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Minister resigns over same-sex marriage

Reverend Howard Hanger, a minister in the United Methodist Church, has chosen to resign his ministry and ordination because the denomination and the state of North Carolina refuse to recognize same-sex marriages. In a statement released this morning, he said:...

Another self-serving personality test

Also seen many places: I am a: The description is accurate, I believe. I scored lowest on confidence and agency (hello? grad school?), and on authoritarianism. I scored highest on aestheticism, imaginativeness, spontaneity, trust, and openness....

iPod divination

As seen many places: Instructions: Go to your music player of choice and put it on shuffle. Say the following questions aloud, and press play. Use the song title as the answer to the question. NO CHEATING. How does the...

Strawmen and women

When I taught argumentative (non-formal) logic, George W., and right-wingers more generally, were a reliable source of logical fallacies. ("You're either with us or you're with the terrorists" - fallacy of the false dichotomy.) Good to know they haven't let...

Raising feminist men

Bitch. Ph.D.'s pseudonymous kid - who is, I think, like four - has learned the word feminism. Scene: the boys have returned from grocery shopping. Mr. B. hands me some toothpaste to take up to the bathroom. It has three...

It’s allegedly spring

Here is the collar I'm eyeing for Lugh. Here is the kind of tag I want to get for him (the site gallery is great). I just returned from five days in NYC with Phaon, Lugh, and the friends we...

Commenting as Cleis

For whatever reason, my site doesn't attract a lot of jerks. I hardly ever have to deal with nasty comments, and unlike the cool feminist bloggers, I've never gotten hate mail. I think I'm just not that widely read. However,...

Pregnancy isn’t something that just happens to women

I was really enjoying this smart piece about pregnancy, motherhood, and abortion over at Shakespeare's Sister - only to reach the end and discover that it's written by feminist philosopher Hilde Lindemann. Cool. It's good to see feminist philosophers in...

Transatlantic liason

There's a play on in New York whose story is based on the letters between Simone de Beauvoir and her lover, the American author Nelson Algren. "Transatlantic Liason", by Fabrice Rozié, runs through early April. (Can I get to NYC...

If my eyes were better, I could see 40 from here.

(Image made here.)...