{"id":103862,"date":"2016-08-18T09:03:42","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T17:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103862"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:26:54","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T18:26:54","slug":"many-women-lack-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103862","title":{"rendered":"Many Women Lack Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many women make excuses for their bad choices, including in sex. &#8220;He was so charismatic, I couldn&#8217;t say no to him&#8221; is a common one.<\/p>\n<p>If a woman won&#8217;t take responsibility for whom she goes to bed with, she lacks agency (the power to make decisions and take the consequences).<\/p>\n<p>In Orthodox Judaism, a woman&#8217;s father or husband has the right to revoke her vows. Women also are not counted as witnesses in Jewish law.<\/p>\n<p>For women, everything gets transposed and framed in terms of their lives and personal needs.<\/p>\n<p>I remember arguing with a woman in 2000 about the election.  She favored Gore because Bush reminded her of someone who was mean to her when she was growing up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many women make excuses for their bad choices, including in sex. &#8220;He was so charismatic, I couldn&#8217;t say no to him&#8221; is a common one. If a woman won&#8217;t take responsibility for whom she goes to bed with, she lacks &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=103862\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[142],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-feminism"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103862","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103862"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127322,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103862\/revisions\/127322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}