Reading Time: 4 minutes Conservative theologians sputter with rage at the notion of using female or non-gendered pronouns to refer to God, but they have no rational explanation for why this offends them so deeply.
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Posted inReligious News
The murder of Mahsa Amini: Is this what happens when religion rules?
Reading Time: 2 minutes Last week, Mahsa Amini died from an alleged “heart attack” while in police custody during a visit to Tehran, the capital of Iran. Her crime? Showing her hair. Amini’s murder has sparked mass protests and at least 17 deaths across Iran as well as global outrage in the days since. For Americans, it is all […]
Posted inLeaving Religion
I belong to me: Learning agency and consent after Christianity
Reading Time: 8 minutes OnlySky · I belong to me | Dani Ward Lately, I’ve been thinking a lot about the concepts of agency and autonomy, how necessary they are for a fulfilling life…and how impossible they are when consent is ignored. I’ve been realizing with a growing sense of anger and frustration that I had no grasp of […]
Posted inReligion
Beautiful ideas, beautiful buildings, terrible evils
Reading Time: 5 minutes Religion exemplifies the dichotomy of the human spirit: the same churches that gave birth to uplifting philosophies and great works of art are also guilty of horrendous crimes against humanity.
Posted inSatire
Time travel abortion? Sign some up, others say
Reading Time: 3 minutes Who doesn’t love science fictiony concepts like reproductive rights?
Posted inCulture, General, Sex & Gender
Stop Building Plots on Women’s Bodies
Reading Time: 5 minutes This post contains spoilers for Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame. Consider yourselves warned (fyi, the blog image is from the trailer, so it is not itself a spoiler for anything).
Posted inCulture, General, Myth & Folklore, Sex & Gender
If Your Culture Treats Women Like Crap, Then Maybe Your Culture Is Crap
Reading Time: 4 minutes Bouncing between large- and small-scale evaluations of a culture can be complicated sometimes, but I think it gets less complicated when we reduce the issue to: does the culture under discussion dehumanize roughly half its population, y/n?
Posted inCulture, General, Myth & Folklore, Sex & Gender
Two Reasons for Men to Hate Women
Reading Time: 4 minutes While I’m thrilled that we’re finally having an extended conversation about violence against women on a larger cultural scale, I also want to talk about the reasons behind said violence, focusing on two major reasons for men to hate women.
Posted inSex & Gender
Emma Thompson’s Atheism Due to Oppression of Women
Reading Time: 5 minutes The oppression of women is certainly something that goes hand in hand with religio-political systems. She has recently starred in a film The Children Act, which looks a fascinating film that I wouldn’t mind watching. In an interview concerning the film, she recently stated: What is your own take on the moral and ethical debate that this […]
Posted inCulture, General, Sex & Gender
Why I’m Cool with Pair-Bonding But Not Enforced Monogamy
Reading Time: 5 minutes Speaking out against enforced monogamy doesn’t mean you’re anti-monogamy; it’s entirely possible that many people benefit from monogamy, because a lot of humans are driven to pair-bond. However, making the conversation about reducing violence raises problems and often misses nuances.