• Skepticism and Feminism – A Very Brief Parable

     

    Awhile back I tried to draw this up as a cartoon, but I’m a horrible cartoonist and always have been. So, stuff it, here is the idea in the form of cheap and easy words. You’ll have to do all the heavy lifting of visualization on your own.

    Imagine, if you will, an attractive young man talking to a bright young woman in front of an ordinary tent.  The tent is labeled “SKEPTICISM” and promises all kinds of mind-expanding experiences for those who enter.

    He says to her, “It’s really nice inside, and covers so much ground.”

    She answers, “Yes, it certainly seems nice, but would you mind moving it just a few yards to the left?”

    Panning out, you can see that both characters have been standing in front of the cavernous entrance of a much larger tent, labeled “FEMINISM,” which would completely subsume the smaller tent if only it could moved a bit further to the left.

    Category: FeminismSecularism

    Article by: Damion Reinhardt

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