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by Merrill Miller • 10 June 2014


Jessica Valenti, recipient of the 2014 Humanist Heroine Award
Jessica Valenti, recipient of the 2014 Humanist Heroine Award
On June 7, 2014, Jessica Valenti received the Humanist Heroine Award at the American Humanist Association’s annual conference. Through her writing and filmmaking, Valenti has championed women’s equality, advocated for human rights and exposed the toxic nature of evangelical Christianity’s culture of sexual “purity.” Her work exemplifies feminist and humanist values, and she has revitalized issues of gender equity for a new generation.
Valenti’s many accomplishments have made her more than deserving of the Humanist Heroine Award. However, some individuals might express uncertainty about the ability of the feminist and humanist movements to work together. Some humanists feel that, because humanism promotes the rights of all human beings, there is no need for a movement that focuses specifically on women’s issues. Constructive criticism of feminism from the humanist movement (and vice versa) is certainly necessary for strengthening both causes, but Valenti’s speech at the awards luncheon focused on the reasons why a movement specifically for women is essential and should be supported by humanists. Through her discussion of the recent killings in Isla Vista, California, Valenti highlighted the ways in which women in the United States are still viewed not as fully human but as objects of sexual conquest and status for straight men.
Elliot Rodger, who killed seven people and wounded thirteen more in Isla Vista, was motivated by an ugly concoction of misogyny and racism, in which he viewed women and people of color as animals instead of human beings. In his written manifesto, Rodger reduced women to mere objects of men’s sexual desires. From his perspective, they were on par with fancy cars, designer watches and tailored suits. Women, to Rodger, were signs of a man’s wealth, prestige and masculinity; they were not fully human. Rodger also expressed disdain for his Asian heritage and saw men of color as weak and of lesser worth. While mental illness likely played a role in Rodger’s rampage, less violent forms of his prejudices can be seen in popular culture through ads that equates women’s bodies with products for sale and stereotypes that reduce men of color to sidekicks and punchlines. His chilling manifesto reflects and then magnifies bigotry that already exists within our society.
In a culture that still rejects the full humanity of certain groups, such as women and people of color, movements that focus specifically on problems of sexism and racism are crucial. Feminism’s specific perspective on women’s equality is necessary because women are all too often denied their humanity, meaning that they will experience discrimination, harassment and other barriers to equality that men will never need to face. Discussions of all human beings that neglect to include nuances of experience based on someone’s gender or race may, perhaps unintentionally, ignore intolerance unique to these particular groups. At the same time, in formulating concepts such as human rights, justice and equality, humanism helped lay the groundwork for feminism and other movements to affirm the humanity and inherent worth of women and people of color. In light of the atrocity that is the Isla Vista killings, humanists and feminists should realize how much work is still left to be done in our society in order to promote the shared values of compassion, equality and respect.
Jessica Valenti’s speech at the conference appealed to these shared values. She called for greater empathy toward women, so that they would be recognized as human beings, not just sex objects and status symbols. She also called for an end to gender-based double standards, often perpetuated by religious teachings, which insult men by claiming that they have no self-control and defining them only by their sexual desires. During the question and answer period after her speech, many men in the audience expressed their desire to better understand gender inequality so that they could be both better feminists and humanists.
Valenti’s talk demonstrated the powerful intersections that exist between the feminist movement and the humanist movement. In a progressive environment, where women’s voices are heard and their stories are respected, human rights for everyone are upheld. With the dark shadow of the Isla Vista shooting still looming over the nation, the need for both feminism and humanism has never seemed greater. Our society needs more humanist heroines (and heroes!) like Jessica Valenti who will advocate for feminism and the recognition of women’s full humanity and dignity. We also need a culture that espouses the humanist values of equality, reason and compassion. By working together, both movements might more effectively combat the gender inequality, racism and violence that were at the heart of the Isla Vista shooting. The combined energy of both the feminist and humanist movements could strengthen discussions about the continuing need for women’s equality in our society and amplify the call to bolster human rights for all.

