{"id":984,"date":"2008-02-12T19:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T19:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=984"},"modified":"2008-02-12T19:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T19:07:00","slug":"seizing-symbols-of-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=984","title":{"rendered":"Seizing Symbols of Love"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Valentine’s Day card that I bought for M. would be illegal to Saudi Arabia’s Wahabi Muslims<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It would be an acknowledgment that women are more than a necessary evil, household appliances in veils. Maybe it’s an incitement to polytheism too. Who knows?<\/p>\n

In fact “red items” are a problem<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So if I had Saudi students and marked their papers in red ink, I would be inciting lust or something?<\/p>\n

Aphrodite will not be denied<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Valentine’s Day card that I bought for M. would be illegal to Saudi Arabia’s Wahabi Muslims. It would be an acknowledgment that women are more than a necessary evil, household appliances in veils. Maybe it’s an incitement to polytheism too. Who knows? In fact “red items” are a problem. 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