So apparently Bic has come out with new pens especially for women! At last! Now with pens made especially for me in soft pastel colors to indicate my gender, I don't ever have to worry about being mistaken for male and--God forbid--taken seriously! After all, colors like blue and black were far too strong for …
Continue reading The Best Thing You Will Read Today (via Jill Filipovic)
This post is brought to you by some schmuck who took it upon himself during an abortion debate, in which he was distressed that I would legalize late-term abortions, to inform me that there is no such thing as inalienable rights, and that rights are “whatever humans decide they are” and therefore I cannot assert …
Continue reading Abortion is a right. At any and all times. (or, American Principles 101)
I am writing this post despite the sense that the last three posts I wrote unrelated to Islam are about race and I am kind of eyeing how it throws off my usual variation here. Before I introduce all the twitter drama, let me recount the incident to which it refers—infamously christened EG, or ElevatorGate. …
Continue reading “White atheists are the WORST!”: Discrepancies in Identifying Racism
If you all remember from years ago, the Atlantic published a terrible article titled “The End of Men” which was basically a total bitchfest run rampant with blame-shifting—about three quarters of it consisted of complaining that men can’t get laid anymore because women have restored too many rights, including our right to refuse. Remembering this, …
Charity, it's so overrated. Washington Post, via Feministe A prominent U.S. Catholic nuns group said Thursday that it was “stunned” that the Vatican reprimanded it for spending too much time on poverty and social-justice concerns and not enough on condemning abortion and gay marriage. In a stinging report on Wednesday, the Vatican said the Leadership …
mankind manpower manfully headmaster firemen policemen mailmen man-eating You got a problem with ‘feminist’ because the word inherently excludes you? Check your privilege and get the hell over it. You can treat women equally as much as you like but as long as you’re saying shit like this the truth is that you don’t CONSIDER …
Continue reading Why I don’t give a damn that you have a linguistic issue with ‘FEMinist’
This post is brought to you by a bewildering conversation I had a while ago in which an XY tried to mansplain to me that his interpretation of a specific verse pertaining to women is not unjust because it is from God, and therefore [what is from God] cannot unjust. (Read: His interpretation is from …
Continue reading Rejecting Your Sense of Justice is Rejecting a Device of God
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