Absolutely beautifully stated. I too have always drawn a distinction between religion and faith or spirituality. I’m not religious but I can be sometimes spiritual (I have no defined beliefs really, if anything I’m an agnostic polytheist)

Thanks for writing this

The ultimate result of sex for women is not universally pleasure, it’s not universally motherhood. The ultimate result is whatever the individual woman experiences for herself.

“Generally, many mothers would agree me because sex in this way connected to something bigger than the act. I’m not only saying “for me”, I’m speaking collectively, “for most”. I would be surprised that this would seem offensive to you. Feminism speaks to the experiences of “most women”. ” One more thing, Feminism should speak [...]

“Living as a mom is a very marginalized existence because moms are scorned for discussing this empowerment (your comments are a case in point). I thought sex was a big deal, but the ultimate sexual connection between my husband and I was the event that made me a mother. Generally, many mothers would agree me [...]

“The reason you don’t know about the universal “ultimate” result of sex is because you haven’t experienced becoming a mother and experienced the alchemity and wonder of a new life stirring within. I would have made the very same comments as you make here prior to having had that experience. For me and my partner, [...]

But you see honeybee the reason Moore talked about it, the reason Maddow asked about it was because of the #mooreandme movement. We got very public people to talk about rape and believing women when they say they’ve been raped on National TV, all with a simple twitter tag, that’s something.

So now she’s a stalker? Way to promote victim blaming. The wording in the NPR article is terrible “allegedly essentially a stalker” that’s piling opinion on top of opinion. Not to mention every time he reports a “fact” he throws in doubt on the woman’s story. Of course it sounds fishy when you say things [...]

It started off fine but then the interviewer became more antagonistic as the interview went on, had he dropped the subject of provocation after asking if he was rolling to towards the police. I don’t think there would have been any outcry, but he didn’t even after McIntyre explained that he can’t actually use his [...]

It is a sad state of affairs when this outcome doesn’t shock me at all