Showing posts with label misogyny. Show all posts
Showing posts with label misogyny. Show all posts
Thursday, February 2, 2023

As Cardinal Pell Is Buried, He's Acclaimed a "Saint for Our Times," While Abuse Survivors and LGBTQ People Protest

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As Rod McGuirk reports , as Cardinal Pell's funeral is held today, police have refused to permit LGBTQ-rights protesters outside the Cat...
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Pelosi Attack: Violence Far More Prevalent on Right Side of Political Spectrum, Though Republicans Want to Deny This

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Hammer photo uploaded to Wikimedia Commons by Malene Thyssen Jill Filipovic notes the prevalence of violence emanating from the political ...
Saturday, February 22, 2020

Centering Religion on Possession or Lack of a Penis Seems to Have Some Significant Downsides

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Tina Beattie, "A 'frozen idea of the feminine,"   The Tablet, 20 Feb. 2020 I think this morning of three famous m...
Friday, December 6, 2019

What We Are Now Living Through Creates a Serious Crisis of Religious Faith

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In the video above, discussing the death of 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernandez Vasquez in a detention center for immigrants this past ...
Monday, August 5, 2019

"We Must Call the El Paso Shooting What It Is: Trump-Inspired Terrorism" — Commentary on White Supremacist Roots of Recent Mass Shootings

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El Paso Shooter: Not an immigrant. Parkland Shooter: Not an immigrant. Tree Of Life Shooter: Not an immigrant. Las Vegas Shooter:...
Tuesday, June 4, 2019

Owen Jones on Obligation to Confront Trumpism, "A Resurgent Global Far Right" That Is Racist, Xenophobic, Misogynistic, and Homophobic

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Holy hell did he snap pic.twitter.com/TVWM9ONKGq — Na'ama 🌈 (@iknowplacesmp6) May 24, 2019 Owen Jones is rapidly becoming a journ...
Wednesday, May 29, 2019

"With Nationalists Topping the Polls in Two of Europe's Three Main Founding Nations, It's Hard to See How Any of This Is Worth Celebrating"

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The same politicians who claim they are for life fight living wages, want to cut food stamps & don’t want people to have health insur...
Monday, May 27, 2019

Why I Continue to Insist That It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia: A Footnote to My Recent Response to Responses

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It's certainly true that every society or nation is different, and what applies to one won't necessarily apply to another. Bu...
Sunday, May 26, 2019

Why I Continue to Insist That It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia: My Response to Your Responses

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Thank you all for your thoughtful and valuable responses to my reflections about the wave of manufactured rage (racist, misogynistic,...
Friday, May 24, 2019

The Wave of Manufactured Rage Sweeping Across Societies Now, and Silliness of the "Economic Alienation" Explanation: It's About Racism, Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Homophobia

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Shorn of any ideological hue, this is populism distilled into its purest form: a pared-back rage over an apparently corrupt political esta...
Monday, May 13, 2019

Ruth Krall, A Considered Response to a Canadian Catholic Educator's Quarterly Review of the Covington Catholic Story

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Ruth Krall was inspired by Paul2port's quarterly review of the Covington Catholic story last Saturday, and in response to it, she h...
Saturday, May 11, 2019

A Canadian Catholic Educator's Quarterly Review of the Covington Catholic Story: "Get Serious About Living Your Faith"

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Near the start of February, I posted commentary from a Canadian Catholic educator, Paul2port, regarding the story of the young men from ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2019

Sri Lanka, the Spiral of Violence, and Global Turn to Strongmen Messianic Solutions: The Temptation of This Moment

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I grieve — so very much — the carnage we've just seen enacted in Sri Lanka, on the day many Christians consider the holiest day o...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Tara Westover's Educated: "What my father wanted to cast from me wasn't a demon: it was me."

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Having finished reading Tara Westover's Educated  several weeks ago, I've been thinking about what I'd like to say as a c...
Tuesday, April 2, 2019

Miriam Toews' Irma Voth and Tara Westover's Educated: On Patriarchal Religion and Misogynistic Violence

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It's by accident — or synchronicity — that I happen to have read Miriam Toews' novel Irma Voth  at the same time that I'm...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Ed Kilgore on White Evangelicals as Heart of Trump Base: "Committed to a Common Desire to Take America Back to Its Days of Greatness in the 1950s"

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In " White Evangelicals Are Still the Heart of Trump's Base ," Ed Kilgore comments on new Pew Research Center data tha...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019

"Everything in This Spreading Crisis Revolves Around Structural Mendacity"; "Poland's Most Senior Nun Has Been Banned from Further Media Contact": Talking Abuse

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Poland's most senior nun has been banned from further media contact after condemning the sexual abuse of religious sisters by Cathol...
Friday, February 15, 2019

Stephanie Krehbiel on Religious Groups Facing Abuse Revelations: "Godly Men, Be Quiet"

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This map shows routes of several Southern #Baptist "travelers;" men who preyed on people in one church role & went on to an...
Wednesday, February 13, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Preying on Teens"

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The third installment in the Houston Chronicle and San Antonio Express-News investigation of abuse in Southern Baptist churches is ou...
Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Southern Baptist Abuse Report, Next Installment: "Offend, Then Repeat"

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The next installment in the Houston Chronicle  (and San Antonio Express-News ) ground-breaking report on abuse within Southern Baptis...