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A Woman and Her Ukelele
I (heart) Nellie McKay -
Preschool Feminist
I overheard the following excellent conversation between two four-year-olds when I dropped my daughter off at preschool last week. Names have been changed ( Read more... ) -
Praise the insanity.
I just spent six hours cleaning my kitchen. The floor is clean enough to have sex on, and I have to wear sunglasses when I open the refrigerator. -
What abortion? Where?
Until yesterday, on the reproductive health database Popline, run by Johns Hopkins University and funded by USAID, the Agency for International Development, it was not possible to run a search for the term "abortion." Oh, there are articles about abortion in the database, but if you wanted to find them, you had to use obscure controlled ( Read more... ) -
(Untitled)
There's a long snarky article in the New York Times Magazine about Janie Fredell, president of Harvard's True Love Revolution, and organization advocating premarital abstinence. I have no problem, of course, with Fredell's personal choice to remain abstinent. I even think that she makes a few reasonable points. Yes, we live in a culture that ( Read more... ) -
Monogamy may be a myth...
...but misogyny is alive and well. This article, by Natalie Angier no less, is supposedly about the fact that monogamy doesn't really exist in the animal kingdom. But for some reason, it can't stop insisting that prostitution is the same thing as general infidelity. Even animals trade favors for sex, so where's the harm? As if trading favors for ( Read more... ) -
Cancer for sluts!
Canadian doctors are allowed to deny women pap smears (and contraception, of course) based on religious objections. Women who are denied pap smears tend to be young and unmarried. I am absolutely fucking horrified that this is legal. And this is Canada we're talking about, for fuck's sake, not Ireland or Iran or someplace. Fuck. This is why it ( Read more... ) -
An idyllic family moment
The husband came downstairs this morning and demanded with mock disapproval, "Why didn't you make me coffee?"
"I was fending off the brain-eating shark," I explained.
"That's the best answer I've ever heard," he acknowledged, watching fondly as our daughter climbed all over me, chomping merrily at my head. -
Doom and the Single Woman
If you want to be massively annoyed and insulted, read this:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200803/single-marry
I won't bother to rant about it here. You can check out joreth's post for that. She has basically the same take on it as I do ( Read more... )
