Sep
01
2009
In high school, it was pretty much known that if you were a Christian at our church you were pro-life. Pro-life in a decently conservative way… thinking that even in a circumstance of rape, one must at least consider having the child. I remember being somewhat uncomfortable with the pro-life movement (perhaps this was my [...]
Tags: Acceptance, Christianity, pro-life, rally
Jul
30
2009
With Comicon, comes gamers, and with gamers comes the brilliant marketing minds at places like Electronic Arts (EA). By brilliant, I mean idiotic and sexist marketing people who don’t seem to see the issue with telling Comicon attendees to ‘Commit an act of lust’ with a ‘booth babe’. This article on femimisting.com presents exactly why [...]
Tags: Bad Marketing, Bad Promotion, Commit Acts of Lust, Dante's Inferno, EA, Offensive Marketing, Sexism, Sexist
Jun
11
2009
So, I found my old NIV Bible (that cost around $100, by the way… ), and in it, I found some old pieces of paper that I had written various notes on. One is a note that we were told to write in a Bible Study. It was a ‘Commitment note’ that you were to [...]
Tags: Christianity, Commitment, Husband, Letter, Old Notes, wife
Jun
09
2009
I’m a wife, not a mother. I may never be a mother, by choice. If I read the Bible, and believe it, I’m nothing more than a maid, and child birthing vessel. So. Awesome. It even says it in a way that should feel like a promotion… ‘leader of the home.’ But, then I look [...]
Tags: bible, wife, women