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This is how feminists get a reputation for being humorless: we fail to laugh at jokes or quips that serve the kyriarchy. Like the one I heard yesterday, from D, an otherwise dear friend, spouse of my sister-in-all-but-genetics-and-law. He and The Man were outside with the Boychick and his cousin, watching them run through the [...] 5 July 2009 at 1:14 pm | Category: Fathering, Gender, Parenting, Patriarchy, Privilege | Tags: domesticity, feminists don't laugh, gender roles, male privilege, men, the double standard | 15 comments
Like this? Share it: Okeedoke, I was trying to write an entire actual, y’know, post to go with these comics, but… nah. Later, maybe. For now, a quick explanation: several years ago, long before the Boychick’s conception much less birth or extrauterine life (which is to say, way before I had any first-hand experience with any of this), I [...] 21 June 2009 at 10:55 pm | Category: Attachment Parenting, Fathering, Gender, Parenting | Tags: babywearing, breastfeeding, domesticity, fathers, men, pictures | 7 comments
Like this? Share it: (But no, I didn’t ovulate on day 14. Interesting factoid: the cycle I did finally conceive the Boychick, I not only ovulated on day 14, but then birthed him at 40w9d, which is the actual average length of gestation for a spontaneous labor in a primipara. He was a by the book baby!) So I [...] 17 June 2009 at 11:16 pm | Category: Menstruation, Sexuality | Tags: men, sex | 6 comments
Like this? Share it: If the patriarchy is good for men, then feminism, which opposes and seeks to dismantle the patriarchy, must be bad for men, and men become feminist’s enemies, the pawns and bishop and knights of the patriarchy, if you will. We need to recruit allies, not create enemies which the “us v. them” rhetoric does [...] 21 January 2009 at 7:23 pm | Category: Gender, Kyriarchy, Patriarchy, Privilege, Race, Sexuality | Tags: isms, male privilege, men, white privilege | 5 comments
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Arwyn
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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