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Abortion and the US Republican Party

Heather Hastie — Fri, 19 Jul 2019 04:33:34 +0000

Before I start, I should note I am unapologetically pro-choice. I’ve been pro-choice for as long as I can remember. I recall thinking women should be able to have an abortion, if they want one, when I was just eight year old (1972-73). (New Zealand’s Contraception, Sterilisation, and Abortion Bill was making its way through […]

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Kavanaugh: More Women Accusers

Heather Hastie — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 03:58:42 +0000

The final section of my last post, ‘Kavanaugh Conformation and Ford Accusation‘, was “There’s Never Just One Victim”. (Of course, there were two in that post – Christine Blasey Ford and Debbie Ramirez.) It included a tweet from lawyer Michael Avenatti referring to bombshell revelations to come. I updated that post with a transcription of […]

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Kavanaugh Confirmation and Ford Accusation

Heather Hastie — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 02:48:46 +0000

For days I’ve been trying to write a post about Professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegation that Judge Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted her when the two were teens. And for days I’ve been deleting everything I wrote and starting again. I want to be fair. I want to get it right. The problem is we can’t […]

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More Mass Murder of Children in the US (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 03:10:16 +0000

Seventeen children are dead in Florida and Trump tweets that it’s the FBI’s fault because they were too busy trying to find evidence he was colluding with Russia during the election campaign. WTF is wrong with this man? He went to Florida and met with the families of two of the victims for 35 minutes. […]

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The Rob Porter Scandal

Heather Hastie — Sun, 11 Feb 2018 06:20:54 +0000

I begin writing this after watching Anderson Cooper’s interview on CNN with former White House staffer Rob Porter’s second wife, Jennifer Willoughby on 9 February (NZ time). Anyone who saw it who has been in an abusive relationship of any kind will recognize the feelings she expressed. For that reason, I place a great deal […]

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Treating Women as Equals – Why is it So Difficult? (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 02:33:10 +0000

Once again, I can’t remember what I was going to write about for today’s tweets post. That’s because it all went out the window, or rather out of my mind, when I saw something else. As is my usual morning habit before I get out of bed, I was reading the Why Evolution is True […]

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Homily: The Superbowl and the Stock Market (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Tue, 06 Feb 2018 01:05:38 +0000

Most of the tweets in this post are from yesterday or the day before. So at this stage I just need to get this post out before they get any older. I’ve been planning all sorts of profound homilies, but my writing isn’t up to executing them at the moment. Thus all you’re getting are […]

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Homily: Men Made Mad by Religion (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 23:43:07 +0000

Once again, most of today’s tweets are from yesterday. I put them in the post, then fell asleep watching the tennis (NZ Open). I’m not sure where I saw the joke recently, but it certainly applies to me right now. I don’t know what day it is, and I wake up to eat and wash. […]

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Homily: An Ill-Informed Feminist Attacks Jerry Coyne (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True‘ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real feminist‘. It’s about, “… Anna Muzychuk, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who holds the women’s […]

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Heather’s Homily – Interrupting Women (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Mon, 27 Nov 2017 01:24:13 +0000

Today’s homily was inspired by a tweet sent to me by Ann German. (See Human Rights Tweets below.) It led me to an article in Aeon called ‘How men continue to interrupt even the most powerful women‘. The authors did a statistical analysis of how often the female justices on the US Supreme Court were […]

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