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Will Religion Survive Feminism?

A post from DoubleX writer Amanda Marcotte:

A few years ago, this would have been hard for me to say but now it's easy: Thank the stars for Nicholas Kristof. He proved his pricelessness as a voice of real reason on the NY Times op-ed page yet again by tackling the nuclear question of the role that religion plays in human rights abuses around the world. Of course, since said human rights abuses involve oppression of women, they're often not seen as human rights abuses, but from American purity balls that imply that men own their daughters to female genital mutilation, women's rights are being oppressed, with religion and tradition as the excuses. Kristof doesn't pull his punches but directly describes this uncomfortable reality in which one culture after another hates on women while blaming God or gods for hating women ... (Read the rest of this article in DoubleX.)