May 19th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
Remember Katelyn Campbell, the West Virginia high school student who very publicly protested a dishonest and disgusting mandatory assembly on abstinence at her school? It seems the principal who threatened to call the university she planned to attend for that isn’t done trying to punish her: Read more
Posted in Feminism, Wingnuttia | 15 comments
May 17th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
It truly baffles me that any woman could be a Christian (or for that matter, a Jew or a Muslim since they all accept the passage I’m about to recite as coming directly from God). The Bible is virulently patriarchal and misogynist in a hundred different ways. Like Leviticus 12: Read more
Posted in Feminism, Religious Weirdness | 41 comments
May 17th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
Dave Buehner of Generations Radio launched into quite a diatribe on his radio show, explaining — accurately — how the Bible clearly says that a woman is owned by her father until she gets married, then she is owned by her husband. And therefore they have no freedom or self-determination at any point: Read more
Posted in Feminism, Wingnuttia | 31 comments
May 14th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
The Women at the Wall, a group of Jewish women who have long sought the right to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem along with men, did so for the first time with police protection on Friday. But they were greeted by thousands of yeshiva students — including Haredi girls — who attacked them verbally and physically. Read more
Posted in Feminism, Religious Authoritarianism, Religious Barbarism | 57 comments
May 13th, 2013 by Ed Brayton
Tim Lambesis, the lead singer of Christian metal band As I Lay Dying, has been arrested for allegedly hiring a hit man to kill his estranged wife. So naturally, a disturbingly high number of his fans have decided that his wife deserved it for being a bitch, slut, cunt or whatever other slur they could think of. Read more
Posted in Feminism | 50 comments