Niall Ferguson So, just as I’m finishing reading comedian Jen Kirkman’s book I Can Barely Take Care of Myself: Tales […]
relationships, sexuality
Why do we laugh at sexist jokes?
Post about stereotyping, clichethinking gets stereotyped,cliched image Let’s say you view love as a battlefield. Okay, more like a football […]
civil rights, immigration
America: lousiest host ever
Okay, here’s the deal. How it should be. If you’re in the United States for reasons beyond your control– that […]
religion, sexuality
A bit of mulling over
Following up on Sunday’s post, I can’t help but keep returning mentally to Dr. Darrel Ray’s talk at Skeptics of […]
feminism, sexuality
The miseducation of Katelyn Campbell
Katelyn Campbell Recently in West Virginia, a teenager objected to a particularly obviously problematic form of abstinence-only education. Wait, let me […]
Uncategorized
Repost: cultural relativism
Cultural relativism: a moral standard that which maintains that cultural norms are good simply because they are cultural norms, and […]
atheism, religion
Will the real Islamophobes please stand up?
Richard Dawkins in a still from The Root of All Evil? No, you don’t have to have read the Qur’an to have […]
feminism, LGBT, religion
The most concise explanation of how marriage equality threatens the institution of marriage
…comes from James Sweet, in a comment on Dispatches: For some people, marriage is still an institution that is defined […]
feminism, LGBT
10 ways the opposition to gay marriage insults all of us
What I didn’t mention in the previous post about the purpose of marriage, because I intended to discuss it in […]
Forward Thinking, relationships, sexuality
Forward Thinking: What is the purpose of marriage?
Libby Anne and Dan Finke at Patheos have started a project called Forward Thinking, which is a series of questions they put to bloggers […]