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As Ellis on Facebook put it, the Bible was “written by and for men like this guy”: It’s not a divinely inspired book any more than this jackass is a prophet. Your Thoughts?
Archive for the ‘Feminism’ Category
"Why Women Should Not Be Allowed To Vote"
March 9th, 2011 
Daniel Fincke Vatican Confirms Widespread Rape Of Nuns By Priests In 23 Countries
February 26th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Sickening: The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. The Catholic Church in Rome made the extraordinary admission yesterday that it is aware priests from at least 23 countries have been sexually abusing nuns. Most of the abuse [...]
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 »“No Longer Quivering”
July 29th, 2010 Daniel Fincke What a great name for a blog. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Christianity, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Religion, Secularism, Women's Issues Tags: Ex-fundamentalist, Quiverfull, Quiverfull Movement 1 Comment »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 »Love, Polygamy, And Arranged Marriage In The Tanzanian Maasai Tribe
July 13th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Cultural variation is amazing: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Ethics, Feminism, Love, Social Psychology, Sociology, Women's Rights, Women's Issues Tags: Africa, Arranged Marriage, Maasai Tribe, Marriage, Polygamy, Tanzania No Comments »Louisiana To Require Ultrasounds Before Abortions
June 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke It was a unanimous 79-0 vote: Women seeking abortions in Louisiana will be required to get an ultrasound first, even if they are a victim of rape or incest, under a bill that received final legislative passage Wednesday. The bill by Democratic state Sen. Sharon Broome of Baton Rouge was sent to the governor’s desk [...]
Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
Daily Hilarity: Best Of Sarah Haskins’s “Target Women”
June 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sarah Haskins always provides the most hilarious and incisive commentary tearing into the lousy logic and vapid condescension packed into advertisements targeted at women on her recurring Infomania segment called Target Women. Her dry witted satirical media criticism would be a perfect fit on The Daily Show and in logic classes. Every time I watch one of [...]
Tony Blair On Our Allies Who Live Within Theocracies
June 2nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Michael Shermer got the chance to ask Tony Blair how we spread various central Western ideals of democracy, education, civil liberties, equality, etc. in hostile theocratic countries without resorting to military force. Part of Blair’s answer: “It’s one of the great myths perpetrated in our own societies is that somehow people who live in oppressive [...]
Posted in Feminism, Politics, Secularism, Theocracy, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Michael Shermer, Tony Blair No Comments »American Academy Of Pediatrics Reverses Support For Female Circumcision “Compromise”
June 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke The American Academy of Pediatrics had proposed permitting American doctors to ritually “nick” the clitorises of girls whose parents want to maintain their customs in America. The thinking was that this compromise would prevent such parents from going underground to have a fuller mutilation of the clitoris carried out instead. Ayaan Hirsi Ali argues that [...]
Posted in Atheist Videos, Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism, Islam, Law, Law & Politics, News, News Discussion, Politics, Religious Extremism, Sex, Videos, Women's Issues Tags: "Nicking" The Clitoris, American Academy of Pediatrics, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Congressman Joseph Crowley, Female Circumcision, Female Genital Mutilation, Infidel, Misogyny, Nomad: From Islam to America: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations, Religion and Sex, Religious Atrocities, Religious Hatred Of The Body, The American Academy of Pediatrics, The Caged Virgin: An Emancipation Proclamation for Women and Islam No Comments »Marriage As Rooted In Pre-Social Goods And As Having Radical Potential
June 1st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Courtney at Feministing is quite skeptical of marriage but characterizes Elizabeth Gilbert (of Eat, Pray, Love fame) as making a relatively compelling case for “the radical potential to be found in the privacy of the family unit” in her new memoir, Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage: [Gilbert] writes, “It is not we as individuals, [...]
Women’s Ordination: Another Route To Automatic Excommunication
May 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke Not only does approving an abortion necessary to save a woman’s life in a case where her fetus would die in either case get you automatically excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church, but so does seeking ordination while being female. Lifelong Catholic Janine Denomme this week was denied a Roman Catholic burial for having the [...]
