When a man and a woman love each other very much, her happy pink ghost has grapes. Pretty sure this is how many right-wingers understand reproduction By the way…I’m a hooker who is planning on having 400 abortions. There, I’ve outed myself. Whew! It feels good to get that off my […]
Read MoreOn being “gender atypical”
I’ve written before about how LGBT issues are ultimately about gender role conformity in general, and Dan Savage posted on that topic today in relation to the It Gets Better Project: Got this question last night at Cornell University… Cornell professor Ritch Savin-Williams said in the New York Times that […]
Read MoreSuppositions
Human nature, by Junior Lopes Here are a few…let’s call them suppositions I’ve reached in the process of doing a very cultural degree program followed by a very cognitive one: 1. Perspective always matters. None of us are truly objective, because we speak from a perspective by necessity. But by […]
Read MoreStanding with the sluts
No, that’s not a character’s name from a take-off of Dances With Wolves. It’s a post from the blog of a Californian history and gender studies professor called Hugo Schwyzer, who writes about a great event with an unfortunate catalyst: This past Sunday, the world’s first “Slut Walk” took place […]
Read MorePlease don’t molest the feminist bloggers
From the wonderful xkcd.com Poor Jen McCreight. Seriously. If all she did was post about things that offend her, I could understand people thinking that she’s too sensitive and probably a miserable person generally– even though, of course, there are more than enough offensive things happening every second of every […]
Read MoreWe’ve all got our own stuff
Again on Colorlines (I’m really happy to have discovered that site), Thoi Lu discusses black male feminism: In light of the recent 11-year-old Latina who was reportedly gang raped by 18 black men in Cleveland and news of Chris Brown’s continuing meltdowns, Texas, a few black male writers have stepped […]
Read MoreMore follow-up: the difference between neutrality and objectivity
Journalist Lauri Lebo wrote a book about Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, the 2005 creationism case which occurred in her home state of Pennsylvania. Prior to the actual court battle she had been covering the situation locally in newspapers, reporting on what transpired at school board meetings and such. […]
Read MoreHow not to represent rape: a report on a Texas travesty
A horrible crime happened in Cleveland, Texas. A small town just northeast of Houston, it has a population of only 9,000 people, but that apparently includes up to 18 boys and men who were willing to take part in the gang rape of an eleven year old girl. I imagine […]
Read MoreDan Savage as sexual ethicist
As president? Well, maybe not…but we could do and have done a lot worse for that, too. Lutheran pastor Benjamin Dueholm wrote an interesting and thorough article on this subject for Washington Monthly. It’s definitely worth a read, though I disagree with some of his analysis. So does Amanda Marcotte, […]
Read MoreSpeaking of what makes people laugh becoming a moral issue…
…this is pretty much the definition of it. I’m not sure if I want to write a full-fledged post on this topic or not. As you can see from that timeline it’s a controversy that has been going on since August of last year with frequent twists and turns, and […]
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