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 Comment on Stop Segregation of Restrooms! by malibu http://innermostparts.org/2011/07/29/stop-segregation-of-restrooms-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21879 malibu Tue, 08 May 2012 11:40:24 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=6814#comment-21879 I whole heartedly disagree with Nipun: what has entering into opposite gender's restroom in common with sexual haressment? Imho nothing. I don't see either a chance for someone to feel lack of privacy in this situation, 'cos we're all human so when I had to go and do my thing in the cubicle I don't bother if anyone in the next stall is male or female and I go for a bet that anyone worrying about it is anyway embarassed in this situation no matter what the gender of that person in the next stall is - they will anyway feel lack of privacy and wait for being in the restroom alone or try to do their thing with minimal sound and fumes etc. Please help me understand why pooping among all women might be less embarassing than if there'd be some men present? We don't know one another in public restroom: we go there, do what should be done and go out. We don't go there to pick up looks, show off and flirt. I often use opposite gender's restrooms 'cos I abandoned gender segregation policy concerning restrooms long ago. Sometimes I hear this mantra-phrase "you're in the wrong toilet" but respond to that: "and what's the differance I know whow to use it and I won't do anything you wouldn't do" that is a shocker sometimes - pause, thinking and often: "actually you're right - I said it in case you didn't know..." So stop saying about sexual haressment - this kind of thinking leads to the situation when all human actions related to sexual attraction or bodily functions would be percieved as falonies:  boy watching pretty lass and admiring her aloud - perv,  woman having bladder problem in the long que to female restroom goes to men's and bang - she's sexual haresser, offender, peeper, obscene perv. Just come to think of it. We the people should make oure lives easier and safer and not make simple and basic things of our daily life harder and full of dangers like being arrested for not being able to tell wheter this fancy sign on the door represents male or female figure. I whole heartedly disagree with Nipun: what has entering into opposite gender's restroom in common with sexual haressment? Imho nothing. I don't see either a chance for someone to feel lack of privacy in this situation, 'cos we're all human so when I had to go and do my thing in the cubicle I don't bother if anyone in the next stall is male or female and I go for a bet that anyone worrying about it is anyway embarassed in this situation no matter what the gender of that person in the next stall is – they will anyway feel lack of privacy and wait for being in the restroom alone or try to do their thing with minimal sound and fumes etc. Please help me understand why pooping among all women might be less embarassing than if there'd be some men present? We don't know one another in public restroom: we go there, do what should be done and go out. We don't go there to pick up looks, show off and flirt. I often use opposite gender's restrooms 'cos I abandoned gender segregation policy concerning restrooms long ago. Sometimes I hear this mantra-phrase "you're in the wrong toilet" but respond to that: "and what's the differance I know whow to use it and I won't do anything you wouldn't do" that is a shocker sometimes – pause, thinking and often: "actually you're right – I said it in case you didn't know…" So stop saying about sexual haressment – this kind of thinking leads to the situation when all human actions related to sexual attraction or bodily functions would be percieved as falonies:  boy watching pretty lass and admiring her aloud – perv,  woman having bladder problem in the long que to female restroom goes to men's and bang – she's sexual haresser, offender, peeper, obscene perv. Just come to think of it. We the people should make oure lives easier and safer and not make simple and basic things of our daily life harder and full of dangers like being arrested for not being able to tell wheter this fancy sign on the door represents male or female figure.

]]> Comment on Stop Segregation of Restrooms! by elly http://innermostparts.org/2011/07/29/stop-segregation-of-restrooms-2/comment-page-1/#comment-21873 elly Fri, 23 Mar 2012 06:00:20 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=6814#comment-21873 <p> </p> <div>"An uncaring individual might wonder why worry about the small fraction of people who face direct negative consequences from the sex segregated bathroom system. Butler eloquently responds: The suggestion that butch, fetnme, and transgendered lives are not essential referents for a refashioning of political life, and for a more just and equitable society, fails to acknowledge the violence that the otherwise gendered suffer in the public world and fails as well to recognize that embodiment denotes a contested set of norms goveming who will count as viable subjects within the sphere of politics. . . . [T]ransgendered lives have a potential and actual impact on political life at its most fundamental level, that is, who counts as human, and what norms govern the appearance of "real" humanness." -<a href="http://web.ebscohost.com.resources.library.brandeis.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ff61ea8d-51a8-42ea-ae98-fc33ad532fae%40sessionmgr14&vid=2&hid=21" rel="nofollow">http://web.ebscohost.com.resources.library.brandeis.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ff61ea8d-51a8-42ea-ae98-fc33ad532fae%40sessionmgr14&vid=2&hid=21</a></div>  

