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Category Archives: Feminism
Vatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26, 2011 – 3:12 pmSickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
Sexism And Sensitivity
February 13, 2011 – 1:07 pmSo, a couple of weeks ago, was American Atheists’ Southeast Regional Atheist Meet and during the conference there was a talk that rubbed some of the women at the conference as sexist. Then at a panel discussion, of which there is video footage below which you can view for yourself, a woman complained about the [...]
Republican Legislator In Wyoming Recounts Circumstances Of Her Abortion
February 9, 2011 – 12:01 amRachel Maddow covers the remarkable story about Wyoming State Representatives Lisa Shepperson and Sue Wallis making a small government conservatism argument against a paternalistic proposed abortion law: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Wallis is the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 1. More about her can be [...]
Reddit’s Chauvinistic Atheists
February 3, 2011 – 10:16 pmThere are few more prominent and thriving online atheist communities than the Reddit’s atheism subreddit. So it’s especially disgraceful and embarrassing to me to see so many of these atheist redditters prove they have more testosterone than brains. Jen McCreight, the committed, inventive, and inspiringly effective atheist activist, biology graduate student, contributor to The Atheist’s [...]
Anonymous Was A Woman
January 30, 2011 – 9:16 pmFor all feminists and sticklers for proper quote attribution alike, the Yale Alumni Magazine has a wonderful must-read article setting the record straight on the real women who wrote famous lines either falsely attributed to men or long attribute to “anonymous”. (Virginia Woolf wrote that she “would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so [...]
The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11, 2011 – 6:24 pmOn Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
France To Ban Burqa-Like Veils
July 13, 2010 – 1:42 pmEuroNews.net writes: A law banning the wearing of a full Islamic veil in public in France has been adopted by the lower house of parliament. The ruling UMP and the New Centre party voted for the ban on the burqa or niqab while the Socialists, Communists and Greens abstained. The law goes to the upper house in [...]
Love, Polygamy, And Arranged Marriage In The Tanzanian Maasai Tribe
July 13, 2010 – 6:55 amCultural variation is amazing: Your Thoughts?
Louisiana To Require Ultrasounds Before Abortions
June 18, 2010 – 5:40 pmIt was a unanimous 79-0 vote: Women seeking abortions in Louisiana will be required to get an ultrasound first, even if they are a victim of rape or incest, under a bill that received final legislative passage Wednesday. The bill by Democratic state Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge was sent to the governor’s desk [...]
Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5, 2010 – 1:01 pmDiana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
Daily Hilarity: Best Of Sarah Haskins’s "Target Women"
June 3, 2010 – 4:30 pmSarah Haskins always provides the most hilarious and incisive commentary tearing into the lousy logic and vapid condescension packed into advertisements targeted at women on her recurring Infomania segment called Target Women. Her dry witted satirical media criticism would be a perfect fit on The Daily Show and in logic classes. Every time I watch one of [...]
Tony Blair On Our Allies Who Live Within Theocracies
June 2, 2010 – 5:00 amMichael Shermer got the chance to ask Tony Blair how we spread various central Western ideals of democracy, education, civil liberties, equality, etc. in hostile theocratic countries without resorting to military force. Part of Blair’s answer: “It’s one of the great myths perpetrated in our own societies is that somehow people who live in oppressive [...]
American Academy Of Pediatrics Reverses Support For Female Circumcision "Compromise"
June 1, 2010 – 4:21 pmThe American Academy of Pediatrics had proposed permitting American doctors to ritually “nick” the clitorises of girls whose parents want to maintain their customs in America. The thinking was that this compromise would prevent such parents from going underground to have a fuller mutilation of the clitoris carried out instead. Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that [...]
Marriage As Rooted In Pre-Social Goods And As Having Radical Potential
June 1, 2010 – 1:15 pmCourtney at Feministing is quite skeptical of marriage but characterizes Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) as making a relatively compelling case for “the radical potential to be found in the privacy of the family unit” in her new memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage: [Gilbert] writes, “It is not we as individuals, [...]
Women’s Ordination: Another Route To Automatic Excommunication
May 21, 2010 – 8:09 amNot only does approving an abortion necessary to save a woman’s life in a case where her fetus would die in either case get you automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, but so does seeking ordination while being female. Lifelong Catholic Janine Denomme this week was denied a Roman Catholic burial for having the [...]
Saudi Girls Pepper Spray Religious Enforcers
May 19, 2010 – 12:40 pmOn the heals of the story we highlighted the other day in which a Saudi Woman attacked a member of the Saudi Commision for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for harassing her over her clothing, Ashaq Al-Awsat reports another heartening incident along the same lines: Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat- Members of Khobar’s Commission [...]
RapeAway!™
May 19, 2010 – 11:37 amPharyngula profiled this Egyptian ad last week, which advised women to veil themselves using an illustration: In response, BewareTheLizards42 has unveiled a new product: Your Thoughts?
Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving Abortion
May 18, 2010 – 8:27 pmIn reply to my post on the story of Sister Margaret McBride whom the Catholic Church “automatically excommunicated” for helping to give the go-ahead to an abortion claimed necessary for saving the life of an 11 week pregnant mother, I have already received two interesting replies. The first challenged the medical argument for the necessity of [...]
Saudi Woman Beats Up "Virtue Cop"
May 17, 2010 – 7:43 pmThe Jerusalem Post reports: When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition. But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping. A member of the Commission for the [...]
Are Legal Burqas A Security Risk?
May 8, 2010 – 4:19 pmNow in Australia, a senator is making this argument: Tasneem Chopra comes off most impressive. Your Thoughts?
Poisoned For Going To School?
April 26, 2010 – 8:50 amFirst it was malicious misogynists attacking Afghani school-going girls with acid in their faces, now it appears they’re being poisoned: Local doctors suggested the Taliban may be the perpetrators of possible poison attacks. At least 88 girls and teachers became ill in separate cases at three girls’ schools. The cause of the illnesses was not known, [...]
Daily Hilarity: Sarah Haskins On What She Learned Watching Ads All Year
January 5, 2010 – 12:29 pmHilarious and insightful as usual, Sarah Haskins looks back at 2009 in commercials targeted at women: [ Your Thoughts?
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