AKA I got nuthin’.
No, that’s not true: I have two amazingly kick-ass half-written posts, plus the usual host of knock-your-socks-off-if-I-ever-get-them-written post ideas. But actual publishable content?
Um…
Hey look! Links!
I Blame the Mother has been hopping:
Just over a week ago, I wrote “A Nation of Wimps”: guess who’s to blame!, on an oldie-but-baddie article at Psychology Today. Not only does the author blame the mother, it’s absolutely full of disability fail as well. Fun!
Then blottedcopybook knocked a couple out of the park with Mothers who work have unhealthy, unfit children, in which she points out how the mother-blaming culture has lead to this gem of a mother-blame, and It’s only equality if the government can’t exploit it, on how child-care swaps are apparently criminal in the UK. (And if my fellow US citizens feel smug on this issue, read this. It not only could happen here, it has.)
Ruth Moss blames Gordylocks for blaming teenage mothers (tip: teenage mumhood is nothing new, y’all), and creates the greatest tag of all time: I don’t blame the fathers because well parthogenesis innit.
In triggery-blamage (seriously, don’t read these if you’re low on spoons; they deal with rape), Lucy addresses the Polanski “fun” with Girl’s mother caused Polanski to rape, and blottedcopybook is back with They call this justice? No level of snark in the world could make that one palatable.
And because it’s not teh intarwebz without ONOZ TEH PEDOPHILES, we leave off with Ruth Moss’s Paedophiles — whose fault? Guess. There’s a reason I love her (platonically, Lucy!).
Oh, and I have a new glossary entry up for EC / elimination communication. I started writing a post on EC, privilege, and kyriarchy, and was getting bogged down (bogged? gittit? hm, the Brits in the audience snickered at least) by the 101, split it off, and that’s the result. For whatever that’s worth.
And that’s this week’s meta and linkage! Hope you enjoy, and I’ll be back with Actual Original Content just as soon as sleep schedules, school, the crazy in my brain, and that fickle lover inspiration all allow.
Wish me luck.
(Since I’ve long since given up on Google Reader — did you know it stops counting at 1000 unread posts? –, drop a line and a link in the comments if there’s aught you want me to see. Self-promotion is welcome and appreciated!)
google reader has a nice feature to mark all posts older than x as read – good for when the numbers feel overwhelming. go to all posts and there’s a button for mark as read, in the dropdown is an option for all or for older than a day, week or two weeks.
it’s great for clearing out the old stuff and focusing on what;s new, relevant and important, or just what you really want to read.
reading can feel like an obligation, but even if it somehow comes up that you skipped it just pretend like it’s 9th grade and you haven’t read the book for english – everything references Shakespeare and the lesson is always be good, believe in yourself and don’t give in to peer pressure. (bonus, the apple is always a biblical metaphor)
-vittra