Most parents, in my observation, have a hard time sending their child off to school — or anyone else’s care — for the first time. Although I have to believe it mostly a stereotype, or give up on humanity altogether, the meme of the parent — usually a mother, of course– picking a preschool as [...]
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7 March 2010 at 10:59 pm | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: gender roles, school, societal pressures | 15 comments
Like this? Share it: That, of course, is the first rule of nutrition. And there are no other rules. I just read this fabulous post over at Spilt Milk: Let us eat cake, and in the comments, in my own rambling, I had something of a revelation, immediately followed by a reality check: I said that the Boychick never “doesn’t like” [...] 23 February 2010 at 3:39 am | Category: Body, Fat is a feminist issue, Kyriarchy, Parenting, Privilege | Tags: food, Health At Every Size | 17 comments
Like this? Share it: Welcome to RMB’s first installment of Naked Pictures of Faceless People, a series of guest posts from diverse anonymous bloggers. (Read more about NPFP’s origins.) These are the posts that are jumping to get out of us, but for whatever reason — safety, embarrassment, conflict of interest, protection of loved ones’ reputations or feelings, or [...] 8 February 2010 at 12:58 am | Category: Kyriarchy, Naked Pictures of Faceless People, Privilege | Tags: activism | 27 comments
Like this? Share it: If you follow me on Twitter, you’ve seen most of these. For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter1, I highly recommend reading the following, if you haven’t already (most are not recent posts): Feminist Parenting: Teaching History I’ve never had any thought of telling her about [Elizabeth Cady] Stanton thru rose colored glasses. Far [...] 25 January 2010 at 12:29 am | Category: Gender, Links, Parenting, Privilege, Race | Tags: intersectionality, racism, white privilege | 2 comments
Like this? Share it: Y’all know that I blame the kyriarchy — to talk only of patriarchy is to whitewash (ha ha) the myriad ways that people, including women, are variously oppressed and privileged. It pretends that all women experience oppression in the same ways, and focuses on sexism as the prime or only marginalization of women (because the [...] 22 January 2010 at 2:55 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Privilege | Tags: ableism, cis privilege, double binds, intersectionalism, isms, racism, societal pressures, white privilege | 8 comments
Like this? Share it: I am thinking big thoughts. I am thinking about evil, about the act of allying, about oppression and anti-oppression, about the thoughts shaping actions and the problems of thought police, about babies and bathwater and deep waters we drown in and deep waters that sustain us. I am thinking about the importance of high standards, the importance [...] 8 January 2010 at 4:42 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Privilege, Sexuality | Tags: Lesbian/Bisexual Woman of the Decade, self-indulgent introspection, trans, transmisogyny | 5 comments
Like this? Share it: Today I have a new piece hosted over at Annie’s engaging blog PhD in Parenting: Christmas: a time for cookies, carols, cookies, and conflicting ideals, on how The (atheist) Man and (Wiccan) I attempt to deal with the pervasiveness of both secular and religious Christmas, in which I (over?)extend a cookie metaphor: Cookies are the perfect [...] 17 December 2009 at 11:18 am | Category: Parenting, Privilege | Tags: holidays, societal pressures, USA | 3 comments
Like this? Share it: In replying to some comments on my last post, There are no solutions in the status quo, I was thinking that while heady and intellectual is good sometimes, so too are concrete examples. So here is what I would want changed to be supported by society, and what things did go/are going well: When the Boychick [...] 11 December 2009 at 2:50 am | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Mental Health, Parenting, Privilege | Tags: birth, breastfeeding, class privilege, family, fathers, making the revolution, postpartum, USA | 16 comments
Like this? Share it: A friend of mine, Lyla Wolfenstein, posted a link to this article on her Facebook page tonight: Mother and Child Communion: A Collective Challenge for Our Future While I’m a fan of biologically appropriate parenting, and have been known to say that I believe in attachment theory the same way I believe in the theory of [...] 10 December 2009 at 1:42 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Gender, Kyriarchy, Privilege | Tags: attachment theory, gender roles, misogyny, mother blame, societal pressures | 16 comments
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In my bathroom hangs a plaque with a picture of a yin yang and the word BALANCE. I can never get it to hang straight. This probably says something deep and meaningful about my life.
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“I am a feedback… investment banker?” On language, kyriarchy, and problematic metaphors
I was replying to a question from the inimitable Kelly Diels on “Why do you blog?“, and wrote the following (feel free to read the whole thing — it amuses me — but the part relevant to the rest of this post is at the end, highlighted in bold):
I started blogging because I kept thinking [...]
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