Recent Blog Posts
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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 to encourage them to think productively. The replies to these questions are then rounded up and a new prompt posted. This is my second crack at it. The first can be found here. This round’s…
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Further adventures in abusing the notion of respect
Previously I wrote about how it’s incorrect to say that you respect women if that respect is contingent on their dressing and behaving according to your notions of modesty. It’s also incorrect to say that you respect people while maintaining that for them to have children is “child abuse”: Francis is still a conservative choice,…
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Shame, sexism, and soft bigotry
So last month I wrote about the difference between the feelings of guilt and shame, and what they address. I noted that they’re not synonymous, actually work quite differently, and that one is far more productive than the other– that, actually, one may be necessary (albeit sometimes incorrectly applied) while the other is almost always…
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Look at you, all flaunting your autonomy
Women are not entitled to respect when they walk around without a [hijab]. They are to blame for it when they are attacked. said an imam from Denmark, Shahid Mehdi, who was arrested in Malmo, Sweden for reportedly exposing himself to a woman in a park. When I read about this, I sarcastically asked if the…
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Demystifying “premarital”
Sex advice show Savage U (hated by Idaho legislators) As Idaho lawmakers take a symbolic stand (was there ever was a more useless stand, or a more wasteful use of taxpayer money?) against premarital sex by “urging the Federal government and the FCC to prohibit the portrayal, even implied, or even the discussion of premarital…
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Thoughts on the first Tropes vs. Women video
So the first Feminist Frequency Tropes vs. Women video has been posted, and I was very excited to see it. I was not disappointed. If you haven’t seen it yet, have a watch: What we have here is a thorough, polished bit of media analysis with obvious effort and expense put toward editing, research, design,…