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miller_merrillMerrill Miller is the communications associate at the American Humanist Association.
 

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by John Rafferty • 10 June 2014



A Virgil quote in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Photo by Christopher Penler/123RF.


A Virgil quote in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Photo by Christopher Penler/123RF.
Let’s start with a conclusion: the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the displays and artifacts it houses, and the memorial park in which it is all situated, are a spectacular success.
Like many New Yorkers of my humanist-liberal stripe, I had no intention of ever visiting the park, let alone paying admission to the museum. After more than twelve years of 9/11-related pompous piety and political posturing, proposed designs both grandiose and unworkable, petty bureaucratic turf wars, and the endless tooth-and-nail squabbling by dozens of interest groups with both real and imagined claims on our collective memory of what we all now all simply call “9/11”—which conservative columnist Peggy Noonan called “the narcissism of small differences”—I had no interest in visiting what I thought would be a shrine to more of the same.
Wrong. It’s a beaut. It works. And I’m glad TheHumanist.com asked me to take a humanist look.
It’s 8:45 on a Saturday morning, and after staring into the park’s beautiful sunken fountains for a few minutes, I turn the corner around the blank steel outer walls of the museum and see somewhere between 200 and 300 people in line at the entrance, all clutching the same e-ticket I have for the 9:00am opening. But the line moves swiftly even as it grows longer behind me, and in a few minutes I step from bright spring sunshine into a gray cavern.
If “cavern” suggests vast space to you, then I have chosen the right word. The outside dimensions of the museum belie the enormous volume of its interior. This is an underground museum – seven stories down to the very foundations of the original twin towers. And in spite of literally thousands of displays and artifacts within it, a visitor feels a deep-in-the-earth emptiness, emphasized by subdued lighting and a gathering grayness as we descend.
The first display in which humanists may be interested is the Virgil quote: No day shall erase you from the memory of time, pronounced on a middle level in a 60-foot long inscription of 15-inch letters cut from steel of the towers. Someone must have thought it was a classy quote with which to memorialize the 9/11 victims, but the “you” Virgil was writing about in the Aeneid was a pair of murderous Trojan warriors (gay lovers, by the way) who had just hacked to death sleeping Rutulian soldiers, and then been killed themselves. The incongruity has been pointed out many times, but the inscription stands.
“SEPTEMBER 11, 2001” is the simple title of the main exhibition that threads through the lowest, foundational level of what New York Times art critic Edward Rothstein called “a museum of experience.” And it is an experience like no other I have had. Divided into Before, During and After sections, and starting with the “We have a report …” interruption of NBC’s Today show, it presents the events of that awful day and its aftermath in TV clips, photos, short looped videos, and seemingly countless artifacts. (If you walk more hurriedly than I did, you’d miss the footage, behind a blank wall, of people jumping from the towers.) But most moving of all are recordings made by survivors—and poignant phone calls from the soon-to-be-dead—that are matched to minute-by-minute explanatory schematics of the towers, of the Pentagon, and of Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. There is a reason there are tissue dispensers wherever one of the dozen or more different two- to eight-minute “shows” are projected.
