"Man"ifesto
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Reviews on Monday, December 21, 2009
Have you seen the new “wear the pants” ad from Dockers?
A girlfriend gives the ad a big thumbs up.
She posted this, with a link to the ad in question, to her Facebook page:
“Last month, in a rare outing without the kids, but still visibly pregnant, I was on a full airport shuttle between the gates and baggage claim. Women, including myself, and elderly folks were standing, some moms were sitting... READ MORE
Does Having More Kids Mean More Happiness?
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, November 09, 2009
Hmmm, this feels like a “no duh” kind of scientific finding, but sadly, in today’s world, it is shocking news:
For married individuals of all ages and married women in particular, children increase life satisfaction and life satisfaction goes up with the number of children in the household. Negative experiences in raising children are reported by people who are separated, living... READ MORE
Killed for Being a Girl
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Monday, April 13, 2009
Of course, none of us is surprised to read the “news” that China has 32 million more boys than girls under the age of 20.
But I was disturbed.
Though I know that China’s one-child policy has led to Chinese baby girls being aborted at alarming rates, seeing the numbers really brings the injustice into the light:
32 million more boys than girls. That’s a lot of missing babies.
This kind of news story... READ MORE
Women Deserve Better
Posted by Danielle Bean in News on Wednesday, April 01, 2009
Access to abortion liberates women and makes them equal partners in their intimate relationships with men, right?
That’s what most modern-day feminists would have you believe anyway.
Sadly, though, reality is that easy access to abortion not only destroys human life, but also threatens to turn “liberated” women and their bodies into objects men can use and discard at whim.
A painful case in point:... READ MORE
‘Keeping Women Down’ With Breastfeeding
Posted by Danielle Bean in Family on Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Well, well, well.
I suppose it was only a matter of time before I read a feminist, anti-breastfeeding article like Hannah Rosin’s The Case Against Breastfeeding in this month’s Atlantic (HT: Crunchy Con).
Rosin is unconvinced by medical evidence that breastfeeding is a superior form of nutrition for human babies. And she may have a point there. Some of the studies comparing breastfeeding to formula... READ MORE
The Old Feminism
Posted by Rachel Balducci in Family on Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Several years ago, I came across a picture of a current celebrity (Ashley Judd maybe?) wearing a svelte little black t-shirt. Emblazoned across the front, in large white letters, was the following phrase: THIS Is What A Feminist Looks Like.
That evening, all I could think about was that t-shirt. I thought about it while I vacuumed the playroom. I thought about it while I tucked my young sons into... READ MORE
‘Feminine Genius’ Revisited
Posted by Rebecca Teti in Faith&Culture on Friday, July 11, 2008
The summer I graduated from high school I took an internship in journalism before going to college. It was the late 1980s and the hot domestic topics all concerned “women’s issues.” Not just the social issues we associate with radical feminism, but questions about equality generally.
“Glass ceiling” entered the journalistic lexicon; economists noted the inequality of women’s wages in comparison with... READ MORE
Can’t Get There From Here
Posted by Rebecca Teti in News on Monday, June 30, 2008
It intrigues me how often false paths to liberation lead not just to slavery, but to the precise form of slavery from which they were intended to liberate us. To wit: among the reasons “second wave” feminists (by which I mean those pressing an agenda beyond suffrage and equal dignity before the law) were so hostile to marriage was they saw it as an instrument of subjugation in which women were... READ MORE
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