"An uncaring individual might wonder why worry about the small fraction of people who face direct negative consequences from the sex segregated bathroom system. Butler eloquently responds: The suggestion that butch, fetnme, and transgendered lives are not essential referents for a refashioning of political life, and for a more just and equitable society, fails to acknowledge the violence that the otherwise gendered suffer in the public world and fails as well to recognize that embodiment denotes a contested set of norms goveming who will count as viable subjects within the sphere of politics. . . . [T]ransgendered lives have a potential and actual impact on political life at its most fundamental level, that is, who counts as human, and what norms govern the appearance of "real" humanness." -http://web.ebscohost.com.resources.library.brandeis.edu/ehost/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=ff61ea8d-51a8-42ea-ae98-fc33ad532fae%40sessionmgr14&vid=2&hid=21
]]> Comment on Skittles: Marketing Through Racism by Joe P. http://innermostparts.org/2012/03/21/skittles-marketing-through-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-21872 Joe P. Wed, 21 Mar 2012 14:11:01 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7929#comment-21872 If the guy wasnt black you'd be calling them racist for not having enough "persons of color" in their ad campaigns... If the guy wasnt black you'd be calling them racist for not having enough "persons of color" in their ad campaigns…

]]> Comment on Skittles: Marketing Through Racism by Ollie O. http://innermostparts.org/2012/03/21/skittles-marketing-through-racism/comment-page-1/#comment-21871 Ollie O. Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:55:29 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7929#comment-21871 Really that's the best you got? You really can read race into anything. Go back on hiatus. Really that's the best you got? You really can read race into anything. Go back on hiatus.

]]> Comment on Hello from the Netherlands by Ethics Center http://innermostparts.org/2012/02/25/hello-from-the-netherlands/comment-page-1/#comment-21866 Ethics Center Mon, 27 Feb 2012 18:57:16 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7923#comment-21866 Interesting perspective from abroad! Rachel Gillette '11 researched many of these issues for the "Ethcial Inquiry" online series. See <a href="http://www.brandeis.edu/ethics/ethicalinquiry/2011/July.html" rel="nofollow">"Is There a 'Right to Die?' Philosophical, Religious, Legal and Medical Viewpoints."</a> Interesting perspective from abroad! Rachel Gillette '11 researched many of these issues for the "Ethcial Inquiry" online series. See "Is There a 'Right to Die?' Philosophical, Religious, Legal and Medical Viewpoints."

]]> Comment on Updating financial aid: What’s happening, and why the Administration is right by James http://innermostparts.org/2010/10/21/updating-financial-aid-why-the-administration-is-right-and-the-student-union-is-wrong/comment-page-1/#comment-21863 James Mon, 20 Feb 2012 23:21:37 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=4908#comment-21863 What the hell is "ze"? What the hell is "ze"?

]]> Comment on STAND BY INTERNET FREEDOM by internet freedom http://innermostparts.org/2012/01/18/stand-by-internet-freedom/comment-page-1/#comment-21746 internet freedom Wed, 18 Jan 2012 18:33:50 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7897#comment-21746 <a href="<a href="http://voteforthenet.com/" rel="nofollow">http://voteforthenet.com</a> "><img src="<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vf-Rix0ENJI/TxZsWuiIt_I/AAAAAAAAAqs/95_b-B4V9NM/s1600/NETBUG.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-vf-Rix0ENJI/TxZsWuiIt_I/AAAAAAAAAqs/95_b-B4V9NM/s1600/NETBUG.jpg</a>"></a> <a href="http://voteforthenet.com
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]]> Comment on Brandeis Kiva Group by Rebecca O. http://innermostparts.org/2008/09/10/brandeis-kiva-group/comment-page-1/#comment-21740 Rebecca O. Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:21:44 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=503#comment-21740 Hi, I'm a freshman at Brandeis this year, and I did a lot with KIVA in high school but I haven't seen anythign on campus! I realize these posts are a couple years old, so I don't know if you will see this, but I can't find any other way to contact the starters of the KIVA Brandeis team. I was wondering if anything was done on the campus to promote KIVA, and why a team was started at Brandeis, like for a class or just for fun? If anyone had any desire to reply or talk I would love the input. Thanks! Rebecca Hi,
I'm a freshman at Brandeis this year, and I did a lot with KIVA in high school but I haven't seen anythign on campus! I realize these posts are a couple years old, so I don't know if you will see this, but I can't find any other way to contact the starters of the KIVA Brandeis team. I was wondering if anything was done on the campus to promote KIVA, and why a team was started at Brandeis, like for a class or just for fun? If anyone had any desire to reply or talk I would love the input.
Thanks!
Rebecca

