feminine – Gus diZerega

Strange Bedfellows: The Christian Right, Radical Islam, and the Hindu Right

Posted on June 1, 2020June 1, 2020 by Gus

Radical Islam easily finds common ground with the religious right on women’s issues. This point ultimately led Dinesh D’Souza to blame American cultural freedoms for the Islamic radicals’ legitimate dislike of us! D’Souza is an important conservative writer, biographer of … Read more

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Science and the Feminine

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

In the seventeenth century, Henry Oldenburg, secretary of the new English Royal Society, wrote the society sought “to raise a Masculine Philosophy . . . whereby the Mind of man may be ennobled by the knowledge of solid truths.” [1]… Read more

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Masculine Boundaries: a bar fight

Posted on May 29, 2020May 29, 2020 by Gus

The masculine emphasis on boundaries helps clarify classically male behavior many women say they find inexplicable and many men have difficulty explaining. To take an example from my own life, during the 60s I was active in organizing protests against … Read more

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Looking Deeply: NeoPagans, Domination, and the ‘Woke’

Posted on February 24, 2020April 7, 2020 by Gus

Our community is divided over issues of sex and gender, often to the point of truly poisonous communications directed towards those with other points of view. In a way this division seems strange. Sex is a biological category. Gender is … Read more

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Deep Ecology and Eco-Feminism

Posted on May 9, 2013May 9, 2020 by Gus

Deep ecologists and ecofeminists share far more in common than where they differ. However, scholars within both perspectives have tended to exaggerate inevitable differences in terminology and traditions of analysis into supposedly significant differences in kind. Some ecofeminists criticize deep … Read more

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Imposing Masculine Monotheism

Posted on May 8, 2013May 8, 2020 by Gus

Transcendental masculine monotheism did not come easily to the people whose descendents now practice exclusively monotheistic faiths. Describing the Divine in feminine terms has occurred in virtually every culture on every continent and in every civilization. Everywhere in the world … Read more

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