What is it to be a Girl?

I was watching a movie the other night where a character remarked: “I enjoy being a girl.” Not long ago, I wouldn’t have given that line a second thought. But then I realized that there was something that was different about her experiences as a girl: she had autonomy to decide what that meant to […]

B.F. (Before Feminism)

(Sexism) was a fact of life I simply had to accept. Men felt threatened and mistrustful of women who had good ideas, and one had to employ immense tact when dealing with directors and producers. – Olivia de Haviland, 100 year old actress “What really burns me up,” Gertrude Legendre wrote in October 1941, “is […]

Your Biblical Belief is 42 years old …

In “What is the Woman’s Desire?” By Susan Foh, the question about the meaning of the word “desire” is answered: “What Young considers an obviously impossible meaning for “desire,” the meaning which “desire” has in the same syntactical setting only 15 verses away, is not impossible. The woman has the same sort of desire for […]

Sexualized

Anyone who spends more than a little bit of time in a modern church has probably sat through a modesty sermon, one in which where women are warned about dressing just so as to not to cause men to lust after them, how it’s a heart issue and not wanting to cause your weaker brother […]