I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was…
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Geraldo Rivera , proving that wildly inappropriate costume-related victim-blaming is no longer restricted to woman who have been sexually assaulted.
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let’s consider an analogy: pregnancy. Only women become pregnant, as yet (obviously). So any policy that discriminates against pregnant people would affect women—most women, eventually—and not men. If you allow discrimination against pregnant people, then men can have all the biological children they want to, and only women will be penalized for it.
And yet, not once, but twice in the mid-1970s, the Court held that policies that discriminate against pregnancy don’t discriminate against women because not all women are pregnant all the time. The idea was that women who aren’t pregnant would be treated just like men, so there was no discrimination.
At some point, my outrage meter is just going to break down under the strain.
