( quotes about my all-time favorite career from Jessie Bernard, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Vladimir Lenin, Simone de Beauvoir, Betty Friedan, Gloria Steinem, Nena and George O'Neill, Elizabeth Fox-Genovese, Vivian Gornick, Kate Millett, and Jane J. Mansbridge )

( from a comment on a post at jillstanek.com )

so. hormone replacement drops drastically, so does breast cancer. hmm. hormone replacement and birth control pills both use the same hormones, estrogen and some form of progestin (artificial progesterone) to work. birth control pills don't use as much, but women tend to start them earlier (teens/20s) as opposed to during menopause (40s/50s) and use ( Read more... )

I've been musing some about why there are some women all fired up about wanting to become priests, and oh isn't Holy Mother Church such a patriarchal woman-hater ( Read more... )

evidently this is from Zippy - a comic that I don't read because it looks weird, and all the ones I've looked at make about zero sense to me. but I really like it, and it's probably THE best response I've ever read to the pro-abortion feminist's argument "it's my body, I can do what I want ( Read more... )

you know how there are some nasty, small-minded people out there who say stupid things like "if men could become pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament ( Read more... )

I was reading posts on The Cafeteria is Closed blog and came across one that dealt with Sister Sandra Schneiders, who was recently honored by the Catholic Theological Society of America. she's a nutjob. here, read this ( Read more... )

I go to a Catholic school. we are allowed to be publicly Catholic. so why does my school constantly try to downplay it? our religion classes are dopey. nothing is rigorous. religion classes are regarded as no-homework sleep-time. they have no content. we have one teacher who is a sister. she refuses to use male pronouns for God. when she does use ( Read more... )

this is a reply to a kind person who commented on my last post. unfortunately, the person did not give their name, so I don't know who it is. I would like to address some of the points this person brought up in the comment ( Read more... )