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2018-04-09T13:22:26-04:00

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Dr. Estrangedlove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Embrace My Inner Feminist

Last updated on: April 9, 2018 at 1:22 pm By Guest Contributor

Why am I the only woman in the room? Because a male friend of mine managed to get me in there. Why am I the only woman in that room? Because I’m not given the power to get more women in myself. Read more

2018-01-08T15:23:30-04:00

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Men: Try This One Weird Trick to Get Respect From Women

Last updated on: January 8, 2018 at 3:23 pm By Guest Contributor

You have the power to affirm and amplify the value of a woman’s voice or reputation. Read more

2018-04-09T13:23:20-04:00

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Sexual Moral Relativism from the Religious Right?

Last updated on: April 9, 2018 at 1:23 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

This is not, unfortunately, the first time I have witnessed the claim that Moore’s misconduct was not an issue because standards were different “back then.” Read more

2018-01-22T22:30:26-04:00

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Our Lady of Righteous Anger

Last updated on: January 22, 2018 at 10:30 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

until women are the ones leading the conversation about sex, gender, and equality in the church, we don’t “have” Mary. Men do Read more

2017-12-30T23:41:03-04:00

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“Fake News” and the Silencing of Women

Last updated on: December 30, 2017 at 11:41 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

(PSA: trigger warning for language about rape, violence). The summer I was finishing my M.A. in philosophy, I started receiving threatening phone calls. A male voice, sometimes low and menacing, other times high-pitched and enraged, telling me what he planned to do to me – plans involved rape, cutting, dismemberment. He called me obscene names, told me he knew where I lived, that he knew I lived with my sister. He’d do her too, he said. For homeschool kids, we... Read more

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2017-12-21T13:38:06-04:00

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God in the Grotesque: a Nativity Scene

Last updated on: December 21, 2017 at 1:38 pm By Guest Contributor

here was God, Creator of the Universe, playing with a kraken like a puppy Read more

2017-12-04T00:51:16-04:00

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Every Day an Apocalypse

Last updated on: December 4, 2017 at 12:51 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Maybe when I turned away from the dreary end-times prophecies it wasn’t because I rejected the apocalyptic, but because I sought it out Read more

2017-11-12T17:32:39-04:00

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How the Religious Right Prepares Women to be Victims of Rape Culture

Last updated on: November 12, 2017 at 5:32 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

You’re a young woman emerging from far-right religious circles, where modesty is a cult and male authority is ordained by God. You are accustomed to regarding your body as a source of sin. Being female alone is problematic, an extra blot on the already smudgy condition of being human. We women are the ones who let ourselves be tricked into causing the fall, after all. And the subtext is that it would never have happened if Eve hadn’t strayed... Read more

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2017-11-06T11:01:56-04:00

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Why I Refuse to Refer to Abortion as a “Holocaust”

Last updated on: November 6, 2017 at 11:01 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

“… I assure you of my spiritual closeness and my sharing in your concern for the continuing holocaust of innocent human lives…” wrote John Paul II to Cardinal Bernard Law, in a December, 1997 letter. The word “holocaust,” has clear and somber implications, especially for anyone in the Jewish community. Even when used with a small “h” it carries connotations of the Shoah: and thus the burden of the intolerable and unspeakable in human history – recent human history, as both... Read more

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2018-01-03T16:31:00-04:00

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It’s Not About the Vulgarity

Last updated on: January 3, 2018 at 4:31 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

As more reports emerge about the scope of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, and the scale of sexual harassment and assault in general, we are turning our attention increasingly to the conditions in which what is often termed “rape culture” flourishes. Toxic masculinity. Locker-room attitudes. A society that commodifies female sexuality. Capitalist, colonialist notions about possession and power. Normalization of predatory attitudes towards sex. The idea that a woman who doesn’t “put out” is somehow a prude. These conditions exist across... Read more

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