Holly Hunter is odd and fascinating as an American self - help guru in a makeshift commune
of damaged women, and David Wenham is unreliable as the closest thing this community has to an enlightened authority figure, and it's not very close.
A recent report by Women for Refugee Women painted a bleak picture
of damaged women being driven to suicide and self - harm by detention.
It's a down - to - earth tale
of a damaged woman with something to prove to herself, told in an interesting way.
Part psychological drama and part crime thriller, this warped love story leverages its disturbing plot into a mesmerizing and nerve - wracking portrait
of a damaged woman forced to reckon with her true nature.
Not exact matches
«But every assault should be taken care
of in a court
of law, and to accuse — no matter who it is, a man or a
woman — without evidence, it's
damaging and it's unfair.»
In the past couple
of years, Sanders has voted against the Keystone XL Pipeline, vetoed by the president in March, as well as for bills that would have prohibited corporate interference with
women's health care and increased environmental standards for
damaged national infrastructure.
For
women who are born without a uterus, have one that is
damaged, or have had it removed, implanting a healthy uterus from a dead or living donor offers the possibility
of getting pregnant and giving birth.
But it's equally easy to suppose Thiel hopes Trump will
damage the institution corrupted by the country's enfranchisement
of women in 1920.)
After all, there is but one man in most polygamy cases, and the sterilization
of a man is cheaper and less physically
damaging for a man than it is for a
woman.
The Southwest Airlines pilot being lauded as a hero in a harrowing emergency landing after a passenger was partially blown out
of the jet's
damaged fuselage is also being hailed for her pioneering role in a career where she has been one
of the few
women at the controls.
Causing the death
of an unborn child is in the Bible, for in the Bible at Exodus 21, it says that «in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant
woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have
damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner
of the
woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices.
Shrapnel hit the plane and passengers said they had to rescue a
woman who was being blown out
of a
damaged window.
For a
woman to be abusive
of power in such a way and cause deep and lasting
damage because she can is fully justified as being called petty.
In such cases,
women are left with the choice to adopt a Machiavellian concept
of feminism, where as long as we achieve our personal end goals, the
damage we do to ourselves and to others is just collateral.
On Sunday, let us remember slavery, the Trail
of Tears, Jim Crowe, abortion, «collateral
damage,» torture, Japanese internment, and the hundreds
of thousands
of men,
women, and children who have lost their lives to acts
of war.
The consequences
of this
damaging theology are legion but lately I've been reminded afresh just how much
of a price
women pay when they are kept powerless.
It is
damaging to the image
of God carried in
women and in men.
The psychological
damage done to the
women who made the mistake
of having an abortion is staggering.
If he can just get those
of the weak and thoughtless minds to concentrate on gay people and not on his distorted unemployment statistics, pay - offs to his union buddies, economy collapsing debt, bullying
of the American businessman /
woman, ever - lavish spending wife (our money, not theirs), and a debacle
of a healthcare plan, then maybe, maybe he might just get elected again so that he can do even more
damage than he has already wrought.
I am learning that I can not teach christian theology constructively unless I am aware that, historically, the church has done much to
damage women, Jews, people
of color and the whole inhabited earth; and unless, as a christian, I am learning how our doctrine, discipline and worship continue to reflect and contribute to this abuse
of power.
8 With respect to those who refuse to accept Castilian sovereignty and the Christian faith the document includes this clause: «If you do not do it... with the help
of God I will use all my power against you and will battle you everywhere and in every possible way, and you will be subject to the yoke and obedience
of the Church and their Highnesses, and I will take your people and your
women and children, and make them slaves, and as much I will send them, and I will inflict on you all the harm and
damage possible.»
And they represent ways in which, under given conditions and in given circumstances, men and
women have felt that they were «saved» from what dragged them down and
damaged their lives, and that they were being drawn as they responded in commitment
of self to the action
of God in Jesus Christ.
God might use this severe
damage to give men and
women work to earn their way back to «normal» and accomplish more than pompus Obama and the Democratic Congress did with their TARP money that has had little effect on our economy other than lining the pockets
of some crooks with our tax money.
God might use this severe
damage to give men and
women work to earn their way back to «normal» and accomplish more than Obama and the Democratic Congress did with their TARP money that has had little effect on our economy other than lining the pockets
of some crooks with our tax money.
In the case
of abortion, the obstacles will often be overcome by factual information about the peaceful, compassionate work
of pro-life groups, the
damage done to
women by abortion, the increasing information on the life
of the child in the womb.