“Islamist extremist group.” “Islamist terrorists.” The Museum does not pull punches in describing exactly who committed the atrocities, and why, in either its literature or in “The Rise of Al-Qaeda,” an eight-minute film narrated by Brian Williams on the Afghanistan/Osama bin Laden/”Islamist extremist” lead-up to 9/11. There have been many Islamophobia complaints about that, but not from this observer.
The infamous “Miracle Cross” is in the After section and, in spite of my worst anti-theist, humanist imaginings, I’m okay with what the museum has done. It’s not treated as a “miracle” nor given any special place or attention. It stands in a small grouping of artifacts that the exhibit card said gave some workers “spiritual solace.” Let’s face it: the damned thing is part of the 9/11 story. It was dragged out of the wreckage by construction workers, who did make a big deal of it (as did professional theists with agendas) and it was part of the media circus for a long while. But the museum treats it as just one more artifact among many. You really could walk by it without noticing it, and while I stood there at least 10 minutes taking notes, I did not see any special attention being paid to it.
Now on to the museum store. Much has been made by the easily offended about the appropriateness of selling knick-knacks on “hallowed ground.” Hello? This is America—we sell stuff. So yes, $20 plush dogs and teddy bears; $13 book marks; NYPD and Fire Department t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and badges; jewelry, charms and chachkas from $3 to $65; $20 commemorative mugs (as Sarah Silverman said on Real Time with Bill Maher, “How could you remember 9/11 without a mug?”) and loads of “I Love NY More Than Ever” crap for tourists who wouldn’t live here on a bet. This is all on top of a $24 admission price ($18 for seniors like me, and Tuesday evenings are free). Why? Because Congress, New York State and New York City, in their collective wisdom, appropriated zero dollars to cover any of the museum’s $63 million annual operating budget. And I saw no religious references in or on any of the materials. Let’s just get over it.
None of the gift shop offerings tempted me, so I headed for the escalator to leave and mused again on the silence after the subdued conversations in the store. Wait, not quite silent … what’s that canned music? Of course: “Amazing Grace.” Ah, what the hell—one more small offense to humanist sensibility, and I guess it could have been worse (Barbra Streisand’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”? Tom Jones’ “I Believe”?).
Sunshine, finally, was never more welcome. The 9/11 Memorial Museum is exceptional and successful—not one to like, but one to respect. Visit once—but only once.
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John Rafferty is president of the Secular Humanist Society of New York and editor of PIQUE, the group’s monthly newsletter. He is also a Humanist Celebrant and the UN liaison for Atheist Alliance International.
 

