The Stroppy Rabbit

"I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it." ~ Abraham Lincoln

Tuesday, October 08, 2013

Women's history 101

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People often ask, why are there so few famous women writers, artists, scientists, and intellectuals? They seem to be forgetting that, in p...
Monday, September 23, 2013

William Adam and Rammohun Roy

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William Adam was born in 1796 in Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland, and began his ministry as a Baptist missionary in India. Whilst in India, he...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013

Fat is a social issue

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There was an excellent article in The Guardian yesterday on obesity by Rae Earl . » Obesity epidemic: as a lifelong comfort eater, I unde...
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Thursday, February 14, 2013

An interesting conversation

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I had an interesting conversation the other day. I got chatting to a woman in a shop, and the conversation ranged over a number of topics, u...
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Adjectives, not nouns

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The trans* community are not the only ones to point out that "transsexual" is not a noun, it's an adjective. There are many o...
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Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Structural inequality of an invisible minority

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I am part of a persecuted minority. OK, we are not very persecuted (people don't refuse us mortgages, or call for us to be executed, an...
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Wednesday, December 12, 2012

We are rising!

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No-one outside Paganism seems to have noticed that the number of out and proud Pagans has doubled since the last census. Census 2011 Ani...
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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

The complexity of marriage law - update

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Legal (permitted by law and recognised by the state) : Opposite-sex church weddings (couple legally married and registered) Same-sex civi...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Gerald Gardner and homophobia

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Was Gerald Gardner homophobic? — Very probably, yes. (See Lois Bourne's memoirs.) Does this matter for practitioners of modern Wicca...
Friday, November 09, 2012

Liberal Christianity made me a better Wiccan

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I am not a Christian, but I highly value the liberal Christian strand in Unitarianism, as its alternative interpretations of the new testame...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Tackling homophobic bullying

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I have just written to my old school to ask them how they are tackling homophobic bullying. To: info@bitterneparkschool.org.uk Dear Ms T...
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Thursday, October 04, 2012

Charitable giving

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I think we need to move away from a human-centric view of the world towards a deep ecology view, that is what has got our species into so mu...
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I love cats, people, the Earth, the Moon and stars, and the simple pleasure of being alive. Everywhere is sacred, everything is part of the dance.
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