Forgiveness vs. Being a Doormat (Part 2)

Part 1, here.
tanaudel, in comments to my post on the “doormat” side of this equation, summarizes nicely a lot of what the difference really is:
It seems to be far less about being a doormat and far more about being strong and gracious.
She describes this as something that can only happen once the wrong has [...]

Question: What Do We Stand To Gain?

Jill at Feministe links to yet another article talking about how rape statistics are exaggerated and proceeds to painstakingly take apart its logical flaws and rape apologetics. There are so damn many of these articles, however, and many of them include the notion that feminists are constantly inflating the proportion of women who have been [...]

Forgiveness vs. Being a Doormat (Part 1)

Forgiveness is one of the most important concepts in Christianity, and to my mind, one of the most misunderstood. I’ve mentioned before that my church service features a number of “lay” preachers (ie. non-clergy), which means that we get a somewhat different perspective on a lot of things. A few months ago, a close friend [...]

When Women Get Involved, Even Global Warming Becomes Quaint

Apparently, the NY Times had an article recently about “Eco-Moms”–women and/or housewives who devote time, energy and resources to environmentally friendly household management strategies. I hate registration, so I didn’t read the actual article, but Pandagon has one angle on why it’s pretty ridiculous on its face. The point that women become moral guardians and [...]

Lessons from Search Terms: The Radical Notion that Women are People

Of all the ways blogging teaches you about human nature, I think the strangest is suddenly having access to a few random moments in the mind of a few random strangers whose google search terms randomly lead them to your blog. Having the word “women” repeated all over my blog means the ones I get [...]

Stupid Racist Headline of the Day

Oh, Hamilton Spectator. When my expectations drop, you never fail to get worse in order to lower yourself to meet them.
This is the headline at the top of the front page of today’s issue:
Six Nations reaps bonanza in fees
Even before reading the article, this says to me: look at those greedy Indians, at it again. [...]

When the Way You Feel is Not a Valid Point

The feminist movement (not exclusively) has done a lot to legitimize speaking about one’s personal experiences. One of the most positive elements of feminism and feminist community, for me, has been the creation of space in which I can talk about what has happened to me, how I’ve felt about it and how I’ve recovered [...]

Headscarf Trees in the Misogyny Forest

Meaning, of course, missing the former for the latter.
This thread is a perfect example of why I don’t tend to read comment threads (or, frankly, comment all that often on them). The comments by Ms. Benli, the article summarizing them and the commentary offered by Jill are great. They’re about the forest. The forest [...]

Covert Attacks on Women’s Rights

Something I actually managed to miss whilst my computer–and hence brain, soul and entire being–was rendered useless this week was the announcement of a bill into parliament called the “Unborn Victims of Violence” act. Just like the abomination of a Supreme Court decision that got passed in the US last year, this strategy isn’t about [...]

Things I Will Never Understand, Part 7882

Okay, the blog binge for the day continues. Here’s the other thought I’ve been wishing I could get out of my head. In one of my rare forays into reading comment threads on popular-ish blogs, I waded through a lot of this thread at Pandagon. Since the general theme is parental notification on the reproductive [...]