Though the chapter on how God values
women was worthwhile reading, the
damage done by every other chapter in the book to the Gospel, to the character
of God, and to the witness
of the church in this world makes this book not worth reading.
They speak
of church cultures that treated
women's bodies as inherently problematic and seductive, that assigned a
woman's worth to her sexual purity or procreative prowess, that questioned
women's ability to think rationally or make decisions without the leadership
of men, that blamed victims
of sexual abuse for inviting the abuse or tempting the abuser, that shamed
women who did not «joyfully submit» to their husband and find contentment in their roles as helpers and homemakers, and that effectively silenced victims
of abuse by telling
women and children that reporting the crime would reflect poorly on the church and thus
damage the reputation
of Christ.
Ignoring rape
damages men as well, not just because men also get raped (though
of course they do) but because
women who are raped are someone's daughter, sister, wife or friend, and their pain is going to hurt the people who love them too.
For me, as a married man, indulging in any porn, including glossy pages
of tan
women in bikinis, can be
damaging.
Gestalt therapy can help
women repair the
damage of sexism in their lives by enabling them to stop giving their power away to men and to sexist institutional practices.
When those involved in pastoral care do not know how to recognize the realities
of violence toward
women, they foster further
damage and violence.
The «collateral
damage» — that awful, cold term for those that are caught in the crossfire, the
women, the children — is sacred, each life precious in the eyes
of God.
This is the
damage done to the nature
of man and
woman, and to the nature
of marriage.
Although mainstream psychiatry is fairly sceptical, an increasing number within the profession acknowledge the
damaging effect
of abortion on mental health and maintain that the symptoms relating to post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are commonly identified in the assessment
of post-abortive
women.
A telling illustration
of very real
damage is the case
of a Nevada
woman, a Ms Julie Engle.
This message is
damaging to the healthiest
of women, but for
women like me who sometimes physically can't even have sex because
of pain, it just adds to an already growing mountain
of guilt and shame.
Jesus referred him to the classes
of those who customarily didn't want to marry or couldn't marry - monks (for the sake
of the kingdom
of heaven - men
damaged by the practice
of making eunuchs for use as governmental servants (Egypt generally) and the class
of people who «from their mother's womb «are not suited (for
women?)
Jesus referred him to the classes
of people whp either couldn't or didn't want to be married — those who were monks for the sake
of the kingdom
of heaven - those who were
damaged by others such as eunuchs made to serve the governmemt in Egypt mainly — and those who were eunuchs, had no incliination (to
woman?)
More than 600 men and
women stormed a baptismal services
of the Nachalat Yeshua congregation in Beersheba in 2005, attacking church goers and
damaging property.
Most Americans probably support the implicit moral position
of mainstream Protestantism and perhaps
of America's religious traditions in general: permit as few legal abortions as possible without
damaging women's rights and without making it necessary for
women to perform abortions on themselves or seek clandestine and possibly dangerous abortions.
A November 1982 Yankelovich poll
of Catholic
women shows that fewer than one - fifth would call abortion morally wrong if a
woman has been raped, if her health is at risk, or if she is carrying a genetically
damaged fetus.
I critique the ideas
of John Piper, as he should expect and invite, because he represents a role model among Christians, including men, because I think his ideas about
women are
damaging.
We've spoken in the past about the harmful effects
of a shame - based purity culture that treats
women (and men) who have had sex before marriage as «
damaged goods.»
As I pointed out in my initial post, even a smaller
woman can do plenty
of damage.
So, you jaded men on this thread, not all middle - age
women are cynics, and
damaged and, I can't speak for others, but I need you around for the laughs, the adventures and, simply, because we are all in this strange and wonderful battleground
of life together.
I think it's fantastic if you do, but those essays can actually be kind
of damaging to
women who are in a fragile emotional state after the birth
of their kids.
If anyone has any doubts, you can read over 100 comments - the majority
of them from
women who have been
damaged in one way (or many) by C - sections.
I wonder... for homebirths where the baby (god - fobid) died, or the baby is brain
damaged, what percentage
of those
women choose to do a homebirth again?
It's good that medical care and trained professionals now exist and give mums the option and ability to take advantage
of the medical care, but to do a complete U-turn so that ALL
women should be forced to have medicalised births attended by midwives or doctors, is
damaging and unfair.
For a
woman who, for whatever reason, can not breastfeed, it can be very
damaging to judge her - even the formula tin extols in large letters the virtues
of breastfeeding - «Breastmilk is best for your baby» it declares.