Notion that it’s culturally imperialist to promote women’s rights for all women had to begin somewhere.
Category: Latest News
Welcome to our archive of news stories relevant to the project of fighting fashionable nonsense. The stories are drawn from the electronic pages of the world’s media. On this page, you’ll find links to those stories that have been featured on Butterflies and Wheels during the current year. At the bottom of the page, you’ll find links to separate archives of stories from previous years.
We’re always pleased to hear about news stories that you think should be featured on Butterflies and Wheels. Just send an email here, if you want to point one out to us.
A note about links
Inevitably links go out of date. We suggest, therefore, that you make hard-copies of the stories that particularly interest you.
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Excerpt from Nick Cohen’s New Book
Why will students hear a leftish postmodern theorist defend the exploitation of women in traditional cultures?
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Kelly Trying to Water Down Gay Rights Laws
She is determined to include a loophole for her church in the Equality Act 2006.
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Joan Smith on Kelly’s Conflict of Interest
Bishops would rather see kids remain in institutions than hand them over to same-sex adoptive parents.
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Blair and Kelly Join to Appease Bishops
‘It is the equivalent of telling Rosa Parks to wait for the fully integrated bus coming behind.’
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Chancellor Refuses to Exempt Catholics
Church cannot be exempted from new laws banning discrimination against gay people, Falconer said.
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Muslim Cop Refuses to Shake Hands
MCB soothingly notes that in a real emergency the cop will do her job.
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Pagans Worship Zeus
Why just Zeus? Why not Athena? What about Artemis? What’s with the daddy thing?
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Turkish Newspapers Express Shock at Murder
‘No greater insult could have been made against Turkey and the Turkish identity.’
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Fury in Turkey
Thousands rallied in Istanbul. ‘We are all Armenians, we are all Hrant Dink,’ the crowd chanted.
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Hrant Dink Refused to be Silent
In a column this week, Dink said he had received many death threats, and that he was scared.
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Suspect in Hrant Dink Murder Arrested
Journalists and politicians in Turkey have expressed outrage at the killing.
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Busted for Allegedly Violating Public Order Act
That’s the one where if someone feels insulted, you done broke the law.
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The Sound Healers Association Get Together
To project a sonic Valentine to the Earth Mother. Aw, that’s sweet.
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Instructions for Sound Healing
Arrange chakras. Buy tuning fork. Arrange crystal bowls. Say ‘om’. Be one with all life.
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Wendy Doniger on Women and Religion
Most major religions have been run by men, who have often used them to control and suppress women.
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Letters on Giles Fraser on Gay Rights
If anti-gay rights Xians are the minority, why did four out of the five bishops vote against the rules?
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Deborah Tannen on Religious Control of Women
Men seek to manage male sexual drives by
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Babar Sattar on Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
Blasphemy laws undermine free speech and encourage religious bigotry and obscurantism.
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Letters on ‘Biologic Institute’
There is a difficulty, which is that no scientific experiment can have any bearing on their hypothesis.