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The Truth About Israel and Palestine & 10 Misconceptions Preventing Peace

The Israeli Palestinian Conflict: 10 Myths Preventing Peace i love it when people try and make complicated issues more easily understood through bite size chunks of oversimplified information (sarcasm and total lack of sarcasm included). I'd rather they not be bite size chunks of propaganda, but people are biased.  i rather liked Richard Fecteau3's link to Stefan Molyneux of Freedomain Radio: 'An excellent historical primer on the situation "The truth about Israel and Palestine I usually don't like listening to Atheists talk about religion, mostly because they admittedly don't get it. It's not their bag. Nevertheless, this video is artistic and worth a gander, and the video below is an interesting listen, if anything, just for perspective. 

Why Can't She Have A Great Big Manly Heart? A Look at Misogyny, Men, Women, and Society

Why Can't She Have A Great Big Manly Heart? A Look at Misogyny, Men, Women, and Society Original Post can be found here:  http://scrip.ly/!249 I'm looking at men and women, at dating, and I'm hearing all these things that women hate about men. Men do this to them, and that to them, and men don't allow women to do this, or that. They try and tell them WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WITH THEIR BODIES, not readily accepting that YES, women in turn tell men WHAT THEY SHOULD DO WITH THEIR BODIES. There is this built up expectation on what it is to be a man, and yet a women is supposed to be able to be anything, anything her little heart desires. And even calling her heart little is demeaning to some, because why can't she have a big heart, a great BIG MANLY heart? What I wanted to analyse initially was how women reconcile being a woman in Christianity with the different cultural mores and belief systems at play between women's lib and growing up in a society where t