Hey Gals, Check This Out
Our oppressive Western civilization, undergirded as it is by a patriarchal military industrial complex that suppresses and perverts women's unique and peaceful ways of knowing and being, has produced another stunning act of patriarchy:
Fighter jocks are what the Air Force is all about. Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter. There are two types of people in the Air Force: fighter pilots and everyone else. The path to the highest levels of command begins with a turn as fighter squadron commander, and the first ever female to attain that exalted status has just been named.
Meanwhile, the Islam expert over at ArabNews fields a difficult question about whether or providing a woman with medical aid (or, really, shaking her hand) makes a man unclean and in need of cleansing:
Q: When a doctor examines his patients, he unavoidably touches patients of the opposite sex. Does this invalidate his ablution?
A: Scholars differ as to whether skin-to-skin contact with a person of the opposite sex invalidates ablution, or wudhu... As for other women, including his wife, the stricter view is that any such contact renders the ablution invalid, even when the contact is unintentional... The view I feel to be more accurate is that such casual contact invalidates wudhu if it is associated with feelings of sexual nature. Casual contact, such as when giving something to a woman, does not invalidate ablution. But deliberate contact, particularly when extended, as in the case when a man shakes hands with a woman and continues to hold her hand longer than normal in such cases, requires a fresh ablution.
Note that holding a woman's hand "longer than normal" counts as "sexual." Charming. Maybe we can send our newly minted female fighter pilot out to introduce herself to their men. She wouldn't even have to offend their sensibilities by touching them - she can take care of all the necessary introductions from 15,000 feet.
(The first link is via: Prof. Dauber, who is, unlike me, done for the semester).
Fighter jocks are what the Air Force is all about. Argue otherwise if you please, it doesn't matter. There are two types of people in the Air Force: fighter pilots and everyone else. The path to the highest levels of command begins with a turn as fighter squadron commander, and the first ever female to attain that exalted status has just been named.
Meanwhile, the Islam expert over at ArabNews fields a difficult question about whether or providing a woman with medical aid (or, really, shaking her hand) makes a man unclean and in need of cleansing:
Q: When a doctor examines his patients, he unavoidably touches patients of the opposite sex. Does this invalidate his ablution?
A: Scholars differ as to whether skin-to-skin contact with a person of the opposite sex invalidates ablution, or wudhu... As for other women, including his wife, the stricter view is that any such contact renders the ablution invalid, even when the contact is unintentional... The view I feel to be more accurate is that such casual contact invalidates wudhu if it is associated with feelings of sexual nature. Casual contact, such as when giving something to a woman, does not invalidate ablution. But deliberate contact, particularly when extended, as in the case when a man shakes hands with a woman and continues to hold her hand longer than normal in such cases, requires a fresh ablution.
Note that holding a woman's hand "longer than normal" counts as "sexual." Charming. Maybe we can send our newly minted female fighter pilot out to introduce herself to their men. She wouldn't even have to offend their sensibilities by touching them - she can take care of all the necessary introductions from 15,000 feet.
(The first link is via: Prof. Dauber, who is, unlike me, done for the semester).
