women

The Hebrew term for woman is ishshah which literally means female man. It can also be rendered wife. The Greek word gyne is likewise either rendered as woman and wife. Since God is neither male nor female as a spirit is genderless, sexless, and he created both man and woman in his image or...

My wife Bonnie and I were talking about religion in general, and she brought up the point that it isn't only in the Abrahamic religions that put women in second place. The same is true for Hinduism, Confucianism, probably Taoism and posibly Buddhism. Does anyone have any ideas on this?

http://www.doublex.com/section/life/why-do-more-women-men-still-believe-god I find this a little interesting and I like that there is at least some real research to back it up. It certainly, to me, suggests that men use religion as a tool to control the world around them and assert their...

This is split off from another thread, that was split off from another thread. The question is what single thing helped the rights of women more than other things? Quotes from the thread are below. The nominations so far are 1. The Pill 2. The right to vote. Me I would add 3. The right to...

Ok so first off I'm an atheist. So this morning I hear that the pope has issued some kind of instruction that women priests and the bishops that ordained them are to be excommunicated. "Misogynistic bastage" Is my first reaction. But then I think "hang on, all their rules are based in fairy...

One of the dumbest Op-Eds I've ever read For example: Women are not merely different, but inferior? Of course it's a free country and the Washington Post can give its pages over to whoever it sees fit, but I wonder if it would have published this if the author had been a man? Or if some...

70% of Saudi women do not report breast cancer until late stages due to the social stigma, and their fear of being referred to male doctors. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21455455/ To say that this pisses me off beyond words is an understatement. What the hell is the matter with people dying...

I have to rant about some obscure social custom here in Japan that has long outlived it's usefulness. It's called the Bell Mark, and what it is a system in which food companies put a little mark on their package labels, which indicates a bell and a number of points, often one or 1.5, which can...

I just found this interesting article, about the representation ( and discrimination ) of women in the world academic environment. What is written, is quite surprising ( at least for me ): Some trends are surprising: In Scandinavian countries, where women have made deep inroads in politics...

Question for everyone: I wonder if women might be more susceptible to woo than men? I ask this because in my by no means definitive or universal experience, women do seem to have higher instances of belief in woo than men. This seems particularly evident in the areas of religious nuttery...

why do women talk so much? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1957827,00.html but hang, on, do women talk more than men? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1957827,00.html discuss :)

Source: Appalachian State University Released: Mon 05-Mar-2007, 16:20 ET http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/527870/ I think women do this to normalize body image issues. Like thinking that its ok to hate your body if everyone else hates theirs too, but its still wrong. I hate hearing...

http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=043C2A4B43E04178CC4D160094980B01 This was somewhat obvious to me. The way eating disorders are portrayed is skewed, its always some woman who is recovered (but never fat), saying how she went to the hospital for a few months and...

http://townhall.com/columnists/MichaelMedved/2007/02/21/where_tim_hardaway_was_right Conservative cultural critic Michael Medved on Tim Hardaway... Tim Hardaway (and most of his former NBA teammates) wouldn’t welcome openly gay players into the locker room any more than they’d welcome...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=419040&in_page_id=1879

Link I guess she wasn't a true believer then. :rolleyes:

Of course, they suspected that Palestinian insurgents had hidden themselves in the crowd, so I imagine they think they were justified. What I wonder about is how a 12 year old girl looks like a bearded insurgent through a rifle scope? Palestinian girl, 12, killed by Israeli sniper fire...

This article is an example of another study done with the results in mind before even beginning.

I thought i'd stoke some feminist fires with this one......:) http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/health/HealthRepublish_1376865.htm But any discourse in the public arena is usually neutered by some PC-laden nonsense, like the explanation given below...

From the AP: Woman Crashes When Teaching Dog to Drive - - - - - - - - - - - - August 28,2006 | BEIJING -- A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday. No injuries...

I'm wondering if there are objectively judged competitions where women would consistently beat men. For example, if I run a sprint, men will consistently beat women. That doesn't mean that every man will beat every woman in every race, just that for the most part, men will run faster than...

Angela Merkel in Germany. Michelle Bachele in Chile. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Liberia. And in the U.S.? Hillary or Condi in '08?

So in little breaks between my workout, I'm watching this documentary on TV about parole. A guy goes before a parole board, and they talk about how he has 8 kids by 6 different women. He hasn't paid child support, because even when out of prison, he had trouble holding down a job. If I...

Source Wasn't sure wether to post it in the politics or the religion subforum, so I'm posting it in both.

Source Wasn't sure wether to post it in the politics or the religion subforum, so I'm posting it in both.

http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=48&story_id=24721 I'm working up a couple pints to send and will just need an address. The rest of us can't be stingy in this time of need.

Have you ever heard this question asked before? I thought of this while reading the marriage section of the paper and pondering what sort of guy would marry some woman 7 years older than him? And I also wondered why it is so often that men are attracted to, and marry some woman about 3 years...

. . . what would be different? I've been thinking about this recently and it occurred to me that early the entire Bible would have been completely different had it been written by women. I'd like to know what everyone thinks might have changed if this were so. I welcome any thoughts on the...

At least, that seems to be the opinion of some fundamentalist Muslims: Then later on it says: So it seems this targeting of womens education is widespread. Barefoot and pregnant, that's how they need to be kept.

This can only lead me to conclude that Saudi Arabia will not be on Danica Patrick's speaking tour this year... ;)