Pointing and Performing – Rhetorics of the Bible in church
In previous posts I’ve thought about the ways in which Farah Mendlsohn’s work on fantasy fiction might be useful for …
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Stiffen the Sinews and Stir the Blood: Shakespeare and Rhetoric in the Church Times
About a month ago I had a bit of luck, winning a short subscription to the Church Times in a …
“But I’m A Man!”: Arguments, Gender and Privilege
The other day I was told, not for the first time, that some man must have hurt me badly to …
Disability, Making Exceptions and Taking Exceptions
This piece, as so often with posts on Quite Irregular, starts with irritation over a particular use of language, a …
Bad Faith and a Devil’s Advocate: More on Internet Debates
In a previous piece, Someone Is Wrong On The Internet, I wrote about the way my weariness with the technical …
Someone Is Wrong On The Internet: Integrity, Debate and Below The Line
“The more logical or rhetorical terms someone uses on the Internet, the less you should listen to them.” I can’t …
Why So Creepy? – Male Feminists and Shoddy Arguments
The other day a friend sent me a link to a male feminist writing in The Guardian, “in case you …
Rape Threats: It’s A Free Speech Issue
Content note: this piece refers to misogynistic threats of violence Recently the media has been full of stories about women …
Career Boys: More on Dorothy L. Sayers and Feminism
Continuing from my previous posts on Dorothy L. Sayers’ feminism, I want to keep tracing the conceit in “The Human-Not-Quite-Human” …
Are Men Human? – More On Dorothy L Sayers’ Feminism
In Dorothy L. Sayer’s article “The Human-Not-Quite-Human”, part of her argument involves asking men to imagine what life would be …
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