Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Saturday, November 5, 2022

Arwa Mahdawi on the White Female (Republican) Elephant in the Room as Americans Vote

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Angie Maxwell and Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics (NY: Oxford UP,...
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...
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...
Saturday, November 10, 2018

"Good, Conservative People Who Reject Liberalism": White Southern Evangelical Attack on Social Contract & Why We Are Where We Are Now

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John Sharp, " Alabama just elected 'one of the most conservative governments we've ever had '":
Wednesday, September 12, 2018

Important Statement from Catholic Women Speak re: "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women": Who's Promoting It and Why

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This is an important statement from Catholic Women Speak  in response to the "Letter to Pope Francis from Catholic Women" bei...
Thursday, May 10, 2018

"In Every Case, 'Wives Submit to Your Husbands' Appears in the Same Context As 'Slaves Obey Your Masters'": A Twitter Conversation for You

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In every case, "wives submit to your husbands" appears in the same context as "slaves obey your masters." And yet I...
Friday, April 20, 2018

Friday Photo Essay: Cigars, Phallic Twattery, and Keeping a Woman Out of the White House

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Heather Dockray, " Who are these cartoon villains driving around with Rudy Giuliani ?" As Dockray reports, the photo of Giulia...
Friday, March 9, 2018

Mary McAleese on Catholic Church As "Primary Global Carrier of the Virus of Misogyny" and on Theology Denying Ordination to Women as "Pure Codology"

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This is really Sarasi's post and not mine. In the past two days, she has provided a wealth of links to commentary about the stellar a...
Sunday, February 11, 2018

Trump White House and Rob Porter Story: "Nothing More Important Than a Powerful Man's Word"

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Huffington Post U.S. Top Headline, 10 Feb. 2018, 8 A.M. CST Amanda Terkel , "For Trump, There’s Nothing More Important Than A Po...
Wednesday, November 8, 2017

Twitter Chews Over Election Results: "Thoughts and Prayers to all the Republican Politicians Who Lost Their Seats Today"

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Thoughts and prayers to all the Republican politicians who lost their seats today. We won't do anything to prevent it from happening a...
Thursday, May 18, 2017

"People in Control in Gilead Aren't 'Really Interested in Religion; They’re Interested in Power'": Notes on Atwood's Dystopian Handmaid's Tale and Today's News

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To complement the notes I have just posted about Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale , here are some observations from my ne...

Some Notes on Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale and Intersectionality: Class Privilege Connects to Racial Privilege Connects to Heterosexism Connects to Misogyny Connects to Religion

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A fascinating aspect of Margaret Atwood's Handmaid's Tale , especially in the Hulu series that we continue watching, is how i...
Friday, May 27, 2016

Nicola Denzey's The Bone Gatherers: The Lost Worlds of Early Christian Women — Book Notes

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My last posting was, in some respects, a piece of historiographical commentary. It was a meditation of sorts on how historians might...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Mr. Trump Plays the Woman Card: Recent Commentary on Issues of Gender and Misogyny in Presidential Campaign

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After his recent string of victories in the Northeast, Donald Trump has given us a taste of what's to come as he and Hillary Clinton ...
Saturday, April 16, 2016

Diarmaid MacCulloch Again, on How Anger of Aggrieved Heterosexual Males Drives Many Christian Churches Today

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As I think about the firing of Tony Spence of Catholic News Service this past week and about the underlying heterosexist and male-pr...
Friday, April 8, 2016

Michael Boyle on North Carolina Bishops' Praise of Anti-LGBTQ Hate Law and Who Really Represents Christianity Adequately Today (and the Connection to Amoris Laetitia)

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This is not unrelated to the discussion of Amoris Laetitia  that I began in my first two postings this morning: I'd like to recom...

Barbie Latza Nadeau on Amoris Laetitia As No Good News for Women: Denial of Differences Between the Sexes Described As Ideological, But Who Claims That There Are No Differences?

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Did I say something earlier today about the pope's "exhortation" on family Amoris Laetitia (still haven't read it,...
Sunday, March 6, 2016

Ruth Krall, A Considered Response to Lambelet and Hamilton: Vis-à-vis the Topic of Being Made Invisible…One More Time

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John Howard Yoder (1927-1997) It's my honor to share with you today an important essay by Ruth Krall responding to a recent   r...
Thursday, January 14, 2016

More Commentary on Frederick Clarkson's New Essay about Religious Freedom: Patricia Miller and Bill Berkowitz

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More valuable commentary today about Frederick Clarkson's report on religious freedom  entitled "When Exemption Is the Rule:...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Leah Mickens: "Reason Why Feminists and LGBT People Get So Much Crap from the Hierarchy and Their Conservotrad Enablers Is Because They Demand Honesty in Sexual Issues"

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Brilliant commentary from Leah Mickens of the blog Extra Ecclesiam Est Libertas : Leah's writing in response to my previous posting...