Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollitt
Katha Pollittis an American feminist poet, essayist and critic. She is the author of four essay collections and two books of poetry. Her writing focuses on political and social issues, including abortion rights, racism, welfare reform, feminism, and poverty...
sex character buddhism
Whether you look at Judaism, Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, or Buddhism, wherever a distinction of sex is made, it is to the advantage of men. If you think of religions as if they were novels, the authors are men, and so are the major characters ...
moon men blood
While woman sheds the Blood of Life each moon at menstruation, man can only shed the blood of death through warfare and killing.
running people trying
If you run into trouble doing what's expected, people sympathize with you, while if you try something else and flop everyone says, You see?
past years two
Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.
self-confidence healthy body
If a woman says, I am getting these breast implants to gain self confidence, then I have to ask, What kind of a society do we live in where a woman's self-confidence depends on having a dangerous, expensive and painful operation on a perfectly healthy body?
ideas feminism important
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other.
epidemics feminist trying
We live, I am trying to say, in an epidemic of male violence against women.
teacher exercise thinking
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking.
baby holiday wish
When your claim to be victims of secularism rests on Wal-Mart greeters wishing shoppers Happy Holidays, you are clearly a bunch of great big babies.
america good-things
Old, in America, is not a good thing to be.
baby motherhood thinking
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.
thinking people process
... on the whole 'blasphemy' has been a force for good in human history. It is part of the process by which millions of people have come to reject theocracy and think for themselves.
running misogyny deeper
Misogyny runs deeper than religion.
lying thinking deception
We tend to tell strangers what we think will make us sound good. I myself, to my utter amazement, informed a telephone pollster that I exercised regularly, a bare-faced lie.