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Category Archives: Feminism
A Particularly Ugly Episode in the Christian Culture Wars.
It’s been a rather mind-blowing week over in Christian Bizarro-land. The anniversary of the landmark decision Roe v. Wade was coming up, and it happened to coincide with the start of a legislative session in Congress, so naturally there’s been quite a lot of grandstanding and showboating going on as Christianist politicians and religious leaders alike jockey to demonstrate who loves fetuses the most. Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged abortion, American Christianity, American Republican Party, Christianity, Christians, conservative Christianity, Equality, Evangelical Christianity, Gender equality, hypocrisy, LGBT rights, marriage equality, Misogyny, Reproductive rights, Republican Party United States, Roe v. Wade, Scott DesJarlais, SCOTUS, Sexism, Supreme Court of the United States, Women's rights
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The Handbook: Soaking in a Bubble Bath.
We’ve talked here about the “Christian bubble.” The Christian bubble is an insular world with its own customs, language, in-jokes, references, worldview, attitudes, and social customs–a world that only very minimally touches upon the real world that non-Christians inhabit. Today I want to devote more time to the idea. Continue reading
Taylor Swift’s Bubble.
“You Belong With Me” is a fairy tale about the Purity Myth–and about how conforming to it can win young women what they want. Unfortunately, fairy tales are rarely very in tune with reality. Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, The Games We Play
Tagged Britney Spears, Education, feminism, girlfriend, high school kids, Higher Education, homeschooling, Kanye West, Lady Gaga, Miley Cyrus, Music, Pop Music, Purity Myth, School, Taylor Swift, Videos, Women
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How the Purity Myth Destroys Lives.
(Content Note: Discussion of sex and pornography, and also some NSFW links.) We’ve talked about the Purity Myth off and on here, and even knowing what I know about it I still get completely blindsided sometimes by the dramatic examples … Continue reading
The Curious Case of the Undesirable Virgin.
Christian culture thinks about virginity in a very particular way, and that’s what we’re going to talk about today. Continue reading
Posted in Feminism, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play
Tagged Christian, Christian culture, Christianity, Evangelical Christianity, Purity Myth
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And I Still Belong To Me.
A new friend of mine wrote a blog post at Ex-Communications about Christianity’s massive blind spot about consent–and all Hell broke loose about one line in it. Continue reading
Leaping from Floe to Floe.
Our dear friend Charles at Skeptic Journey has brought something up that I wanted to talk about today: the growing sense of flailing that I get from modern Christian organizations as they try to stem the tide of apostates and … Continue reading
Posted in Biography, Feminism, Guides, Hypocrisy, Religion, The Games We Play, Theology
Tagged Apostasy in Christianity, Catholic Church, Catholic churches, Christian, Christian churches, Education, evangel, Higher Education, homeschooling, Pentecostalism, religious organizations, Sunday, United States
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Roll to Disbelieve 