From Divine Mother, Blessed Mother: Hindu Goddesses and the Virgin Mary, by Francis X Clooney, SJ, pg 4 ( Read more... )

(for miss_swamp)

I am pleased by this. Why? Why should it matter? There is no rational answer. When I was close to pushing her out I remember thinking 'Please be a girl so I don't have to do this again.' And now I have her and she's delicious.

But as I was sitting quietly and nursing her (as I do so often) the realization hit me: Oh my god, I have a ( Read more... )

Erinya commented on my last post and got me thinking. Bennett is discovering male and female. Erinya liked that I asked if he wanted to be a woman when he shook his head no when I told him he was going to be a man. I realize that gender is something we're not supposed to play around with. I mean, I know this in grown up life. If you're gender-queer or a ( Read more... )

Bennett knows the word 'man.' He'll see a picture of one or a man on the street and say 'man!' This morning while getting dressed he was saying the word and listing some of his favorite characters. I said 'Sokka is a man. Papa is a man. Mama is a woman. And Bennett is a boy, who will become a man.' He shook his head. I said 'You don't want to be a ( Read more... )

This article on the Vatican, excommunication and 9 yr old pregnant girls is devastating. Were I not fighting dizzy to function at work today I would write something articulate and scathing ( Read more... )

This is a post for all those born male and for mothers of males ( Read more... )

Before Bennett, we hosted Thanksgiving, threw a Solstice party, and celebrated Christmas on Christmas Eve by wandering around San Francisco, going out to eat and catching a carol service. The next day was spent in jammies, lounging about eating Adam's homemade cinnamon rolls ( Read more... )

Two nicely written blog posts about Sarah Palin:

Scroll down to the second half of Savage Love.

A religious feminist's point of view on Palin.

Hey Ladies-

An author is writing a book about women's relationships and "mean-girls." Go give your two cents, you know you want to!

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This article in today's NYT drives me nuts. While I do think that having kids, particularly infants, makes a woman have to work harder at getting things done, it is not insurmountable. The discussion of whether Palin is ready to be VP based on her having 5 kids, one of which has special needs and is an infant, drives me crazy. This discussion would ( Read more... )