In a crisp three-and-a-half pages, Rifaat lays out a trifecta of sex, death, and religion, a bulldozer that crushes denial and defensiveness to get at the pulsating heart of misogyny in the Middle East. [...]
Check out this both thorough and good post at The Wild Hunt by Jason Pitzi-Waters, who explores the recent crackdown on American nuns by the Vatican. Pitzi-Waters quotes from a book co-written by by then-Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict XVI, who says:
Mary Eberstadt at Wall Street Journal says there isn’t one, and that the “sexual revolution” wasn’t good for women. I put “sexual revolution” in quotes because I’m not convinced I know what the author is talking about, and I’m not convinced she knows, either. It’s like saying “free love.” What precisely does [...]
