tangle's blog

What color are you? And what color am I, for that matter? How much thought have you given the topic of race today?  Read More »

When it comes to the tactics of the anti-abortion proponents I'm nearly always appalled at what they deem to be appropriate forms of protest. So when I read this article in my local paper yesterday I was surprised to see some of the pro-lifers actually showing something resembling compassion.  Read More »

What separates humans from all other forms of life on earth? I propose that it is our proclivity to manipulate the environment to our own advantage that sets us apart from every other form of life on this planet.  Read More »

How much thought have you given to eugenics? How much do you even know about eugenics? Until this year I barely knew what eugenics was, much less had I given the concept much thought, but now that I’ve learned about eugenics it seems to be everywhere.

Eugenics was promoted in 20th Century America as a part of the Progressive Movement, so this seemed the perfect forum for discussion about eugenics. With this post I hope to pique the interest of fellow bloggers as to the pervasiveness of eugenics so that we might ponder and debate specific instances of eugenics that appear in the news.  Read More »

In the 1960s, in the place where I now call home, racial tensions had resulted in social upheaval. Mississippi, run by Southern White Anglo Saxon Protestants, had done a shoddy job reconstructing society following the failure of a system of racial slavery and the resulting Civil War. And when the Federal Government began to mandate the fair treatment of individuals regardless of the color of their skin, folks were diabolically stubborn and unwilling to accept change. Terror and violence inevitably ensued.

I sure am glad I wasn’t alive then. It wasn’t a safe place to be if you thought people could get along no matter the color of their skin.  Read More »

As I’ve previously blogged, I’ve ceased claiming to be a feminist. This post is meant to further elaborate what’s up with that.  Read More »

The most recent image I've seen of the only female presidential candidate struck me as decidedly masculine.

And it got me to thinking: Why are we unwilling to accept so much as an indication of femininity from a person in a position of power?  Read More »

As I’ve previously blogged, cultural expressions of gender tend to assign norms to the sexes. While I understand that gender has been an important social construct historically, I’ll remain hopeful that humanity can move beyond limiting one’s social identity based solely on the placement of genitalia.

So what does this have to do with rape?  Read More »