We upgraded to a very expensive unlimited cable intarwebs package, but I need it for my side business, which is designing embroidery patterns (need to send large pdfs, and such).

When I look at the religious right in the US and how they desire to severely curtail women’s rights, I don’t understand how they can claim that Christian “values” are better with a straight face. The hypocrisy, it burns.

As for “the distinction between crime and private behavior has been erased” — I didn’t see this as a defense of spousal rape or abuse, it seems to me to be a bit of a stretch — maybe it’s a cultural thing.

Maybe thinking about the concept in depth is new to you, so you’ve not been aware of it? I had a police officer – a self-described ‘progressive’ and fan of a prominent feminist politician – tell me to my face a mere couple of weeks ago that he wishes he wouldn’t ever have to do a “domestic” again, so he could focus on “real crime”. His words, not my paraphrase; and a disgustingly popular point of view.