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This broke my heart. It broke my heart at least partly because these students are all Mormon, and are less capable of questioning their religion than they are capable of questioning their peers or the gender roles proscribed to them, and partly because they faced such disapprobation at the hands of others that shared their [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sexuality’
Gay Students of Brigham Young University: It Gets Better
April 6th, 2012 
Jason Thibeault 
Posted in Gender, Memes, Religion 
Tags: Christianity, gender, homophobia, homosexuality, it gets better, Mormonism, religion, sexuality 
7 Comments »How easy it must be to be Be
March 6th, 2012 Jason Thibeault Natalie Reed is a transgender activist and an atheist, and possibly more importantly, a fantastic writer. She wrote an insightful post (like she does) regarding a meme spreading amongst the transgender community that “God loves trans people”, wherein she vehemently disagreed with the statement, because there is no evidence for the existence of this corporeal [...]
Posted in Asshats, Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege, Religion Tags: atheism, Be Scofield, gender, LGBTQ, Natalie Reed, sexuality, Things God Hates, Things God Loves 46 Comments »Catholics’ protest against HHS contraceptive rules completely misfires
February 2nd, 2012 Jason Thibeault So Catholic officials are up in arms about the US Department of Health and Human Services’ new regulation requiring all employers to provide contraceptives to insured employees with no co-pay. The very idea that people who use contraceptives to prevent pregnancy might actually not have to pay for those contraceptives is evidently so anathema to [...]
Posted in Asshats, Gender, Religion Tags: abortion, abstinence-only education, Catholicism, contraception, feminism, human rights, humanism, reproductive rights, rhythm method, sexuality 25 Comments »Female orgasm, caught on tape
November 17th, 2011 Jason Thibeault You can still call a digital three-dee brain MRI a “tape”, right? Remember the very recent paper that Scicurious, PZ Myers and Greg Laden all covered, regarding the hypothetical reasons why women have orgasms analogous to men’s, considering that women don’t output eggs during orgasm the way that men output semen? I guess female orgasms [...]
Female protagonists in video games as eye candy and as role models
November 6th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Via reader Aliasalpha, Kotaku Australia has a piece up about a Street Fighter panel at NYU’s Game Centre where Capcom staffer Seth Killian (a.k.a s-kill) was asked, point blank, “why so sexist?” He said he was going to “take it on the chin”, but proceded to blame cultural differences between Japanese and Western cultures, playing [...]
Posted in Games, Gender, Privilege Tags: boobs, privilege, sexism, sexuality, video games 27 Comments »God: “It Getteth Better”
November 6th, 2011 Jason Thibeault An absolutely shameless marketing strategy by Simon & Schuster to promote A Last Testament: A Memoir By God. But I’ll bite, because it’s sacrelicious. Also, there’s a great little scuffle going on right now between Simon and Schuster and the National Organization for Marriage. NOM is DEEPLY OFFENDED by this, and has reuploaded the video [...]
Posted in Books, Humour, Religion Tags: bigotry, books, copyright, homosexuality, religion, sexuality 2 Comments »The Problem with Privilege (or: Predatory Behaviour)
October 6th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Post 9 in an ongoing series. See the Master Post for previous entries in The Problem with Privilege. In the last post in this series, comments diverged from the topic of overzealous application of skepticism to the idea of whether it’s right and rational for women to assume that all men are potential rapists. I [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: feminism, gender, privilege, problem with privilege, rape, Rebecca Watson, sexuality, women 86 Comments »A newly minted published fiction author in our midst
October 5th, 2011 Jason Thibeault Holy hell, Stephanie Zvan got a piece of fiction published in Nature! If you ask me, it’s about time someone published her — I’ve had the privilege of reading a number of her unpublished works; there’s more than one reason she has earned my respect and the only official title I’ve ever bestowed on anyone [...]
Posted in Books, Gender, Meta, Politics Tags: computers, medicine, sexuality, stories, virtual reality 3 Comments »The Problem with Privilege (or: Evidential Skepticism)
October 4th, 2011 Jason Thibeault It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these posts, so to catch you all up, here are my prior entries in the series. The Problem with Privilege (or: you got sexism in my skepticism!) The Problem with Privilege (or: no, you’re not a racist misogynist ass, calm down) The Problem with Privilege (or: [...]
Posted in Blogosphere, Gender, Privilege Tags: evidence, feminism, gender, misogyny, privilege, rape, Rebecca Watson, sexism, sexuality, skepticism, women 77 Comments »It might not get better after all.
August 29th, 2011 Jason Thibeault I love the “It Gets Better” campaign, started by newspaper personality Dan Savage. The message he has to deliver though, that bullying and oppression that you might experience by coming out as gay or transsexual or any other non-hetero orientation will eventually wane as others mature and learn to embrace plurality, might be… shall we [...]
Posted in Asshats, Gender, Religion Tags: asshats, bigotry, bullshit, Christianity, civil rights, genetics, religion, sexuality, society 7 Comments »
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