re: #198 SanFranciscoZionist

I have a pet peeve about people who talk about how important a U.S. presence in Afghanistan is—to help the women oppressed by the Taliban.

We didn’t give a good goddamn about the women of Afghanistan until 9/11. And yes, feminist groups did. I was on their mailing lists. But we went nowhere until it was a matter of US national interest.

I can deal with that, just don’t tell me we had to go to save the little girls who want to go to school. They would have grown old and died of childbearing at 30 if we hadn’t found a sudden vested interest in that corner of the world.

How about a 31 year old African-American woman who already has 15 children and was evicted from her apartment for having too many children there and who after becoming “homeless,” they were not homeless they were in a hotel, child services swarmed her and then was sent to jail because she refused to answer a judge as to whether or not she was pregnant again and if so who the possible father was.

(I still have a very hard time with the math, I’m not trying to sound sexist or anything but…31 years old and apparently pregnant for the 16th time? My God!)