The Christian Post recently published my short article “Pepe Le Pew stinks: The sexual violence of Looney Tunes in a #MeToo age.” The article attracted three comments, presumably from Christian conservatives (the primary readership of The Christian Post). Not surprisingly, the comments were all critical of my moral censure of Pepe Le Pew and his […]
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The Ethical Principle Behind #NotMyPresident
Over the last several weeks we’ve all encountered the hashtag #NotMyPresident along with the accompanying sentiment. The response has been predictable: Trump was elected by the electoral college, so he is president. And if you’re American, he’s your president, period. Yesterday conservative Christian radio host Michael Brown issued his own indictment of the #NotMyPresident crowd. In Brown’s […]
Blood Coming Out of Her Wherever: On Donald Trump’s misogynistic war
In his opening monologue on SNL this past Saturday, Dave Chappelle made a joke about staying at a Trump hotel: “I’m staying at the Trump Hotel right now. I don’t know if he’s going to make a good president, but he makes a swell hotel suite, Imma tell you that. Housekeeping comes in in the […]
Stephen Colbert, Paul Ryan, and their subtly sexist critiques of Donald Trump
Donald Trump is a misogynistic pig. That much we can agree on. (Warning: if we can’t agree on that much, we probably won’t agree on much more.) But the more sobering fact is that some of the most notable “critiques” of Trump are couched in a subtler form of sexism. And given that subtlety, they […]
Everyone’s Daughter: A Review of India’s Daughter
On the evening of December 16th, 2012, 23 year old Jyoti Singh, a young medical intern, went out with a male friend to celebrate the completion of her final exams. The two went out into Delhi and watched the film Life of Pi. On the way home they made the fateful mistake of boarding an […]
Why you should probably sit out the slut walk
I know what you’re thinking: “What on earth is Randal talking about today?” It all started back in January of this year when a police officer delivering a speech at York University on campus safety made the observation that “women should avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized.” That politically incorrect advice apparently […]
