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In this article I will discuss the romantic behavior of an Arab woman by analyzing the lyrics of two love songs and by studying the effects of such songs on both males and females.

The seventeenth-century conflict between patriarchal and liberal political thought grew out of a shift in views on the nature of man and society. Sir Robert Filmer insisted that the king ruled absolutely, the divinely ordained father of his people. Sidney, Tyrrell, and Locke grounded political power in an act of consent on the part of free-born individuals.To what extent did these changing beliefs about human nature also bring about new perspectives on the nature, role and status of women? While this aspect of political theory has usually remained unexplored, it was an important critical weapon in the battle between patriarchal and liberal thought. Patriarchal theorists, relying on the Book of Genesis, could assign women to an appropriately subordinate place in family and society. Consent theories, though, as Filmer noted, depended for consistency on the inclusion of women (as well as children) in the formation of civil society. Early liberal writers including Tyrrell and Sidney were unwilling, then, to abandon patriarchal theory in all its forms and insisted that the consent of the "promiscuous multitude" of women and children was unnecessary. John Locke never specifically dealt with the role of women in the formation of society. Thus, he seemed to have escaped some of the difficulties of finding a place for women consistent with both traditional views of female status and newer views of human nature. Where Locke did speak directly about women, he often departed from traditional views in favor of an individualist approach. Examples of this may be found in his comments on marriage, education and in his discussion of female preaching.

Rauda Morcos is a Palestinian activist who was publically outed in 2003 when Morcos agreed to be interviewed for Yediot Ahoronot. Although Morcos asked that her sexual orientation not be made a subject of or an issue in the article, the journalist referred to her as a "lesbian" in the story's bold letter headline and included a large photograph of her. As a result, in the span of a few days there was literally no one among Israel's Palestinian population who did not know who Morcos was or that she was a lesbian.