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by cheesecake ice cream
Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:58 am
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56581 Divine purpose of women
Replies: 62
Views: 31195

Everyone: Being a stay at home mom is fantastic. So is balancing career and family. Vorpal: That sentence was unfair. I assumed things because she is conservative. I don’t listen to her because I don’t like her. To me, it’s sexist to force women to be stay-at-home moms if they don’t want to ...
by cheesecake ice cream
Thu Mar 18, 2010 4:20 pm
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56581 Divine purpose of women
Replies: 62
Views: 31195

I’m sorry that I disappeared like that. Life got a little crazy, and I got depressed. I have a lot of thoughts written down about the other thread, so I promise that I’ll have a response up soon :D . I majored in psychology, minored in philosophy, and took Intro to Social Work and the infamous S...
by cheesecake ice cream
Thu Mar 18, 2010 10:43 am
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56581 Divine purpose of women
Replies: 62
Views: 31195

I’m sorry if I went on a tangent. I personally thought it was relevant to everything. I didn’t mean it to be inflammatory either. I think it’s impossible to express those thoughts without appearing inflammatory. I feel like what some may call divine attributes of women are sometimes just cultu...
by cheesecake ice cream
Wed Mar 17, 2010 11:02 pm
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56581 Divine purpose of women
Replies: 62
Views: 31195

Race and sex matter. It may sound counterintuitive, but a color-blind society is racist, just as a sex-blind society is sexist (if you ignore the influence of class and beliefs about gender roles). Minorities don’t have lower achievement scores on standardized tests because they’re naturally inf...
by cheesecake ice cream
Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:59 pm
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56108 Government programs to help the poor
Replies: 64
Views: 18483

Thanks for the warm welcome. :D I am a little stunned, to say the least, and I don’t think I’m giving capitalism a bum rap at all. I’m telling it like it is. Pure capitalism is inherently coercive because it gives people the de facto right to own other people. Technically, under your hypotheti...
by cheesecake ice cream
Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:24 am
Forum: Reader Response
Topic: #56108 Government programs to help the poor
Replies: 64
Views: 18483

First of all, this is my first time posting on here! So exciting! Vorpal, while I was at work I had some thoughts I wanted to share with you: You talk about capitalism like it aligns perfectly with God’s gift of agency, but capitalism is inherently coercive, not agentic. Pure, unbridled capitalism...