Feminism
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Atheist Priorities in Fundraising
Consider two examples of crowdfunding projects aimed at atheists. Just before the holidays, Secular Student Alliance announced that it would be matching funds donated to the Los Angeles-based Women’s Leadership Project. As stated on its Indiegogo page, Women’s Leadership Project (WLP) fills a vacuum in a school district that has few programs that specifically address the intersection of sexism, racism, misogyny…
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She Said Yes: When Consent Is Coerced
I want to talk about some of the ways that people manipulate each other in inappropriate ways into having sex. Any time you coerce someone, guilt them, or manipulate them in any way in order to get them to have sex with you, that is sex without consent. It is inappropriate and unacceptable. However from my experience and the experiences…
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Global Quickies: 04/01/14
BRAZIL The ceremonial kick for the 2014 FIFA World Cup may be made by a paralyzed teenager using a mechanical exoskeleton controlled by the teen’s brain designed by the Walk Again Project. INDIA (TW for sexual violence) A 16-year-old girl was burned to death by the men who had gang-raped her twice. That same day they had threatened her with…
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Being the Wet Blanket
Feminists are often accused of having no sense of humor, of having a stick up their asses, or of being curmudgeons. And I’m going to be honest: many times I feel like I am the wet blanket. I can’t enjoy many of the movies and TV shows that I used to because I notice how screwed up they are, I…
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Top Video Games of 2013
It’s the end of the year! That means it’s time for lists! Hooray! I was a big gamer growing up, but once I got to college, I got sick of being harassed for daring to be a woman who plays video games and basically stopped gaming for years. I finally got back into gaming, and so I’m going to share my…
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Global Quickies: 28/12/13
It’s Massacre of the Innocents Day, when millions of Catholics in Spanish-speaking countries think the appropriate way to celebrate toddlers being murdered is with pranks. UNITED ARAB EMIRATES The Norwegian woman sentenced to prison for “illicit sex” after she reported a colleague raped her, has been pardoned and freed. Her rapist was also freed since a rape conviction requires either…
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New Parenting Blog Launched!
Today the Skepchick Network is proudly unrolling our new skeptical parenting blog, Grounded Parents! (Intro to the new site x-posted from GroundedParents.com) Welcome to Grounded Parents, the Skepchick Network’s new skeptical parenting blog! I’m Elyse Mofo Anders, managing editor and 6 year veteran contributor to our parent site Skepchick, and qualified to be here because somehow someone got the idea…
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Hot Sauce Over Humanity: On Sriracha
Recently, the Internet has been abuzz about the possibility of a shortage of Sriracha, aka Rooster or Cock sauce. Most pieces, even from publications and blogs whose pieces I normally at least somewhat like, relegate what the residents’ complaints are to a parenthetical (literally) reference. It turns out that something truly, sincerely horrible is being glossed over by the breezy,…
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