Roman Catholic Womenpriests Plan Ordination
Here’s a press release from the Womenpriests Movement: In Toronto on May 27, 2007, Marie Bouclin of Sudbury, Ontario will be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest by bishop Patricia Fresen of Germany....
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What is a real man?
The measure of a man is what he does with power. Plato The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself. Henry Ward Beecher A man is what he thinks about all day long....
View ArticleWomenpriests’ Ordination at West Hill United Church
On May 27, 2007, West Hill United Church played host to a Roman Catholic Womenpriests’ Ordination service, the first such ordination service to occur on land. Although I was acting as an unofficial...
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Whatever Happened to Feminism
My daughter has always enjoyed sports. Growing up, she’s gone through phases. There was a gymnastics phase which lasted for three or four years. When that phase ended, I breathed a sigh of relief...
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The Nipple Exposed
In our household, the division of labour is allocated so that, among other things, I do the laundry. This has given me considerable exposure to fashion trends in women’s undergarments – moreso in the...
View ArticleRighteous White Anger and FGM
Nothing stirs up controversy like debates about female anatomy, especially the bits to do with reproduction and sexuality. We saw this in Canada with last year’s induction of Dr. Henry Morgentaler to...
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Ninety Pounds Of Piss And Vinegar
When Lois Wilson submitted a request to transfer her church membership, board members of the receiving church asked the minister: “Who is Lois Wilson?” The minister, Rev. Doug Norris, answered:...
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The Nipple Revisited
Tomorrow, I will be posting an eChapbook, a long short story titled Security. Breasts figure prominently in my story, or – not to make too fine a point of it – nipples. This isn’t the first time I’ve...
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This Blog Doesn’t Allow Head Coverings
This blog does not provide services to women who wear certain head coverings. If you are a female Viking, your browser will no longer work properly and you will be redirected to more suitable web...
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Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom
My name is Dave and I am a Disneyholic… Hello, Dave. Why don’t you tell us a bit about yourself and your struggles with Disney addiction? Well, it all started innocently enough with Sunday evening TV...
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Don’t worry; it was only a ‘gang-rape’
Yesterday, I tweeted: “BBC reports a woman was ‘gang-raped’ in India. What, pray tell, do the quotation marks mean?” I was responding to a BBC headline concerning a Swedish tourist whose husband was...
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Story: Conspiracy Theory
Through an act of subterfuge, Mandy got Lloyd into emerge. She sat him down in a waiting room of scraped knees and moaning bandaged heads and said she had to go to the counter and request an old x-ray...
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Reading Mary Daly (and Audre Lorde)
My ongoing novel research—trying to get inside the head of a Catholic feminist liberationist grad student—has taken me to Mary Daly’s The Church and the Second Sex, first published in 1968, then...
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But What About Miss America’s Boobs?
People are shocked to discover that there are racists in the twitterverse. After Nina Davuluri won the Miss America 2014 pageant running on a platform (sounds like politics, no?) of “Celebrating...
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Two More From Bookthug
At this year’s Toronto Word On The Street, I picked up two chapbooks from Bookthug, one titled My Vagina, by André Alexis, and the other titled Deep Too, by Stan Dragland. My Vagina is, obviously,...
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Anthropologist from Mars Studies Crucified Woman
In 1995, Oliver Sacks published a book titled An Anthropologist On Mars. It’s a collection of “case studies” about people with neurological disorders. The virtue of Sacks’s writing is that it’s...
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Obscenity
Just as I was ruing the plight of the human mind at the hands of publicly instituted censors, I received this delightful piece of unsolicited advertising in my mailbox. “You’ll do anything to protect...
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The Magdalene Moment, by Joanna Manning
The Magdalene Moment: A Vision for a New Christianity , by Joanna Manning In 1975, feminist theologian Sheila Collins noted that it was only five years earlier that women “began to take their own...
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Whatever Happened To Feminism
My daughter has always enjoyed sports. Growing up, she’s gone through phases. There was a gymnastics phase which lasted for three or four years. When that phase ended, I breathed a sigh of relief...
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The Nipple Exposed
In our household, the division of labour is allocated so that, among other things, I do the laundry. This has given me considerable exposure to fashion trends in women’s undergarments—moreso in the...
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