This is a power move. Expressed by even the best of men, the sentiment likely originated to remind human beings of their own mortality. Typical first encounters with it, after all, are when children are warned to curb a vanity yet to develop. If this is true, it has since evolved to remind only women—and …
Continue reading Beauty Fades, and other Ridiculous Things Men Say
This email has been brought to you by questions from straight people like yours truly. To "fellow allies" or whatever, I don't know whether I'm an LGBT ally. I don't talk about how much of an ally I am or about being an ally. That is because the decision is not mine. My intention is …
Continue reading LGBT people get to decide whether you are their ally; you don’t.
I will never defend, accept, or fail to denounce a depiction of the Prophet by a Westerner, regardless of their excuse, progressive or offensive. Depicting the Prophet is an injustice, and it is an injustice because the West has a habit of ignoring the copyright-by-virtue-of-existing laws, those which it conveniently affords itself, when regarding the …
no true scotsman 1.1 this cannot be a true Muslim true Muslims are terrorists at a fundamental(ist) level friendly feminist fire: you cannot be a true religious woman; religion is anti-feminist and what you practice is not bandwagon 2.1 a man of color accuses a woman of racism for rejecting his advances because white men …
Continue reading a lesson in logical fallacies, to my critical thinking instructors
In Texas, a 16-year-old girl sued her parents who were pressuring her to abort her pregnancy. She won her case. While the pressure itself is not illegal (and shouldn't be, even though it sucks), some of the extreme methods of coercion on which the parents unfortunately relied definitely should be illegal, because these are consistent …
Continue reading Girl Sues Her Parents for the Right to Carry a Pregnancy to Term
Admittedly, even as a Western woman, I still grapple with the role of nudity in the feminist movement--the only real incorporation of it that I understood entirely had been the Slutwalks, and that is because the message wasn't, "I am free to be sexy!" but, "You can't rape me if I am, and you can't …
Continue reading Why Nudity Doesn’t Work (for Islamic Feminism)
Dear readers, there are few "Islamic" [?!] practices that I reject entirely (actually I can only think of this one), but if I were to toss out any--any at all--it would be the practice of "giving away" the bride. Fuck that noise, seriously. This is one of those things that is mandated nowhere in the …
Continue reading And the Patriarchy Lunges: the Purpose of the Wali
the fatal feminist 