Feminist Theology ~ Sep 14, 05:25 PM

My monday night class is feminist theology, the third and final theology requirement for my degree. I was excited about this class, and anxious to see what would be taught. I’m doing my homework and getting hot around the collar about a number of issues concerning women in theology. It occurs to me that I feel exactly the same way about feminist theology that I do about log cabin republicans. I commend the ability to work from the inside of an institution to bring about change, but I can’t see the honor in working so closely with people that not only don’t care about your concerns and issues, but often score points with small-minded people by taking away your civil liberties.
I respect that they don’t hold the same views, but in this world we are not judged for what we think to ourselves, but often by what the company we keep says.
If the company you keep are Christian zealots and republican homophobes, then I’m sorry but your whispers will be lost to their shouts.

Also I am not so concerned with the parts of the bible that marginalize, criminalize, and debase women. I get, even if a lot of christians don’t, that it was written by men in a dense uneducated patriarchy.
The reason the church is misogynistic has less to do with their word from a thousand years ago and more to do with their actions today.
If anyone thinks that if the church backed the use of birth control the Insurance companies could get away without covering it, you are insane.
We are viewed as broodmares and babysitters, and women who have no interest in these pursuits are labeled lesbians, bitches, and useless to them.
The reason gynecology wasn’t properly studied until the 1970s (excluding obstetrics)? The reason marriage hasn’t always been viewed as an equal partnership between two consenting adults? The reason women were last to the job force? All of these things stem from passages in the bible that were turned into social codes in this country.
I don’t know why I still argue about school prayer, the ten commandments in courthouses, and god forbid roe vs. wade — there has never been any true separation of church and state in this country, regardless of it’s deist roots.

okay that’s my stupid feminist rant for the day.

Menstruation, Menstruation, Menstruation.

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tipsy blogging and the bad ideas that proceed ~ May 11, 10:52 PM

So I realize I’ve been a bit blog happy this weekend, so I’ll probably keep the regular update a bit shorter than usual. But who knows, it’s not like I plan this shit out.

Neighbor Jenny brought a bottle of red over and we split that. We talked about everything like always. And now I’m sitting here, fantasizing about running the hall to her apartment, knocking, and just kissing her when she answers the door.
It’s silly. I can’t do anything. I live across the hall from her. It’s just another example of me wanting what is impossible. She might as well be fictional.

I find that I enjoy studying the math section of the GRE more than the english section. When I get an english question wrong, I feel stupid and irritated at the wording of the question; the uncertainty of words frustrating.
But with math, even though I’m bad at it, when I get something right I feel a sense of certainty. It’s nice. It’s different from everything else that I do in school and life.

Having trouble concentrating, watching a show on bisexual women in the UK. Two girls in a bath tub . . . need I say more?
This whole thing is raising issues that I’ve been really avoiding lately, for no other reason then I have no outlet for them. But I know that if you don’t feed a monster, it doesn’t starve, it breaks free and eats the neighbor.

So I’ve avoided mentioning politics on this site because that’s not what this is here for. I think my personal politics are less important than presenting a united front behind the democrats right now.
But below I’ve included an ad that Comcast has refused to put on for Shirley Golub. I hate Comcast: they offer a mediocre product at an exorbitant rate, have terrible customer service, and are verging on a media monopoly.
So I’m offering the video here, and please if you are interested, or live in San Francisco, check out Shirley Golub’s Site

“well you’d look bloody silly going about with a strapped on penis.”
true. so true.

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