FNTT Season 8, Round 1: the Bitches Be Crazy edition
Sorry I’ve been MIA on this, folks! But this is the last of Round 1 of Feministe’s Next Top Troll. Vote below, and then we’ll have a run-off between this and the other Round 1 posts to see who will be named Feministe’s Next Top Troll. Background on FNTT here. Click through to read this round’s contenders. The usual reminder: Comments below are abusive, insulting and may be triggering.
...read moreA Conservative Argument for Birth Control
Conservatives like to say that they care about saving money, right? And that “Obamacare” is going to bankrupt the nation, the way that Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security apparently already are? Well here’s a great way to save $1.32 billion annually: Fund birth control.
...read moreThursday, NYC: Anew School Fundraiser
If you’re in New York this Thursday, March 8th, I hope you’ll join me at a fundraiser for Anew School, which has a mission “to provide unprecedented academic, emotional/mental health, and social training to “at-risk” African-American seventh and eighth grade youth in a school in Ghana.” It’ll be a fun night for a great cause.
...read more“I personally prefer the classic term ‘strumpet’.”
So Rush Limbaugh calls a Georgetown law student a slut and a prostitute for having the audacity to talk about birth control, and when pressed to respond Mitt Romney simply says, “It’s not the language I would have used.” Very cool. Very principled!
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement – Goals and Methods
I touched briefly on the goals of the Evangelical Christian Movement last time, but I wanted to take a couple paragraphs here to address them explicitly. In the broadest sense, the goal of both the modern and historical Evangelical Movement has been to convert as many souls to Christ as possible. For some sects this is the mission given to them by Christ. For other sects, this is how they will build the Army of God to defeat Satan and all his minions. For other sects, this is how they show God’s love.
...read moreShameless Self-Promotion Sunday
Do your thing.
...read moreRoss Shimabuku is a word that starts with A, and it’s not “awesome.”
NASCAR driver Danica Patrick is a “pretty girl,” “sexy and she knows it,” and something that starts with B, says Fox5 San Diego sports anchor Ross Shimabuku, who for some reason thought it was perfectly acceptable to more or less call a woman a bitch on the air.
...read moreThe Evangelical Movement: Part II
The Evangelical Christian Movement is a broad social and political group dedicated to reproducing a set of values that are antithetical to the very concept of social justice and equality.
...read moreThe Evangelical Christian Movement: An Introduction
Have you noticed a trend emerging from some of the more horrifying news reports recently?
...read moreIn which Prudie gets one totally right
...read moreQ. Looking for a Mrs. Degree: I attend a small university studying engineering. I hold traditional values and I would like to get married to a woman willing to stay home and raise our children.
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