If you google “Gloria Steinem transphobia,” this is the first result: http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2012/09/gloria-steinem-transphobe.html. Whipping Girl by Julia Serano talked a fair bit about Steinem’s “Change the Foot” article. Gloria Steinem wrote these things years ago, but if she’s really changed her tune, she needs to denounce them.

I’m glad it’s being talked about that one’s career is not carte blanche, freedom of speech is not freedom from criticism, and RAPE THREATS AREN’T OKAY, STUPIDASS. But I wish people, including people I respect, didn’t keep turning the convo into whether rape jokes can ever be funny or subversive. That’s worthy of a convo [...]

Terrific post, Karina! I love the idea of a non-religious faith in line with feminism.