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by Merrill Miller • 10 June 2014


Jessica Valenti, recipient of the 2014 Humanist Heroine Award
Jessica Valenti, recipient of the 2014 Humanist Heroine Award
On June 7, 2014, Jessica Valenti received the Humanist Heroine Award at the American Humanist Association’s annual conference. Through her writing and filmmaking, Valenti has championed women’s equality, advocated for human rights and exposed the toxic nature of evangelical Christianity’s culture of sexual “purity.” Her work exemplifies feminist and humanist values, and she has revitalized issues of gender equity for a new generation.
Valenti’s many accomplishments have made her more than deserving of the Humanist Heroine Award. However, some individuals might express uncertainty about the ability of the feminist and humanist movements to work together. Some humanists feel that, because humanism promotes the rights of all human beings, there is no need for a movement that focuses specifically on women’s issues. Constructive criticism of feminism from the humanist movement (and vice versa) is certainly necessary for strengthening both causes, but Valenti’s speech at the awards luncheon focused on the reasons why a movement specifically for women is essential and should be supported by humanists. Through her discussion of the recent killings in Isla Vista, California, Valenti highlighted the ways in which women in the United States are still viewed not as fully human but as objects of sexual conquest and status for straight men.
Elliot Rodger, who killed seven people and wounded thirteen more in Isla Vista, was motivated by an ugly concoction of misogyny and racism, in which he viewed women and people of color as animals instead of human beings. In his written manifesto, Rodger reduced women to mere objects of men’s sexual desires. From his perspective, they were on par with fancy cars, designer watches and tailored suits. Women, to Rodger, were signs of a man’s wealth, prestige and masculinity; they were not fully human. Rodger also expressed disdain for his Asian heritage and saw men of color as weak and of lesser worth. While mental illness likely played a role in Rodger’s rampage, less violent forms of his prejudices can be seen in popular culture through ads that equates women’s bodies with products for sale and stereotypes that reduce men of color to sidekicks and punchlines. His chilling manifesto reflects and then magnifies bigotry that already exists within our society.
In a culture that still rejects the full humanity of certain groups, such as women and people of color, movements that focus specifically on problems of sexism and racism are crucial. Feminism’s specific perspective on women’s equality is necessary because women are all too often denied their humanity, meaning that they will experience discrimination, harassment and other barriers to equality that men will never need to face. Discussions of all human beings that neglect to include nuances of experience based on someone’s gender or race may, perhaps unintentionally, ignore intolerance unique to these particular groups. At the same time, in formulating concepts such as human rights, justice and equality, humanism helped lay the groundwork for feminism and other movements to affirm the humanity and inherent worth of women and people of color. In light of the atrocity that is the Isla Vista killings, humanists and feminists should realize how much work is still left to be done in our society in order to promote the shared values of compassion, equality and respect.
Jessica Valenti’s speech at the conference appealed to these shared values. She called for greater empathy toward women, so that they would be recognized as human beings, not just sex objects and status symbols. She also called for an end to gender-based double standards, often perpetuated by religious teachings, which insult men by claiming that they have no self-control and defining them only by their sexual desires. During the question and answer period after her speech, many men in the audience expressed their desire to better understand gender inequality so that they could be both better feminists and humanists.
Valenti’s talk demonstrated the powerful intersections that exist between the feminist movement and the humanist movement. In a progressive environment, where women’s voices are heard and their stories are respected, human rights for everyone are upheld. With the dark shadow of the Isla Vista shooting still looming over the nation, the need for both feminism and humanism has never seemed greater. Our society needs more humanist heroines (and heroes!) like Jessica Valenti who will advocate for feminism and the recognition of women’s full humanity and dignity. We also need a culture that espouses the humanist values of equality, reason and compassion. By working together, both movements might more effectively combat the gender inequality, racism and violence that were at the heart of the Isla Vista shooting. The combined energy of both the feminist and humanist movements could strengthen discussions about the continuing need for women’s equality in our society and amplify the call to bolster human rights for all.

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by John Rafferty • 10 June 2014



A Virgil quote in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Photo by Christopher Penler/123RF.


