Those things don't just happen to Muslim women. Suggesting that Muslim women need to be saved from themselves is condescending and tone deaf, and part of the reason western feminism isn't able to affect huge change in the cultures that do need it most.

Who Run The World?

TEAMRINGO FOREVER!!!

I was pretty grossed out by Miley's little number too. The bears and the grinding and the sports hand notwithstanding, what really bothers me about this is her instance that it's not only appropriate, but it's actually cool for her to fill her dance with black women as props. At best they're meant to look like…

It became a statewide supreme court ruling because the photography studio appealed a lower court ruling. Here's the sequence of events. They get discriminated against. They file a discrimination complaint with the New Mexico Human Rights Commission. The Human Rights Commission upholds the complaint and finds that the…

First of all, the couple filed a complaint with the state's Human Right's Commission who (from my understanding of how a similar commission in my state works) did the investigation and then the photographers appealed the finding of discrimination all the way to the the Supreme Court. Secondly, t's easy to say the…

Faith is the belief in that which can not be proven empirically. If the existence of a creator God can be proven with falsifiable evidence then faith is not required. I don't, for example, need faith to believe that Napoleon existed. There is evidence that he did exist and did things. Ergo, his existence is a fact…