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We’re facing nothing less than a public health crisis over body image.
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Fact is, there’s nothing particularly dirty about being sexual. Sexuality is an important part of our capacity for joy as human beings, and we must stop holding it against women, particularly as more and more of us begin to live in public given the increasing role technology plays in social life. It’s sexist and unfair to hold women to different standards than men.
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Yesterday, U.S. District Judge Virginia Phillips issued an injunction immediately stopping enforcement of the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that prohibits lesbians and gay men from serving in the military. I am holding my breath hoping that the U.S. Department of Justice will do the right thing and not appeal the injunction of this 17-year-old policy of state sanctioned discrimination.
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Many of us have seen the numerous LGBT suicide stories in the news recently — the most high-profile being the tragic death of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi. A college freshman, Clementi completed suicide by jumping off the George Washington Bridge after his roommate secretly recorded his sexual encounter with another male and streamed it live on the internet. These news stories, however, highlight but a few of the many LGBT youths who have died by suicide as a result of anti-gay harassment, bullying and social homophobia.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Sept. 14 addressed the failure of law enforcement to report, investigate and handle rape cases with “compassion and transparency.”
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