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For the Billionth Time, Women Are Not Too Angry

By David Sessions On April 3, 2013 · 5 Comments · In Religion

Sometimes you realize you need to give a serious response to things that are wrong on the internet, and sometimes you realize all that needs to be said is: isn’t that the worst?

I can summarize the argument of this pointlessly long article in one sentence: In [...]

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Katy Perry and Feminist Fundamentalists

By Jonathan D. Fitzgerald On December 19, 2012 · 3 Comments · In Culture

Katy Perry believes in the power of women, but she doesn’t consider herself a feminist, so she said recently upon accepting the honorific of “Woman of the Year” from Billboard’s Women in Music Awards.

Once, and not even all that long ago, there was a time when most feminist scholars and writers might have [...]

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How Women Ruined Men, the World, Everything, Etc

By David Sessions On November 27, 2012 · 7 Comments · In Politics

So this thing that should be an Onion article but isn’t is providing internet feminists and parodists with some delicious low-hanging fruit. According to Suzanne Venker, the niece and protégé of the famously hard-working, career-having anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, men are sad and [...]

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Why It's Suddenly OK For Christian Women to Be Feminists

By Alisa Harris On December 3, 2010 · 7 Comments · In Politics, Religion

A side point jumped out at me while reading this story in The Economist. The author asserted that evangelical women like Michele Bachmann, Nikki Haley, and Jan Brewer turn to politics because it is easier to thrive there than in “the stiflingly male evangelical subculture.”

The evangelical woman is an endlessly fascinating, [...]

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Evangelical Women Pretend They Aren't Feminists

By David Sessions On November 16, 2010 · 32 Comments · In Religion

Another entry into the praiseworthy journalism of Molly Worthen is this Sunday’s New York Times Magazine story on evangelical women who insist they “submit” to their husbands despite their daily life looking like every other companionate American marriage. Priscilla Shirer, the main character of the piece, is the daughter of [...]

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