]]> Comment on “Brandeis Pedal Power: Amping Up Campus Events” Proposal by steven http://innermostparts.org/2011/12/09/brandeis-pedal-power-amping-up-campus-events-proposal/comment-page-1/#comment-21356 steven Sat, 10 Dec 2011 16:19:59 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7820#comment-21356 I'm all in favor of bike riding, and substituting bicycles for automobiles. Good for the environment, and the exercise is probably even better for human health.  On the other hand, you cannot say that bicycle power is "carbon-free". To the extent that you have a person pedaling and expending more effort than they would have otherwise, they are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.   I'm all in favor of bike riding, and substituting bicycles for automobiles. Good for the environment, and the exercise is probably even better for human health. 
On the other hand, you cannot say that bicycle power is "carbon-free". To the extent that you have a person pedaling and expending more effort than they would have otherwise, they are pumping carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
 

]]> Comment on Ron Paul = Ron Swanson by emmett http://innermostparts.org/2011/05/15/ron-paul-ron-swanson/comment-page-1/#comment-21353 emmett Wed, 07 Dec 2011 20:59:40 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=6400#comment-21353 i love ron swanson as a fictional and entertaining character but he is no ron paul. ron paul's ideas are not radical but constitutional. and the period of the most unregulated market in the history of man, 1830 to just before WW1, brought the world the most peace and prosperity ever recorded in human history. free markets solve problems. ron paul 2012. i love ron swanson as a fictional and entertaining character but he is no ron paul. ron paul's ideas are not radical but constitutional. and the period of the most unregulated market in the history of man, 1830 to just before WW1, brought the world the most peace and prosperity ever recorded in human history. free markets solve problems. ron paul 2012.

]]> Comment on iPhone 4 Limits Access to Information by Miranda http://innermostparts.org/2011/12/04/iphone-4-limits-access-to-information/comment-page-1/#comment-21348 Miranda Sun, 04 Dec 2011 19:00:27 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7799#comment-21348 You should read this article to get a better sense about how this is not really a political issue but an Internet search issue: http://searchengineland.com/why-siri-cant-find-abortion-clinics-103349 "It’s not because Apple is pro-life. It’s because Planned Parenthood doesn’t call itself an abortion clinic." You should read this article to get a better sense about how this is not really a political issue but an Internet search issue: http://searchengineland.com/why-siri-cant-find-abortion-clinics-103349 "It’s not because Apple is pro-life. It’s because Planned Parenthood doesn’t call itself an abortion clinic."

]]> Comment on What do you do when you see a drunk girl pushing a guy? by lara grey http://innermostparts.org/2011/11/20/what-do-you-do-when-you-see-a-drunk-girl-pushing-a-guy-at-1-a-m/comment-page-1/#comment-21302 lara grey Sun, 20 Nov 2011 14:44:45 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7779#comment-21302 It's important to take steps and not be apathetic or rely on others to do the right thing. In a college situation, I know someone who's roommate was drunk and died from it so you could be saving a life by calling police or emergency service workers. It was good that you did what you did and if it had persisted, calling the police would be appropriate. You security guard was awful.   It's important to take steps and not be apathetic or rely on others to do the right thing. In a college situation, I know someone who's roommate was drunk and died from it so you could be saving a life by calling police or emergency service workers. It was good that you did what you did and if it had persisted, calling the police would be appropriate. You security guard was awful.
 

]]> Comment on Brandeis: The 5-Year Plan by Miranda N. http://innermostparts.org/2011/11/18/brandeis-the-5-year-plan/comment-page-1/#comment-21297 Miranda N. Sat, 19 Nov 2011 01:15:46 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7776#comment-21297 What about alumni? What about alumni?

]]> Comment on Move Your Money: Bank Transfer Day by WiseFather http://innermostparts.org/2011/11/05/move-your-money/comment-page-1/#comment-21296 WiseFather Fri, 18 Nov 2011 17:41:30 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7723#comment-21296 I made a video protest recently for my blog.  It is quite funny even if you are pro-megabank.  I called my credit card's customer service line to do some negotiating.  Having a bit of leverage, I thought it presented a great opportunity to mess with them a little and make a few points about the unfairness of the credit card lending system.  Since it's a protest at home, I called it my kitchen counterstrike against Bank of America.  I think you might enjoy it. <a href="http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=508" rel="nofollow">http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=508</a> I made a video protest recently for my blog.  It is quite funny even if you are pro-megabank.  I called my credit card's customer service line to do some negotiating.  Having a bit of leverage, I thought it presented a great opportunity to mess with them a little and make a few points about the unfairness of the credit card lending system.  Since it's a protest at home, I called it my kitchen counterstrike against Bank of America.  I think you might enjoy it. http://www.ragingwisdom.com/?p=508

]]> Comment on Turkish Relief Efforts by Juliane http://innermostparts.org/2011/11/08/turkish-relief-efforts/comment-page-1/#comment-21295 Juliane Wed, 16 Nov 2011 09:02:13 +0000 http://innermostparts.org/?p=7748#comment-21295 The information on this blog is valuable. The information on this blog is valuable.

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