On Putting the Needs of Other People Before Yours
I once stated that I was happy I made my father happy. I sacrificed having a wedding to please my father. My mother convinced me to make him happy. Looking back upon it, it makes me feel as if my feelings are not important. They weren’t that time, anyway. I had a very small wedding. I don’t know if I wanted a big one but I wanted a secular one. I wanted a comedian to perform a very short ceremony followed by a more-casual-than-most type of reception. Since I had to have the Jewish...
Read MoreChiropractic as seen by this Skeptic
I’m fairly skeptical, but I wasn’t always. I’ve been to chiropractors before. Two of them, in my lifetime. I never paid for it. The first was someone who was friends with my parents and never charged me. The second was paid through my insurance; I think it was seen as preventative care. Some companies won’t take any chance you’ll come back to sue. The Reason I Initially Went My back hurt. Neither practitioner used woo-ridden phrases or spoke of realigning chakras....
Read MoreMarketed Beauty Products
Lately men have been getting a dose of what women have been getting for a lot longer. Though, equality is still way off in the distance. Most of the beauty products marketed to women (and, more recently, men) seem to be full of empty promises. I can’t speak about every beauty product out there in one sweeping remark but I’d bet that most them are unnecessary lies. It’s about time that men finally get a piece of that pie, though it’d be best for no one to have to receive...
Read MoreI’ve been struggling with the word “Feminist” lately. I should specify: I’m an Equity Feminist.
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking over feminism and it’s meaning. What I’ve come to realize is that it’s not the word that’s the problem, it’s perception. Well, the word is partially at fault. The word had a different meaning when women had less rights. I mean, look around at all those before have fought and died for so that I could vote or be on birth control pills. Disregarding these strides women have made only disrespects those brave people who...
Read MoreSexist Behavior in Popular Political Culture
There’s been some talk of sexism in US politics lately and right off the heels of supposed sexism in the atheist/skeptic community. It’s not that sexism doesn’t exist in the atheist community but it’s surely not a bigger problem than any other given community, at least as I see it as of yet. I think some people expect more from the atheist and skeptic groups and have come to the realization that it’s the similar to most others. Recently, Allen West said Debbie...
Read MoreWhile what Richard Dawkins said is insensitive, I see where he’s coming from
First, we have this: Dear Muslima Stop whining, will you. Yes, yes, I know you had your genitals mutilated with a razor blade, and . . . yawn . . . don’t tell me yet again, I know you aren’t allowed to drive a car, and you can’t leave the house without a male relative, and your husband is allowed to beat you, and you’ll be stoned to death if you commit adultery. But stop whining, will you. Think of the suffering your poor American sisters have to put up with. Only this...
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