I Kissed a Girl (& I Liked It) is the title of the “#1 Pop Hit” of the summer. I even heard it on the radio the other day (although not before I heard the article).
This hits on something I’d been thinking of bringing up around here: the fact that female-on-female, shall we call it […]
Entries Tagged as 'Ethics'
Societal Norms & Sexual Experimentation
July 15th, 2008 · by xJane · 11 Comments
Tags: Current Events · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Homosexuality · Music · Pop Culture · Sexuality · Women
Spark: Misogyny in Christianity vs. Islam
July 11th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Over at Screaming into the Void.
Tags: Belief · Bible · Bible Study · Christianity · Church and State · Current Events · Dialog · Ethics · Feminism · Gender · Getting over Religion · Islam · Links · Religion · Sexuality · Spark · Women
More Fun Quotes for MoF
June 30th, 2008 · by xJane · 3 Comments
I’ve been collecting emails since the success of the last Fun Quotes post. Without further ado:
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
-James Kern Feibleman, philosopher and psychiatrist (1904-1987)
This is definitely something I’ve believed in for awhile. It’s just nice to hear someone with authority say it (in this case, the […]
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“Dying Wish”
June 21st, 2008 · by xJane · 6 Comments
on Fox. I don’t know how long that link will work…there’s a YouTube of it somewhere, too, I may imbed it below a fold later when I find it.
This is my father, busy exploiting his illness for his life-long pet project: “the right to life”. Which I’ve learned translates into “the denial of rights”, “inadequate […]
Tags: Death · Ethics · Feminism · Getting over Religion · Humanity · Justice · Law · Links · Personal
Spark: Loving
May 15th, 2008 · by xJane · 4 Comments
Mildred Loving, half of the Loving couple who battled antimiscegination laws through the Supreme Court died (yes I’m late to this). And already the wolves are claiming her as an historical figure for their side in the homosexual marriage battle. Unfortunately, she already chose a side. Read her words here. Religion Dispatches has a great […]
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Was anyone watching these rights…?
April 16th, 2008 · by xJane · 1 Comment
The Interfaith Alliance is keeping tabs on the race for Pastor in Chief of the United States of America and sums up the top ten creeptastic moments that remind us that, and I quote,
no religious Test shall ever be required as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust under the United States
Good thing we […]
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on “4000″
March 25th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
All the news (and blogosphere) seems able to talk about today is the fact that the official number of American soldiers killed in Iraq since we went back to war there has reached 4000. There was not one (un)lucky person who tips the scales to a nice, round, reportable number, but 4. And this morning, […]
Tags: Current Events · Death · Ethics · Ghosts · Humanity · Meditation & Prayer · Pacifism · Peace; conflict resolution.
Annoyed by the appropriation of words that are inherently good
March 19th, 2008 · by xJane · 7 Comments
Anyone notice, as PZMyers pointed out recently, that everything with the word “Family” in it is bad? Or at least a synonym for “traditional”. It drives me crazy because family is such a great concept: whether I’m talking about my family, that lives under my roof, and consists of my husband, two cats, and innumerable […]
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Yet another discussion of femininity in this race
March 13th, 2008 · by xJane · 9 Comments
heh, didn’t originally mean race like that, but it works that way, too.
A recent book is out, called the New Feminized Majority: How Democrats Can Change America With Women’s Values. I’d like them to have a few quotation marks in that title (”…Change American With “Women’s Values”…”), but it certainly looks interesting. Feminist Law Professors […]
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When Sexism Hits Home
March 11th, 2008 · by xJane · No Comments
Once a week I work out with a bunch of (250lb) men. Republican men. And most often, they treat me like one of the guys, which is how I like it. Occasionally, I have to remind them that “I won’t break”, but for the most part, they don’t often remember that I’m a woman. Recently, […]
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