My friends say I'm the bravest one. We pick movies and I almost always want a horror film, with a good dose of psychological thriller, and I tend to burst into laughter at the parts that make them jump. When there are repeatedly strange occurrences, I'm the first to walk forward and examine, ready to …
Author: TFF
Myth: The Rape Fantasy
Today I read someone claim that because some women have "rape" fantasies, they must be motivated by a sex drive that causes them to subconsciously behave in a manner that would allow them to "fulfill" these fantasies, impacting their impulses and the way they dress and behave as well as what they notice and their …
“I don’t identify as a Muslim feminist because those women are total bitches.”
God loves not the utterance of loud unpleasant speech except from one who is being oppressed. And God is Hearing, Knowing. (Qur’an [An-Nisa] 4:148) *cough* Awwwkward.
“Sisters in the back, quiet down please.”
A Free Radical produced an excellent post a week ago titled "Some other reasons you won't find me at the masjid" --which I highly recommend. I do regularly visit the mosque, and I must, because I have plans to reclaim it (or else build my own) but the post, in conjunction with woodturtle's "keeping our …
9/11
I couldn't write because I don't have a story. I don't remember anything but the towers burning. And animosity. At school I pledged allegiance to a flag half mast and a country I never betrayed a country that had betrayed me. I didn't cry. because I was unworthy of shedding tears. Who cares if the …
The Qur’an Is Blatantly Anti-Patriarchal
This entire post adds commentary to Asma Barlas' book "Believing Women in Islam": Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an. I highly recommend it. Reverence Your God Who created you from a single person Created, of similar nature, its mate and from them twain scattered like seeds countless men and women;-- Reverence God, through Whom ye …
On my period
as of two days ago. I must say that recording it here every month is spectacularly helpful in letting me know when to expect it. (Although the telltale cramps the evening before are also unpleasantly helpful.) New to this? Here's an explanation. My nails are red this month. (*makes obscene period joke*) Unfortunately they are …
the fatal feminist 