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Sexism And Sensitivity
February 13th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke So, a couple of weeks ago, was American Atheists’ Southeast Regional Atheist Meet and during the conference there was a talk that rubbed some of the women at the conference as sexist. Then at a panel discussion, of which there is video footage below which you can view for yourself, a woman complained about the [...]
Posted in Featured, Feminism, Feminism, Women's Issues 
Tags: Jen McCreight, Lyz Lidell, Privilege, Sexism, Sharon Moss 
No Comments »Republican Legislator In Wyoming Recounts Circumstances Of Her Abortion
February 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Rachel Maddow covers the remarkable story about Wyoming State Representatives Lisa Shepperson and Sue Wallis making a small government conservatism argument against a paternalistic proposed abortion law: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Wallis is the mother of 7 and the grandmother of 1. More about her can be [...]
Posted in Abortion, Abortion, Bio-Medical Ethics, Bio-Medical Ethics, Feminism, Feminism, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Politics, Politics, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Rights, Women's Issues Tags: Rachel Maddow, Robert Brechtel, Sue Wallis, Wyoming 2 Comments »Reddit’s Chauvinistic Atheists
February 3rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke There are few more prominent and thriving online atheist communities than Reddit‘s atheism subreddit. So it’s especially disgraceful and embarrassing to me to see so many of these atheist redditters prove they have more testosterone than brains. Jen McCreight, the committed, inventive, and inspiringly effective atheist activist, biology graduate student, contributor to The Atheist’s Guide [...]
Posted in Atheism, Atheism, Feminism, Feminism, Women's Issues Tags: Atheist Subreddit, Blag Hag, Jennifer McCreight, Reddit 7 Comments »Anonymous Was A Woman
January 30th, 2011 Daniel Fincke For all feminists and sticklers for proper quote attribution alike, the Yale Alumni Magazine has a wonderful must-read article setting the record straight on the real women who wrote famous lines either falsely attributed to men or long attribute to “anonymous”. (Virginia Woolf wrote that she “would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so [...]
Posted in Feminism, Feminism, Women's Issues Tags: Evelyn Beatrice Hall, Literary History, Literature, S. G. Tallentyre, Voltaire 1 Comment »The Pope’s Weaselly Excuses For Church Child Abuse In The ’70s
January 11th, 2011 Daniel Fincke On Christmas, the Pope Benedict XVI tried, pathetically, to minimize the Church’s responsibility for the pedophilia scandals: Victims of clerical sex abuse have reacted furiously to Pope Benedict’s claim yesterday that paedophilia wasn’t considered an “absolute evil” as recently as the 1970s. In his traditional Christmas address yesterday to cardinals and officials working in Rome, [...]
Posted in Authoritarianism, Authoritarianism, Christianity, Christianity, Featured, Feminism, Feminism, Politics, Politics, Pope Benedict XVI, Pope Benedict XVI, Rape, Religion, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church Tags: Child Abuse, Feminism, Jason Thibeault, Pedophilia, Pedophilia in The Church, Sexual Abuse, Sexual Revolution 19 Comments »France To Ban Burqa-Like Veils
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke EuroNews.net writes: A law banning the wearing of a full Islamic veil in public in France has been adopted by the lower house of parliament. The ruling UMP and the New Centre party voted for the ban on the burqa or niqab while the Socialists, Communists and Greens abstained. The law goes to the upper house in [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Feminism, Feminism, Free Speech, Free Speech, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, News, Politics, Politics, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Burqa Ban, France, French Burqa Ban, Veil No Comments »
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