How do you solve a problem like That Church from Kansas? Kill them with kindness, just like your mother told you. more ›

Women: who needs 'em? You know, besides everyone, in order to be alive and stuff. Today is International Women's Day. Originally International Working Women's Day, the day has roots in socialism is designed to recognize the rights and achievements of women around the world. In some countries, women get the day off work, or even get special gifts. In the United States, we just get to work more. But that's cool, at least we have the right to vote—unlike women in 65% of UN member nations. more ›

Love her or hate her, everyone knows Barbie. She's an iconic American standard for all things female and boy oh boy does she get railed against. First it's her body then it's her tumultuous relationship with Ken (including last year’s ill-planned Ken tramp stamp tattoo), then it's her materialism and phew, when Barbie said "math is hard," it was the sound bite heard 'round the world. The girl can do nothing right. more ›

It took filmmaker Jennifer Fox four years, seventeen countries, and 1,600 hours of footage (which she whittled down to 6 hours of film) to fully cover the cross-cultural confusion of modern womanhood. The project didn't start out that high-minded; Jennifer was dating two men and not entirely happy with either, which led to an identity crisis that inspired her travels exploring what it means to be a woman today. The result is her sweeping, compelling tour de force Flying: Confessions of a Free Woman. Along her journey, there’s a lot of girl-talk over food and drinks, and in that way, Flying is a slow-moving and much smarter version of Sex and the City, where Carrie Bradshaw eschews the contrivance of writing a newspaper column and just addresses the camera directly. But at the same time, it’s a state of the union on the current female experience, covering everything from physical and sexual abuse, orgasm, sex trafficking, honor killing, female genital mutilation, in vitro fertilization, abortion, and marriage. more ›

Now that whoredom is all over the news, won't somebody think of the children? more ›

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A website entitled "People Against Fundamentalism" is setting up a direct action against the Seattle megachurch Mars Hill for December 3rd at 11am outside their Ballard campus to protest the preachings of Mars Hill pastor Mark Driscoll. There is a certain...passion to the website's descriptions of Mark and his attitudes towards women, as you can see here: more ›

Last week when Salon came to town to check in on the Ballard megachurch Mars Hill there was a lot of commenting here and elsewhere, both condemning the church and inviting non-believers to attend a service. The proprietress at the local Electrolicious blog took them up on it and went to Mars Hill this Sunday, and today Seattlest sits down with the resulting post for a chat. more ›