Doctor Hawa Abdi is nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize according to her foundation’s website. According to a commenter below this must be a mistake – but she’s well worth knowing about just the same. For more than two decades, Mama Hawa has poured her blood, sweat and tears into her humanitarian work, asking for …
Monthly Archive: July 2012
Jul 27 2012
Column A and column B
Foster Disbelief is pleased to see the new trend. After watching certain atheists say hurtful, hateful, idiotic, misogynistic things directed atRebecca Watson, the whole Skepchick crew (especially Surly Amy recently), other women in skepticism who dared to speak out, and the men who understand that there is a problem and want to do something to fix it, it is …
Jul 26 2012
Ron Lindsay speaks out
The third in Amy’s series. Hate-filled invective has been directed at many different people, male and female, but of late women have been disproportionately targeted. What is especially sad and disgusting about this trend is that some religious skeptics seem to be mimicking religious fundamentalists: they want to intimidate women into silence and submission. What’s …
Jul 26 2012
Meeting Vyckie
I just spent a couple of hours talking to Vyckie Garrison of No Longer Quivering, who is in town on a visit. It was a great conversation. We talked about her transition from the Quiverfull life to freedom, and the worries about putting her children in school for the first time. Were they too sheltered, …
Jul 26 2012
It sounds very beautiful and appealing
More on top-down authority versus everyone else. On obedience. Last week Sister Pat Farrell said what she thinks obedience is. But the word obedience comes from the Latin root meaning to hear, to listen. And so as I have come to understand that vow, what it means to me is that we listen to what …
Jul 26 2012
The church’s authentic interpretation
The authentic interpretation that tells them they’re allowed to protect child-raping priests at the expense of the children they rape. On Saturday night Tracey Pirona hugged her husband as she has done many times before, and reassured him: “We’ll get through this.” On Sunday morning she found the letter she had feared for years, and …
Jul 26 2012
A Call to Arms for Decent Men
by Ernest W. Adams This piece was originally written as part of the Designer’s Notebook series on the game developers’ web site Gamasutra. However, they declined to publish it in its current form, and I refused to rewrite it. My thanks for permission to reprint it here. Please feel free to share or republish it with attribution. …
Jul 26 2012
It will be dialogue, but not dialogue
Yesterday it was the Vatican’s turn to explain the Deep Rifts between the priests and the sisters. Terry Gross talked to the bishop of Toledo (Ohio, not Spain), Leonard Blair, who is the one who assessed the Leadership Conference of Women Religious and found them very very wanting. Along with Archbishop Peter Sartain and Bishop …
Jul 25 2012
Therefore, the objectification of women is now fine
More from Enlightened Sexism. Because women are now “equal” and the battle is over and won, we are now free to embrace things we used to see as sexist, including hypergirliness. In fact, this is supposed to be a relief. Thank God girls and women can turn their backs on stick-in-the-mud, curdled feminism and now act …
Jul 25 2012
Dale McGowan speaks out
Amy has the second in the series. Read the whole thing. Excerpt. For the past year I’ve been shaking my head in sick disbelief at the abuse many women in the freethought movement are getting, but I’ve stayed silent. I’m not talking about the discussion of gender and privilege itself, which (to my surprise) still …
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