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The Fistfight Fallacy: rape culture’s ahistorical premise
Trigger warning: I'm fighting back against a rape apologist's claim, and some of this material...
April 20, 2013
Sexism, Judgment Day and Forgetting as a Survival Skill
Sometimes, my mind goes through a litany of abuse that I can't stop. From my...
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December 20, 2012
You can’t stop the reign of guns and patriarchy without talking about religion
Americans have come to expect certain conversations after public shooting incidents. It's a stain on...
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I Voted! (Suck it, Mr. Branham.)
Growing up fundamentalist, I was reminded on a near monthly basis that I shouldn't be...
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Sexuality Project: Sex Education and the Body, Q. 2
The following is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. Read the previous...
October 17, 2012
Evangelical Christian Marriage: Hawking the Product
In evangelical Christian culture, marriage is a commodity. Marriage books are sold like gardening manuals...
October 15, 2012
Checking Out of Privilege: Timothy Kurek’s “The Cross in the Closet” and What it Means to Change Your Identity
What do John Howard Griffin, Barbara Ehrenreich, Timothy Kurek and Rachel Held Evans have in...
August 2012
August 30, 2012
Ann Romney’s Gendered Martyrdom: “Women and Children First”?
Credit isn't all it's cracked up to be. I'm not talking about your credit score...
August 01, 2012
“I Don’t Hate Gay People, They Just Shouldn’t Get Married”: Chick-fil-A’s Supporters Need a Lesson on Structural Violence
Chick-fil-A sent ripples through my church in the early noughties; I still have no real...
July 2012
July 27, 2012
Doug Wilson Continues Attention-Seeking Rants Against Rachel Held Evans, Feminists
I blame Libby Anne for sharing this link and making me write despite my sore wrist!...
July 21, 2012
Misogynist Pastor Doug Wilson Continues Gaslighting His Critics
Gaslighting is a term derived from the 1944 film Gaslight. Here's an excerpt from the...
July 21, 2012
Gospel Coalition’s Jared C. Wilson issues an apology for Doug Wilson post; Rachel Held Evans accepts
Breaking: Whether or not the ripples of the Doug Wilson drama have truly subsided yet,...
July 20, 2012
Slacktivist: When a lack of anger reveals a lack of love
Fred Clark recently posted one of the most powerful endorsements of anger at injustice I...
July 19, 2012
Doug Wilson’s Daughters Defend Him by Attacking Rachel Held Evans
Them's Fightin' Words and Daddy Issues are the responses of Bekah and Rachel (Lizzie), daughters of Doug...
July 19, 2012
Doug Wilson on The Gospel Coalition: How Christian Patriarchy Turns Sex into Rape and Pregnancy into Slavery
Trigger warning for rape and sexual abuse. Jared Wilson unwittingly set off a flare in...
July 08, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 3
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 06, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 2
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
July 06, 2012
Wifely Submission and Honoring, Cherishing and Loving Your Wife as Your Own Body
Leaders of the Christian Patriarchy Movement and their disciples (minor pastors who covet their attention)...
July 05, 2012
Sexuality Project: Romantic Relationships, Q. 1
This is an installment of the Religious Fundamentalism and Sexuality Project. You can read the full...
June 2012
June 15, 2012
Modesty, Body Policing, and Empowerment: The Hijab (Part One)
The Guardian recently published an article by Nadiya Takolia titled "The hijab has liberated me from...
June 14, 2012
Christian Fundamentalist Homophobia, Part Three: Finding Unconditional Love Outside the Church
Trigger warning: The following post contains frank descriptions of the hate speech against LGBTQ people...
June 10, 2012
Rachel Held Evans: Is Patriarchy Really God’s Dream for the World?
Rachel Held Evans has just followed up the discussion linked in my last post with the literary...
June 09, 2012
Christian Patriarchy and Complementarianism: “Separate But Equal” Puts on Lipstick
Complementarianism is a lie. Yeah. It's fake. It doesn't exist. What does exist is patriarchy in...
May 2012
May 25, 2012
Quick Hits: Modesty, LGBTQ, and “Honoring” Women
A North Carolina pastor's anti-gay tirade has gone viral on youtube. He proposes sending all...
May 20, 2012
Libby Anne: Christian Patriarchy and Bodily Ownership
(Note: This is cross-posted from Love, Joy, Feminism. The original is here.) By Libby Anne...
April 2012
April 11, 2012
Bedroom Submission, Birth Control and Tokophobia
Like most fundamentalist churches, mine taught that wives were commanded by God to give their...
April 10, 2012
Emotional Incest: The Bottom Line
My last two posts, and indeed all my thinking on the subject has led me...
April 05, 2012
Emotional Incest: The Mama’s Boy and the Other Woman
I have already written about the ways that growing up in fundamentalist-evangelical culture made me...
April 04, 2012
Emotional Incest: The Junior Wife
Libby Anne has begun a series on Emotional Incest at Love, Joy, Feminism. In her...
March 2012
March 29, 2012
Why I Don’t Use Bible Verses as Evidence
It has been noted that my writing comes from experience and is secular in nature....
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