Category Archives: blogs

God, the egalitarian

Posted on November 3, 2008 by

Try googling “feminist Spirituality” (googling a subject matter is often my point of entry, as you might have realized, if you read any of my other entries), “mainstream” feminist spirituality is often connected with some version of essentialist feminism – … Continue reading →

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What’s Wrong with Marriage?

Posted on September 23, 2008 by

Patriarchy fucks as all (or gather doesn’t fuck at all) Below is a brief “chat” with a man who is relatively progressive – a good friend, and used to be rather kinky back in the day. Me: I am still … Continue reading →

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The pregnant body is the most political image on earth

Posted on September 2, 2008 by

The pregnant body is the most political image on earth. The pregnancy of Bristol Palin, the daughter of the gun toting, bible thumbing, baby popping, Republican V. P Candidate, Sarah Palin finally motivated me to write. Why is it surprising, … Continue reading →

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where have the feminist gynos gone?

Posted on July 23, 2008 by

A review of Capital Women’s Care I’ve always been a pick-you- gyno –out-of the-yellow-pages kind of girl, since all I needed was the birthcontrol prescription, and the gyno was the gatekeeper of the goods. At my University Health Center, the … Continue reading →

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Fat Girl Bikini

Posted on May 9, 2008 by

I googled “fat girl bikini” using several possible word combinations (ex: big girl bikini, fat bikini, plus sized bikini). Besides the fabulous post from Dairy of a Fat teenager, I found practically nothing. Main stream plus size fashion stores, such … Continue reading →

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Modesty is a dirty word.

Posted on February 19, 2008 by

A few weeks ago a story surfaced about Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Israel wearing a garment a kin to a “burka” as a way of up-ing the anti on modesty. The original Haartz article on this issue is in Hebrew, … Continue reading →

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The one who teaches his daughter math is teaching her to lasciviousness

Posted on February 14, 2008 by

The modern day version of “the one who teaches his daughter Torah is teaching her lasciviousness” (Talmud, Sotah 20a) has arrived. An article in the Seattle Times links an increase in education for girls to an increase in drugs, alcohol … Continue reading →

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A win for teen sex

Posted on December 9, 2007 by

It is true, that I walk through the world relating back most of what I see and hear to questions of human sexuality and gender. But this time I’m definitely not just “seeing things”, there really is a win for … Continue reading →

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Does sex cause depression?! and Shmuley Boteach

Posted on September 4, 2007 by

It’s been a while since I posted last. I left good-old Zionist Israel and moved to DC, to study Law. (Two weeks in and I still have my idealism, Still hoping to change the world, and all that jazz J … Continue reading →

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Last Word on FASD

Posted on July 6, 2007 by

So, I looked up Kathryn Page PHD, and she is big in the world of FAS. Her site: http://www.nofas.org/resource/results.aspx?ST=5&Name=California She blaims FASD on everything from Epilepsy to loneliness. Thus clearly it a problem if it can cause any problem, and … Continue reading →

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