Chapter 5 take one | Main | Interlude — Well kiddies, because I know you’re all dying to find out what happens next, I’ve decided to venture back in to be belly of the beast and power the rest of my way through chapter 5. I think I’m going to mix things up a bit since […]
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Guilt By Association: Let’s build a strawman
Chapter Four | Main | Chapter Five and a half I think I’ve figured out why this book is bugging me so much. I spent the better part of the ‘90s—the decade when this was written—on the front lines of the pro-life movement. I know what that the movement was like in that time period because […]
Guilt By Association: Our Merry Band of Protesters demonstrates that they’re The World’s Most Naive Activists
Chapter Three | Main | Chapter Five — Welp, I made the mistake of trying to knock out a few days worth of posts in one day, and after taking a break to watch Agents of Shield (if you’re not watching it yet, seriously do, it’s getting really good), I decided to power on to chapter […]
Guilt By Association: Volvo-driving Doctor Rhonda’s backstory
Chapter Two | Main | Chapter Four — Well kiddies, today we get to meet the Volvo-driving Dr. Rhonda Marsano, abortionist at the wordily named Whatcom Women’s Center For Choice. I can’t wait! Hmm, this doesn’t bode well for our Volvo-driving doctor, Farris is humanizing her. I mean, it could be possible that he suddenly learned […]
Guilt By Association: Meeting the Merry Band of Protesters
Chapter One | Main | Chapter Three Before I delve into the next chapter, I wanted to go into something I left out of my review of chapter one. One of the most frustrating things about Michael Farris’ writing is his propensity to write scenes where we, the readers, are supposed to empathize with his characters, […]
Introducing the new series: Ryn Reads “Guilt By Association”
Main | Chapter Two Those of you who follow me on Twitter may recall the time that I livetweeted my reading of Michael Farris’ debut novel, Anonymous Tip. I’ve wanted to do something like that again, but I decided to mix things up this time and blog my way through the sequel to Anonymous Tip, with […]
When HSLDA went to the Kremlin
On September 10th and 11th of 2014, leaders of various right wing family organizations from around the world gathered at the Kremlin for what was to have been the “World Congress of Families VIII – the Moscow Congress.” The conference was a “pro-family” event that blended a mix of quiverfull, homeschooling, anti-abortion, and anti-LGBTQ organizations […]
We’re Here, We’re Queer (and patriarchy had nothing to do with it)
I’m not sure if two examples counts as a trend, but over the last few weeks both HSLDA founder and Patrick Henry College chancellor Michael Farris and well-known homeschool mommy blogger Karen “that mom” Campbell have both suggested that the blame, as it were, for LGBT homeschoolers lies at the feet of patriarchy. Under this […]
Are Women Safe at Patrick Henry College?
I’ve been following stories about how college and universities handle sexual harassment and assault allegations ever since I researched the heck out of Title IX in undergrad (the story behind that isn’t mine to tell, other than to say that for all its issues, Covenant seems to be one of the few Christian colleges even remotely […]
Good News! I finally found something a Michael Farris associate is willing to call abuse.
I feel like I’m beating a dead horse on this, but as I keep writing about, I’m having a hard time finding anyone associated with Michael Farris who is willing to actually call anything child abuse. Well, good news boys and girls. Remember that I mentioned the other day about how Michael Farris was at […]