Comments | menthe_reglisse: I like driving in my car (but my baby don't care for cars and races. Luckily my toddler do).

menthe_reglisse

I like driving in my car (but my baby don't care for cars and races. Luckily my toddler do).

Aug 01, 2009 20:08

Things that have recently made me feel competent, empowered and like A Good Feminist:

Doing the lion's (and the tiger's and the giraffe's) share of the driving back from Pembrokeshire today. Especially since I felt the fear and did anyway some motorway driving. I am scared of motorway driving, specifically the business about having to be aware of ( Read more... )

holidays, feminism, failing to save the world, gender, domesticity

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childeric August 2 2009, 08:47:15 UTC

Just out of interest, what would your perspective be on the fact that men increasingly shave bits-of-themselves-that-aren't-their-faces, apparently for the same sorts of reasons that many women have been doing it all these years? Does that make it more okay for women to do it? Or does the fact that men are also falling for received notions of what makes the body beautiful just compound the error? But it shifts it from being such a gendered question into being one about the generalised perniciousness of the beauty myth, doesn't it? Enquiring minds need to know... ;)

menthe_reglisse August 4 2009, 19:44:46 UTC

There are negative consequences for men too in The Patriarchy... But I think many of them (including this one) are lesser for men.

It was a feeling of being traitorous - my thoughts are a little more complex and nuanced than my second-wave feminist gut reactions. I blame Matrix (do you remember that?)

merryhouse August 11 2009, 21:07:46 UTC

Do you know, for a split second there I thought you meant The Matrix ;-)

I kept a couple of cartoons from that magazine ("not another wishy-washy liberal!") till very recently.

Even though they didn't publish my book review of Descent of Woman. Humph.

memevector August 2 2009, 11:59:12 UTC

I am sure I have got stronger through lifting and playing with him

Likewise! (well not with PB of course :-) )

Offspring likes being whooshed up in the air and splooshed (nowadays dropped) down into the swimming pool. When she was a toddler it was really hard work. It seems both odd and gratifying that I can now do it with seemingly less effort...

I don't blame you for abdicating re garages. With the combination of (a) the Which facts and (b) more importantly the subjective tediosity, I doubt I'd bother either. But maybe there's some impressive bit of DIY that you've always secretly yearned to be able to do? That might be more worth the effort of learning. Then again maybe there just isn't ::haha::

menthe_reglisse August 4 2009, 19:47:09 UTC

Encouraging to hear that strength continues to develop with the child's growth. At least up to a point - I doubt I'll be slinging him over my shoulder when he's 16, but good to think I've probably got a few more years.

I ought really to take up some sort of DIY involving serious power tools that make loud noises and produce lots of dust and mess. But I'm scared of them.