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Latest blog posts from Fem Speak

The not-so-bitter truth
“You’re just bitter.”  This is a phrase commonly used to silence women.  Another variation says, “You are so unforgiving.” The bitterness accusation is used to bully a woman and tell her how she “should” feel instead of asking her how she does feel.  Someone who uses this...
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Published 8 months ago

Misogyny in America
A culture of violence against women If you think females have achieved equality in the United States, just scan the headlines sometime.  Misogyny is alive and well.  Consider the marine who raped his female comrade, then killed her and buried her in his back yard to avoid a paternity...
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Published 8 months ago

ACOG says homebirth is fashionable trend
Pregnant women read the writing on the wall A few years ago I noticed a sign on the wall at a local women’s clinic. It stated “Our doctors will no longer perform VBAC.” The sign made me laugh. VBAC stands for vaginal birth after cesarean. Since the doctors in that practice were males, it...
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Published 9 months ago

An open letter to Christian pastors
Pastors, have you ever preached a sermon against domestic violence?  Odds are, you haven’t.  I’ve listened to approximately 4,000 sermons and have yet to hear a pastor condemn domestic violence from the pulpit. Southern preachers prefer to pontificate on matters like abortion and...
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Published 9 months ago

Why Women Should Support Hillary, Not Obama
If you want proof that Hillary is the smarter, more capable candidate, just look at how Obama's campaign is trying to dodge and put off upcoming debates with Hillary. The reason? The Obama team knows that Hillary does better in debates. She is better at discussing issues on the spot, has deeper...
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Published 10 months ago

Are we there yet?
All the way from north Georgia to Boston, my four-year-old Christianna punctuated the hours with, “Are we there yet?”“No, baby,” we’d answer, “we’re not there yet.” Then we’d pull out the map to offer the children another geography lesson. As we sailed up I-81, I began to...
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Published a year ago

No Baptist left behind
A year ago, the Southern Baptist Convention issued a resolution urging churches and parents “to investigate their public schools to determine, among other things, whether they are endangering children in their care by collaboration with homosexual advocates.” The resolution stopped short of...
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Published a year ago

Fans still worship Woman-killer
It seems fitting that she was known simply as “Woman.” She was smart, she was funny, she was successful, and she was beautiful. Yet Nancy Benoit died simply because she was a woman. That’s not shocking, really. It happens to approximately 1,200 women per year. Many times children, like...
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Published a year ago

Parenting tips for dummies
You don’t own them. Children are not possessions that belong to you. Children are a blessing, but it’s more important that we bless them. They are not here to entertain or titillate adults, to make us look good, to justify our existence or to give adults a whipping post for taking out anger....
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Published a year ago

The family-values candidate
In recent years, Democratic candidates have focused on “issues” while Republican candidates focused on “values.” Through forces like Jerry Falwell’s Moral Majority and The Christian Coalition, Republicans have used religion and guilt to coerce Christians into ignoring the issues...
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Published a year ago

Wage gap hurts men, too
In every ethnic group and every occupational category, American women still earn significantly less than their male equals. In fact, no progress has been made since the 1980s. This is not because women work less. In fact, the more hours women work, the larger the wage gap grows. According to the...
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Published a year ago

A few good men
It isn’t that America lacks good men. It’s that our current culture does not know how to recognize them. Over the past week I have received several emails from Chris Benoit fans angrily defending the wrestler turned murderer. They all say the same thing �" Yeah, he killed his wife and child,...
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Published a year ago