Currently browsing category

Cultural Issues, Page 2

QOTD: Cosmo doubles down on the fail in response to “icky” self-defense comment

In case you were thinking that Cosmopolitan magazine was going to dial it down a notch or two in the aftermath of the outrage and disbelief over comments one of their managers made in response to Miss USA’s remarks on self defense in the context of campus rapes, think again. Cosmo sex editor Anna Breslaw stomped her feet and churned out this head-scratcher:.....   [Read More]

What do we have to do to win the culture war?

I read the below series of tweets from my friend @KemberleeKaye on a disturbing experience she had this morning at a local donut shop in Texas when she went to get breakfast. In a nutshell, a nice elderly lady in the store saw a homeless man sitting nearby and bought him a donut. She walked away and he followed her, asked if she was a Christian. She said yes. He said he refused to take charity from Christians because they “hated homosexuals.” She tried to leave the store and he followed her and threw the donut at her......   [Read More]

#BanBossy? How about let’s ban #FeministHypocrisy?

Much hay has been made over the last week over the campaign launched by Facebook COO and Girl Scouts CEO Anna Maria ChΓ‘vez called “Ban Bossy” – a movement that supposedly seeks to “empower” young girls by symbolically “banning” so-called hurtful words that allegedly “hold them back” from wanting to take leadership positions when they get older:.....   [Read More]