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2017-03-14T12:42:06-04:00

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about those “other” NFP families

Last updated on: March 14, 2017 at 12:42 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Part of the problem is that unless you have a child every two years or so, people begin to eye you with that beady "is she using contraception?" glitter. Read more

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2017-03-10T17:13:56-04:00

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H.R. 1313: part of the trend of eugenics

Last updated on: March 10, 2017 at 5:13 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

And would people of Jewish descent - or other genetically at-risk demographics - be especially targeted for mandatory testing? Read more

2017-03-08T23:32:15-04:00

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things not to say, if you actually respect women

Last updated on: March 8, 2017 at 11:32 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

If you're passing around memes mocking contemporary feminists, you are the type who would have applauded the arrest of Pankhurst in 1914. Read more

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2017-03-05T22:30:47-04:00

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shocking material in fairy tales – or, nothing new under the sun

Last updated on: March 5, 2017 at 10:30 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

The old stories that come to us out of an older, folk mythos, have been as altered as has the idea of "faerie" itself - made into a genre that exists to be harmless...and, of course, to make a lot of money. Read more

2017-03-03T14:25:05-04:00

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the defense of the unborn, and the demands of justice

Last updated on: March 3, 2017 at 2:25 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

If you wake up one day with a violinist attached to you it is unjust, difficult, terrible, oppressive....but, you still have a moral obligation not to act in a way that will result in the death of the violinist Read more

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2018-02-13T00:37:14-04:00

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Carnivale and Social Justice

Last updated on: February 13, 2018 at 12:37 am By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

The purpose of ritual licence, in which everything but violence is permitted, and no guilt incurred - in which the usual order of things is turned upside down - is not nihilistic or destructive. It is in fact in the service of true, wholesome order - and community. Read more

2017-02-27T14:42:41-04:00

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talking to my child about privilege

Last updated on: February 27, 2017 at 2:42 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

My son, usually very relaxed about conversations on topics of justice, rolled his eyes. "But mom, I didn't do any of those things! I think it was awful that those things happened, but it was a long time ago, and it wasn't me! So why are you saying I'm supposed to feel guilty about it." Read more

2017-02-22T15:19:58-04:00

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genetic testing and hereditary disease: some gifts we can not control

Last updated on: February 22, 2017 at 3:19 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

But when I think about hereditary disease, and those who have not been as lucky as I am to escape carrying it, it does look a lot like a curse. Not the kind of curse that falls on you as a punishment, but the kind that descends for no reason, or because you made an innocent mistake: you plucked the white rose instead of the red. You opened the forbidden door. You fell asleep and let the candle burn down. Read more

2017-02-21T15:04:18-04:00

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how should a christian respond to milo?

Last updated on: February 21, 2017 at 3:04 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

Our image of the loser guy in his mom's basement drooling over porn and proliferating memes is a kid of contemporary avatar of the loutish thick-headed beast crouching in a cave chewing a leg of mutton. This isn't even a worthy enemy, we feel: this is just something to be killed. Read more

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2017-02-16T15:35:12-04:00

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how can we counter the anti-semitism of right-wing reactionaries?

Last updated on: February 16, 2017 at 3:35 pm By Rebecca Bratten Weiss

This is what I think of at the corollary to the Banality of Evil: the tackiness of it. It leans ultimately towards ugly art, bad hairstyles, absurd histrionics, and a moral vacuousness that tries to cover itself with shiny externals. I am reminded of Dante's depiction of the damned as "those who have lost the good of the intellect" - and the further down Inferno you go, the more nasty and stupid the souls there. Read more

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