Broadsheet presents Phyllis Trible, a feminist theologian profiled this weekend in the Winston-Salem Journal.

Please tell me this woman is not named after the Star Trek creatures.

but it will still bark. Trying to find feminist values in the bible is like trying to find intelligence in the Bush Whitehouse (to use an analog that will go over well here) - it ain't gonna happen. The real question is why? Why do some people feel compelled to try to impose their modern feelings and values on to fucked up garbage spewed thousands of years ago. Maybe while you're at it, you can find some ancient texts for guidance on health, science and engineering - oh wait a minute - that would be stupid, right?

or wanting to talk (sexual harrassment) see (porn) read about it etc. etc.

any religion that promotes celibacy, or as little sex as possible to ensure reproduction, for men as the ideal and most moral way of life certainly has feminist potential.

We don't have to admit any such thing, as religions that demand celibacy are invariably woman-hating. They ask for men to be celibate because women are too disgusting and dirty to sully themselves with, and they ask for women to be celibate because the reason women are disgusting and dirty is that they have sex. The idea that it's the male sexuality that's disgusting and dirty comes as an afterthought. A society can survive indefinitely after demonizing female sexuality, but if you make men so uncomfortable with sex they can't get it up, your society dies out. CF the Shakers. Nice furniture, but where are they now?

Besides, women like sex. Feminism is about *improving* women's choices, not restricting them.

I have no idea where so many posters to Broadsheet's letters section got the idea that the majority of the feminist movement is anti-sex, but why would an anti-sex movement be so strongly behind birth control and abortion rights? No one needs either of those if they are never having sex. Feminists just want women to have sex because *they* want it, not because men want them to. And in case you guys are completely unaware of history, modern feminism launched right around the same time as the sexual revolution and had a good number of the same players in it.

It's a quirk of human neurology and doesn't necessarily mean anything. Unfortunately spell checkers don't catch it.

"Leech" is a bloodsucking parasite.

"Leach" is what I think you meant:

To remove soluble or other constituents from by the action of a percolating liquid.

To empty; drain: “a world leached of pleasure, voided of meaning” (Marilynne Robinson).

I mean, you write for a living, do you not?

any religion that promotes celibacy, or as little sex as possible to ensure reproduction, for men as the ideal and most moral way of life certainly has feminist potential.

2 posts today and that's it? I'm sure there's more to write about. Octavia Butler died this weekend, how about an obituary or mention of her work? Doesn't need to be here in Broadsheet, though she was an influential female author, do a story about her in the main Salon section.