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...scholars sought to give voice to the Jesus they detected suppressed beneath the dogma. They did not, however, all detect the same Jesus. Harvard's Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza, for example, has located a feminist paragon who saw God as Sophia (Wisdom) and himself as her spokesperson; Fiorenza contends the later church cloaked Jesus in the Christological garb as the Son of God. Crossan, relying heavily on the apocryphal Gospels of Thomas and Peter and the secret Gospel of Mark, has posited a "Mediterranean Jewish peasant...
...mess. The crowning blow to a brooding teenager is to give her a last name which illicits cringes and snickers from everyone from teachers to pizza deliverers. I have always had starry-eyed visions of marrying a man with an aesthetically-pleasing last name, even as the feminist in me screams that I am falling into the trap of patriarchy by wanting to give...
...feminist in me has come to believe that even something as seemingly simple as taking a new name along at marriage can be at best politically charged and at worst worthy of condemnation. No doubt because of my own personal experience, I have always liked the feminist emphasis on the importance of picking fair and accurate names for objects, groups, and people. I count myself among the legions of women often responsible for propelling the use--some say overuse--of politically correct speech. These days, I go about passionately correcting any sort of gender bias I hear in the language...
This insistence that "bad" speech is a direct cause of "bad" behavior was not new; 19th-century social purists and some leading conservative feminists fought to suppress "vicious" literature, as well as information about contraception. But a century later, the revival of a feminist anti-porn movement coincided with the election of Ronald Reagan and the rise of conservative Republicanism buoyed by an intolerant religious right. Left-wing protests of pornography and "hate" speech, in general, helped legitimate growing right-wing censorship campaigns. Their targets differed--activists on the right focused on sex and AIDS education, the study of evolution...
Speech was blamed for behavior and deemed protected by the First Amendment only so long as it was disassociated from whatever was considered really bad behavior--sexism to feminists on the left and sexual promiscuity to traditionalists on the right. (It's worth noting that the more extreme feminist protests of sexual misconduct, which helped shape the date-rape debate, made sexual promiscuity seem a kind of sexism, or false consciousness.) Liberal faith in the inherent value of saying something--anything--was abandoned. The act of speaking was considered only as valuable as the content of the speech...