Reading Time: < 1 minute The ever lost in thought, Blinky, ponders what the strangest of creatures, girls, are thinking when not carefully monitored by males.
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Christianity, Virginity and Sex – Guest Post by Karen L. Garst
Reading Time: 7 minutes There are unlikely any two memes in Christianity that have done more to subordinate women than the issues of virginity and sexual desire. From the story of Eve’s bite of fruit in the Garden of Eden to the gospel stories of Jesus’ virgin birth, these two issues have been intertwined for 3,000 years to the […]
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Internalised Patriarchy and Posting Tweets
Reading Time: < 1 minute Internalising patriarchy is a term that can be used to refer to incidents when women perpetuate sexist ideology through their own behaviour. The idea is that as women are themselves victim to skewed ideas of gender roles, and gender, within society, that hey can end up saying and doing things that fall in line with […]
Posted inGeneral, Myth & Folklore
Living in the House of Cannibals
Reading Time: 3 minutes This weekend, some folklore colleagues and I watched an Estonian film titled “Nukitsamees” which translates to “Little Bumpy” (the title character is a little witch child with horns). The plot begins rather like the Western fairy tale “Hansel and Gretel” with a brother and sister lost in the woods, taken to the home of a […]