Category: Feminism
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Christians warned against seeing Barbie: ‘It’s hardcore propaganda’
WHEN a friend jokingly asked me at the weekend whether I intended seeing Mattel and Warner Bros’ Barbie my reply was “I’d sooner rub acid in my eyes!” But now, having read an attack on the film by Christian reviewer Dr Ted Baehr, inset above, I’m having second throughts. Baehr, who runs faith-based Movieguide, told…
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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish media continues erasing images of women, but this feminist is fighting back
FOR more than a decade, Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, above, an Orthodox Jewish feminist, has been chronicling the gradual disappearance of women from magazines, advertisements and other media in Israel. In reporting on her activities, Religion News Service provided a recent example: The front page of ultra-Orthodox Shacharit newspaper, inset above. When it covered Israeli President…
Barry Duke, the Angry Atheist 