A Virgil quote in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Photo by Christopher Penler/123RF.
Let’s start with a conclusion: the 9/11 Memorial Museum, the displays and artifacts it houses, and the memorial park in which it is all situated, are a spectacular success.
Like many New Yorkers of my humanist-liberal stripe, I had no intention of ever visiting the park, let alone paying admission to the museum. After more than twelve years of 9/11-related pompous piety and political posturing, proposed designs both grandiose and unworkable, petty bureaucratic turf wars, and the endless tooth-and-nail squabbling by dozens of interest groups with both real and imagined claims on our collective memory of what we all now all simply call “9/11”—which conservative columnist Peggy Noonan called “the narcissism of small differences”—I had no interest in visiting what I thought would be a shrine to more of the same.
Wrong. It’s a beaut. It works. And I’m glad TheHumanist.com asked me to take a humanist look.
It’s 8:45 on a Saturday morning, and after staring into the park’s beautiful sunken fountains for a few minutes, I turn the corner around the blank steel outer walls of the museum and see somewhere between 200 and 300 people in line at the entrance, all clutching the same e-ticket I have for the 9:00am opening. But the line moves swiftly even as it grows longer behind me, and in a few minutes I step from bright spring sunshine into a gray cavern.
If “cavern” suggests vast space to you, then I have chosen the right word. The outside dimensions of the museum belie the enormous volume of its interior. This is an underground museum – seven stories down to the very foundations of the original twin towers. And in spite of literally thousands of displays and artifacts within it, a visitor feels a deep-in-the-earth emptiness, emphasized by subdued lighting and a gathering grayness as we descend.
The first display in which humanists may be interested is the Virgil quote: No day shall erase you from the memory of time, pronounced on a middle level in a 60-foot long inscription of 15-inch letters cut from steel of the towers. Someone must have thought it was a classy quote with which to memorialize the 9/11 victims, but the “you” Virgil was writing about in the Aeneid was a pair of murderous Trojan warriors (gay lovers, by the way) who had just hacked to death sleeping Rutulian soldiers, and then been killed themselves. The incongruity has been pointed out many times, but the inscription stands.
“SEPTEMBER 11, 2001” is the simple title of the main exhibition that threads through the lowest, foundational level of what New York Times art critic Edward Rothstein called “a museum of experience.” And it is an experience like no other I have had. Divided into Before, During and After sections, and starting with the “We have a report …” interruption of NBC’s Today show, it presents the events of that awful day and its aftermath in TV clips, photos, short looped videos, and seemingly countless artifacts. (If you walk more hurriedly than I did, you’d miss the footage, behind a blank wall, of people jumping from the towers.) But most moving of all are recordings made by survivors—and poignant phone calls from the soon-to-be-dead—that are matched to minute-by-minute explanatory schematics of the towers, of the Pentagon, and of Flight 93 that crashed in Pennsylvania. There is a reason there are tissue dispensers wherever one of the dozen or more different two- to eight-minute “shows” are projected.
“Islamist extremist group.” “Islamist terrorists.” The Museum does not pull punches in describing exactly who committed the atrocities, and why, in either its literature or in “The Rise of Al-Qaeda,” an eight-minute film narrated by Brian Williams on the Afghanistan/Osama bin Laden/”Islamist extremist” lead-up to 9/11. There have been many Islamophobia complaints about that, but not from this observer.
The infamous “Miracle Cross” is in the After section and, in spite of my worst anti-theist, humanist imaginings, I’m okay with what the museum has done. It’s not treated as a “miracle” nor given any special place or attention. It stands in a small grouping of artifacts that the exhibit card said gave some workers “spiritual solace.” Let’s face it: the damned thing is part of the 9/11 story. It was dragged out of the wreckage by construction workers, who did make a big deal of it (as did professional theists with agendas) and it was part of the media circus for a long while. But the museum treats it as just one more artifact among many. You really could walk by it without noticing it, and while I stood there at least 10 minutes taking notes, I did not see any special attention being paid to it.
Now on to the museum store. Much has been made by the easily offended about the appropriateness of selling knick-knacks on “hallowed ground.” Hello? This is America—we sell stuff. So yes, $20 plush dogs and teddy bears; $13 book marks; NYPD and Fire Department t-shirts, sweatshirts, hoodies and badges; jewelry, charms and chachkas from $3 to $65; $20 commemorative mugs (as Sarah Silverman said on Real Time with Bill Maher, “How could you remember 9/11 without a mug?”) and loads of “I Love NY More Than Ever” crap for tourists who wouldn’t live here on a bet. This is all on top of a $24 admission price ($18 for seniors like me, and Tuesday evenings are free). Why? Because Congress, New York State and New York City, in their collective wisdom, appropriated zero dollars to cover any of the museum’s $63 million annual operating budget. And I saw no religious references in or on any of the materials. Let’s just get over it.
None of the gift shop offerings tempted me, so I headed for the escalator to leave and mused again on the silence after the subdued conversations in the store. Wait, not quite silent … what’s that canned music? Of course: “Amazing Grace.” Ah, what the hell—one more small offense to humanist sensibility, and I guess it could have been worse (Barbra Streisand’s “You’ll Never Walk Alone”? Tom Jones’ “I Believe”?).
Sunshine, finally, was never more welcome. The 9/11 Memorial Museum is exceptional and successful—not one to like, but one to respect. Visit once—but only once.
Tags: 9/11
John Rafferty is president of the Secular Humanist Society of New York and editor of PIQUE, the group’s monthly newsletter. He is also a Humanist Celebrant and the UN liaison for Atheist Alliance International.
 

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