No, Rush Limbaugh Did Not Hijack Your Parents’ Christianity
We’ve all heard the stories, and some of us have seen it with our own…
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The Southern Baptists Dumped a Predator or Two, but Let’s Hold Off on the F-word
The #metoo and #churchtoo movements have put SBC leaders on the defensive, as earlier revelations of widespread child sexual abuse by priests did to the all-male Roman Catholic hierarchy. Yet both groups continue to deny that there could be any connection between all-male power and the sexual abuse of women and children.
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How Men’s Rights Activists Are Finding Unlikely Allies in New Atheism: #MeToo, the Manosphere, and the “Church of Feminism”
Anyone familiar with the Internet’s “Manosphere” will be unsurprised to learn that “Red Pillers” and…
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“The Slut Assumption”: Myths About Jewelry Reveal Diamonds Aren’t Always A Girl’s Best Friend
Author Wendy Doniger answers RD’s 10 Questions
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The Passion of the Slayer: On Buffy’s Twentieth, “The Big Bad” Is Still Out There
Buffy the Vampire Slayer. To the uninitiated, it sounds like a bad joke. That’s your…
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What a Forgotten 19th Century Suffragist Can Teach Us About Women’s Rights vs. The Religious Right
19th century women’s rights activist Matilda Joslyn Gage sought equal rights for all, but only by rethinking religion.
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The Irony of Moral Panic over Surplus Men
You know the moral panic over unemployed men has reached epic proportions when it’s enough…
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Why Feminism’s Big Tent Isn’t Big Enough for the Anti-Abortion Movement
Those big, bad pro-abortion feminists! To hear it from even stalwarts of the mainstream liberal…
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‘Catholic Feminist’ Isn’t an Oxymoron, and Other Tales From a Beleaguered Tradition
In her latest book, journalist Celia Wexler explores the conflicted feelings many Catholic women have towards their faith and the attempts to make peace with the institutions and traditions that fail them.
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Ross Douthat: Trump Is Women’s Fault for Not Having More Babies
According to NYT columnist Ross Douthat, the lousy choices available to us on election day are all women’s fault.
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