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When Pitchfork‘s Chris Dahlen wrote a tribute to Liz Phair’s landmark indie masterpiece Exile in Guyville as a review of its 15th anniversary rerelease in 2008, he led with this paragraph: You break all kinds of unwritten rules when you’re a guy who admires a girl. The white suburban kids who idolize gangster rappers are old [...]
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Be Careful About Loving Women Too Much Lest Other Guys Think You’re Gay
September 21st, 2011 
Daniel Fincke 
Posted in Culture, Feminism, Feminism, Indie Music, Indie Music, Indie Rock, Indie Rock, Music, Music, Sex, Women's Issues 
Tags: Exile in Guyville, Land of Talk, Lisa Hannigan, Liz Phair, Pitchfork, Sleater-Kinney, St. Vincent, Tegan and Sara 
11 Comments »The Evils of the Sermon on the Mount (Part 1)
September 15th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Progressives, regardless of whether they are liberal Christians or non-believers, like to accuse fundamentalist Christians of ignoring Jesus’s supposed message of love and tolerance which is supposedly epitomized by his remarks in the Sermon on the Mount. Actually reading the Bible, Jesus does not actually always live up to the billing progressives give him as [...]
Posted in Bible, Bible, Christianity, Christianity, Feminism, Feminism, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Homosexuality, Homosexuality, Jesus, Jesus, Philosophy Of Religion, Religion, Religion, Religious Extremism, Religious Extremism, Religious Moderates, Religious Moderates, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sex, Women's Issues Tags: Sermon on the Mount 12 Comments »"Why Women Should Not Be Allowed To Vote"
March 9th, 2011 Daniel Fincke 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?
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 [...]
A Rape Victim's Heartbreaking Testimony About Planned Parenthood's Support
February 23rd, 2011 Daniel Fincke via PZ Myers comes a vital video by Chloe Heintz: UPDATE: Now there’s a follow up interview with Chloe from CBSNews.com Your Thoughts?
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 »Iranian Woman Sentenced To Stoning After Being Lashed 99 Times Until She “Confessed” Adultery
July 6th, 2010 Daniel Fincke CNN reports: Ashtiani, 42, will be buried up to her chest, according to an Amnesty International report citing the Iranian penal code. The stones that will be hurled at her will be large enough to cause pain but not so large as to kill her immediately. Ashtiani, who is from the northern city of Tabriz, was [...]
Posted in News, Women's Issues, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Human Rights Abuses, Iran, Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani 8 Comments »The Asian Sex Trade
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke “The sex trade now accounts for 14% of Thailand’s economy.” Your Thoughts?
Posted in News, Sex, Videos, Women's Issues, World Affairs Tags: Cambodia, Sex Trade, Thailand 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 »
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