Practical Wisdom for Everyday Life
Greta Christina of the Freethought Blogs network has authored a response to some alleged criticisms of atheist/skeptic conference policies. She notes that persons ought not seriously consider criticisms “steeped in the contemptuous trivialization and dismissal of the very real problem of sexual and other harassment at conferences.” One might wonder what evidence supports this “very […]
President Barack Obama recently declared April 9 as “Equal Pay Day,” calling for Americans to “acknowledge the injustice of wage inequality” between men and women which, according to the proclamation, is a 23% pay disparity between men and women in the workforce. The proclamation reads as follows: Over the past 4 years, the American people […]
Last week, I wrote about American Atheists’ failure to enforce their conference policy pertaining to photographs and cell phones being used during their 2013 annual conference despite the fact that their conference policy explicitly states that conference attendees — during conference sessions — must turn off cell phones and electronic devices. Another violation of American […]
Adam Lee, blogger at Daylight Atheism on the Patheos network, reveals some strange attitudes about religious women and male sexuality in a recent piece he authored for the Skepchick network as part of the ‘speaking out against hate directed at women’ series which perpetuates a false and damaging narrative – that the secular community is […]
A graduate student at the university I attend — Marywood University in Scranton, Pennsylvania — is lobbying for a woman’s center to be included on campus. This prospective women’s center is proposed as a place where women are provided resources and information pertaining to sexual assault including “information, seminars, and assistance” according to an article […]
