Posted in General, tagged abortion, atheism, circumcision, education, female genital mutilation, feminism, fgm, gay rights, politics, religion, secularism on Friday, March 14, 2014| 8 Comments »
I'm tired of having the nice, polite-sounding Why should we have the right to stop child-circumcision? debate. Let's call it what it is. Let's have the open and frank Why the hell should you be allowed to mutilate your children's genitalia? debate.
Likewise, let's not have the Why should abortion be legal? debate. Let's have the Why should we force women to donate the use of their body to another organism? debate.
Posted in General, tagged atheism, child abuse, circumcision, female genital mutilation, fgm, religion on Friday, February 7, 2014| 3 Comments »
Re-posting this from last October. Because: reasons.
They have no autonomy
And you have all the power
So you prune off their anatomy;
Like you'd dead-head fading flowers.
Posted in General, tagged atheism, child abuse, education, female genital mutilation, feminism, fgm, law, politics, religion on Thursday, February 6, 2014| 29 Comments »
From Change.org:
You wouldn't think school girls in the UK have to worry about female genital mutilation (FGM), but we do. Although it is illegal in the UK, it is still happening – 24,000 girls in the UK are currently at risk of FGM. People just don't talk about it, doctors don't check for it and teachers don't teach it.
Posted in General, tagged atheism, creationists, female genital mutilation, feminism, fgm, fundies, religion, sexism, woo on Friday, September 9, 2011| Leave a Comment »
I’d been thinking of doing something like this for a while, and, as Nat over at Forty Shades Of Grey recently accused me of reading her mind by making all her points before she could, I thought I’d turn the tables and do it just after she just had, thus showing that it seems to be a two-way street. And—imitation being the best form of flattery—I reorganised my sketchy notes on it and nicked her ordering and headings, too. 🙂
It concerns, if you didn’t click the link, the arguments from the opposition that we see over and over again. While some are actually meant seriously, the vast majority of times you see them, they’re from trolls; people who aren’t actually trying to make a serious case rather than just muddy the waters.
Of course, Nat did it from a feminist perspective, where I’ve gone for the gnu-atheist perspective, so there’s bound to be some differences. Indeed, if there were none, I’d have just linked to her article. As it is, the two are similar enough to lead one to the conclusion that a conservative troll of little imagination is still a conservative troll of little imagination, no matter their specific area of conservatism, whilst being dissimilar enough for me to add something new.
[Added at the last minute. Talking of Forty Shades Of Grey, Facebook users really need to read Nat’s latest post. Words fail me, they really do. On the lighter side, I have a substitute YouTube link.]
Right then, let’s be about it…
The Dixie Flatline 