by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 24, 2014 | for Good
Today Paul Rolly of the Salt Lake Tribune wrote an article on the scuzzball advertising consuming Carl's Jr. He quoted my post from last month, Sleazevertising: An Open Letter to the BYU Athletic Department. In spite of forwarding the letter to every person I could...
by Alison Moore Smith | Sep 21, 2014 | for Love, for Spirit
Business 101 My first day in business school I learned about opportunity cost. It blew my mind. (I was young.) The opportunity cost of a choice is the value of the best alternative forgone, in a situation in which a choice needs to be made between several mutually...
by Alison Moore Smith | Aug 29, 2014 | for Good
Note to internet dolts: This letter is not about modesty. (I believe women should be able to dress as they choose and men should grow up and learn to control themselves. You know, like adults.) The letter is about female objectification. If you don't know the...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jul 18, 2014 | for Spirit
Below is the (painstaking) transcript of an interview broadcast on KUER. There are a number of points in it that are worth discussing, but I could find no text transcript to point to, so I created it myself. Date: Tuesday, June 15, 2014 Interviewer: Doug Fabrizio-...
by Alison Moore Smith | Jun 26, 2014 | for Spirit
I started this post on April 9th, but never had the heart to finish it. Maybe now I do. Last fall I wrote a post titled A Christlike Response to Radical Mormon Feminism. I'm not part of the Ordain Women group—because I have some differing opinions on...