Sex and Sexuality from a Handmaid's Point of View

The King of Pop and Race

Where the Gays Are

An Intro to Machiavelli, Teacher of Future Rulers
Niccolo Machiavelli was anything but a teacher of evil. His writings better characterize him as a scientist of politics taking an unbiased view of the political landscape around him. As a biologist seeks to better understand life by understanding its origins, Machiavelli looked for the origins of political life saying “different types of government developed among men by accident. “ (Discourses Bk 1, Ch. 2; Morgan, 532). He then goes into a discussion on early governments. Of these types of government, “there are of three types, which they call 'monarchy,' 'aristocracy' and 'democracy'” (Discourses Bk 1, Ch. 2; Morgan 531) yet “all states, all forms of government..

"On Liberty" and Drugs
There has been a lot of talk on the legalization of pot, lately. Fourteen American states have already legalized medical marijuana already. It raises the question on whether laws on drug use should be more lax in order to account for an individual's personal freedoms. In the essay On Liberty, M

Oppressor and Oppressed in the context of Liberty
One way I overcame oppression (as Freire defines it in Pedagogy of the Oppressed) over the weekend occurred on Facebook when I and some philosophically minded friends were debating on equality in the comment section of one of my notes. One of my older friends who happens to be gay believed that being gay or queer as she put it, was the equivalent of being abnormal and that the gay rights efforts to gain marriage equality were all apart of a greater scheme to assimilate the gay community and neutralize what she believed was once a radical, non-conforming identity. Being gay myself, I found her comments oppressive and her stance a symptom of her own oppression. She is from

Today's Poems: Love vs. Lust
I don't necessarily believe that lust and love are mutually exclusive. The two could verily well combine and bloom into passion.ODE TO A SILK DRESSI love how that dress hugs your thighs,caresses your legs ever so softlyI love how it clings to every part of youwedg

Are We Really Equal Pt. 2 - Locke vs. Freire
In John Locke's Second Treatise on Government, he argues that all men are in "a state of equality" and since we are all "born to same advantages of nature" we "should also be equal one amongst another without subordination or subjection." However, in Pedagogy of the Oppress