Saudi Girls Pepper Spray Religious Enforcers
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke On the heals of the story we highlighted the other day in which a Saudi Woman attacked a member of the Saudi Commision for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice for harassing her over her clothing, Ashaq Al-Awsat reports another heartening incident along the same lines: Dammam, Asharq Al-Awsat- Members of Khobar’s Commission [...]
Posted in Civil Liberties, Civil Rights, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Law, News, Religious Extremism, Separation of Church and State, Theocracy, Theocrats, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Asharq Al-Awsat, Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, Dr. Mohamed bin Marshood al-Marshood, Khobar, Saudi Arabia No Comments »RapeAway!™
May 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Pharyngula profiled this Egyptian ad last week, which advised women to veil themselves using an illustration: In response, BewareTheLizards42 has unveiled a new product: Your Thoughts?
Posted in Feminism, Islam, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: BewareTheLizards42, Egypt, Pharyngula No Comments »Moral Actions, Moral Sentiments, Moral Motives, and Moral Justifications: More On The Nun Excommunicated For Approving A Life-Saving Abortion
May 18th, 2010 Daniel Fincke In reply to my post on the story of Sister Margaret McBride whom the Catholic Church “automatically excommunicated” for helping to give the go-ahead to an abortion claimed necessary for saving the life of an 11 week pregnant mother, I have already received two interesting replies. The first challenged the medical argument for the necessity of [...]
Posted in Abortion, Applied Ethics, Authority, Autonomy, Bio-Medical Ethics, Christianity, Contemporary Ethics, Duty, Ethics, Featured, Feminism, Metaethics, Moral Psychology, Morality, Philosophical Ethics, Philosophy, Religion, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Teleology, Virtues, Women's Issues Tags: Action Theory, Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted, Consequentialism, Doctrine of Double Effect, Excommunication, John Garvie, Moral Judgment, Moral Justification, Moral Motivation, Moral Sentiments, Phoenix Archdiocese, Sister Margaret McBride, Vice, Vicious Motives, Vicious Sentiments, Virtue Ethics 5 Comments »Saudi Woman Beats Up “Virtue Cop”
May 17th, 2010 Daniel Fincke The Jerusalem Post reports: When a Saudi religious policeman sauntered about an amusement park in the eastern Saudi Arabian city of Al-Mubarraz looking for unmarried couples illegally socializing, he probably wasn’t expecting much opposition. But when he approached a young, 20-something couple meandering through the park together, he received an unprecedented whooping. A member of the Commission for the [...]
Are Legal Burqas A Security Risk?
May 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Now in Australia, a senator is making this argument: Tasneem Chopra comes off most impressive. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Feminism, Islam, News, News Discussion, Political Secularism, Religion, Separation of Church and State, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Australia, Australian, burka, burkha, Burqa, Burqua, Cory Bernardi, Europe, Freedom, headscarf, Kevin Rudd, Michael Brooks Jones, Offence, Religious Rights, Robert Henning, Tasneem Chopra, Terrorism, Tolerance, Unaustralian No Comments »Poisoned For Going To School?
April 26th, 2010 Daniel Fincke First it was malicious misogynists attacking Afghani school-going girls with acid in their faces, now it appears they’re being poisoned: Local doctors suggested the Taliban may be the perpetrators of possible poison attacks. At least 88 girls and teachers became ill in separate cases at three girls’ schools. The cause of the illnesses was not known, [...]
Posted in Feminism, Islam, Religious Extremism, Theocrats, Women's Issues Tags: Acid Attacks, Afghan Human Independent Rights Commission, Afghanistan, Dr. Mohammad Qasam Khamoosh, Kunduz province, Poison, Religious Misogyny, Syed Karim Talash, Taliban, Terrorism, Violence Against Women No Comments »Evangelical Christian Sexism Galore
November 8th, 2009 Daniel Fincke Mark Driscoll the mainstream megachurch pastor at Mars Hill Church attacks stay-at-home dads as “not real men” and, my favorite, “worse than unbelievers.” Ouch dudes, you’re worse than us atheists if you stay home to take care of your kids! Oh snap! Enjoy being on the bottom of the pecking order! We atheists who have real [...]
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