Category: Uncommon Ground

What is Our Moral Responsibility Towards Animals?

January 14, 2021 | by | 1 Comments
As humans we have the power to affect the lives of entire species of animals. What moral responsibilities do we have towards them? Animals cannot be held morally responsible for their actions. However, that does not mean that they don’t have moral worth. In fact, it is reasonable to infer that we, as rational beings, […] Read more

India’s Anti ‘Love-Jihad’ Law – Regressive and Misogynist

January 11, 2021 | by | 0 Comments
The paranoia among India’s Hindu Right about ‘Love Jihad’ reflects age old patriarchal notions of women as the property of men. The planter class which had entrusted its wives and daughters to male slaves when the masters went off to fight the Civil War was now in near hysterics over the slightest interaction between white […] Read more

Clark v. State Public Charter School Authority, et al.

January 8, 2021 | by | 0 Comments
The full PDF of the Clark v. State federal lawsuit is available for download here. Clark-v.-Nevada-Complaint-12-22-2020 This is a U.S. federal lawsuit alleging that a school and related entities violated a high school student’s and his mother’s First and Fourteenth Amendment rights to speech and privacy (among other claims) by requiring the student to publicly […] Read more

Misery in Myanmar for Rohingya Refugees

December 28, 2020 | by | 0 Comments
The Rohingya people are enduring brutal persecution by the state in Myanmar. The international community must make a stand. Described by UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres as ‘one of, if not the most discriminated people in the world’, the Rohingya ethnic group are enduring unthinkable persecution at the hands of the Myanmar state. A predominantly Muslim ethnic group […] Read more

AGP Males and Domestic Abuse, Part IV: Sissyfication and Submissive ‘Women’

December 16, 2020 | by | 3 Comments
Unpacking the connection between autogynephilia and sissyfication. Warning: this article may not be suitable for readers with weak stomachs. As Catharine MacKinnon has argued ‘Fantasy expresses ideology, [it]is not exempt from it’.1 AGP sissyfication fantasy tells us what they think of women: that women exist to be dominated, used, abused, forced, and penetrated. Can you imagine […] Read more