Question: What’s Your Style of Cooking?
Well, since Jill appears to be generating an entire week’s worth of feminist content in one day, I figured I’d follow Amanda’s and Lindsay’s lead and throw out a question to the Feministas: What’s your style of cooking? I’m very much a seat-of-the-pants cook, throwing stuff together. I do use cookbooks, but I treat recipes [...]
...read moreHi There. Plus, Postfeminism: Innocuous Descriptive Term or Crock of Antifeminist Poop?
Hi y’alls. Thanks to Jill for asking me to participate in the summer o’ guest blogging, especially since the only thing I write regularly these days is e-mail. I’m excited to be kicked in the pants to write more, and also to be part of the conversations here. A little bit about me: I used [...]
...read moreBecause I promised…
Way back when I was tagged to be a guest-blogger here, I said that I would write some race-relations 101 posts. I have some ideas (and I’m hoping to flesh out at least one of them today), but I’d like to know what there’s an interest in too. I know there isn’t a race equivalent [...]
...read moreCriticizing the things you love
How do you balance criticism of something (or acknowledging its weaknesses) with your appreciation for it? I liked the Transformers movie, on the whole… but I still left yelling “Why did the black robot have to die?” Thinking about the racist, sexist stuff in the movie didn’t diminish my enjoyment of it… but it did [...]
...read moreA Question for Pro-Lifers
I know there are at least a few regular readers who self-identify as “pro-life.” So here’s a question for you: How much time should she do? One goal of the anti-choice movement is to outlaw abortion. But, as Anna Quindlen points out, anti-choice activists are almost never able to identify what the legal consequences should [...]
...read morePerez Hilton and the celebutante meltdown
I have no particular love for Perez Hilton (real name Mario Armando Lavandeira) , and clearly he doesn’t mind it that way. (For those with the fortune to have missed out on the PH phenomenon, he’s a celebrity gossip blogger with a penchant for abusing photoshop.) While the New York Times cheerfully documents his misadventures, [...]
...read moreSigh. It’s so hard having a dick.
In case you were unaware, one of the things that I am good at is mocking people who seem to believe in the universal male or female experience. The purpose of such articles are usually to get laughter that sympathizes with whatever gender truths that we experience that moment. It’s so universal, either it is [...]
...read moreGuys and Dolls
Creepiest. Video. Ever. I feel pretty sorry for some of the guys in this video. There seems to be a pretty obvious combination of poor social skills, low self-esteem, and woman-hating. The first guy seems relatively harmless, but the dude with the gun strikes me as a little… unstable. First, you know, the combination of [...]
...read more“Sicko,” addendum, or: it’s the end of the U.S. dominated world as we know it, and I don’t feel so good myself.
Jill kindly emailed me to let me know I can still post into the wee hours tonight if I want to, and apparently I do, after all. A few what-I-thought-were-disparate ideas sort of congealing, then:
...read moreThe Revolution Will Not Be Crocheted, Preserved, or Canned. Or, Hey, Maybe It Will, But If So…
Basically, Kim of Bastante Already! has this piece ruminating about her lack of affinity for the traditional womanly arts.
Amid her notes that she hates gardening and cooking and simply doesn’t have the wherewithal for making a beautiful “nest” right now, she asks,
In damn near every feminist periodical (Bitch, Bust) and on many feminist blogs, there’s this big, trendy push to get all Knitty and Crafty and Womanly Arts with our bad selves.
What is up with that?
Well, a few different things are up with that…
...read moreAnother Post on Children: A Lesbian Couple, Sperm Donation, and Me…
I was reading this article from the Washington Post earlier today, and thinking about the situation that this guy is in. It makes me wonder how common these sorts of situations are. I think that most of us, by now, realize how uncommon the Nuclear Family is. We have families with step-children and half-brothers and [...]
...read moreHow a Post About Iran Punishing Porn Prompted an Epiphany
I wasn’t going to write about it. I really wasn’t. When I wrote about children, I wasn’t aware of the can of worms I was opening, but there are some things that I know are Big Messy Issues. Some things that I know people get upset about. I’m not sure that I’m equiped to comment [...]
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