Welcome to RMB’s 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 so on — [...]
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8 March 2010 at 10:35 pm | Category: Gender, Mental Health, Parenting | Tags: gifted, isms, societal pressures | 18 comments
Like this? Share it: 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 [...] 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: 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: It’s a phrase inevitably whispered, two words to strike fear and hope and the embodiment of ambivalence: “I’m late.” It simply must be whispered, voice low but weighty, urgent, breathy, breathlessly. But Wordpress doesn’t do “whisper”, so: I’m late. …to blog about my period. Two whole days. I know, you’re shocked and disappointed in me that I [...] 24 December 2009 at 12:48 am | Category: Menstruation, Parenting | Tags: holidays, societal pressures | 9 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: 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
Like this? Share it: I’ve written before about my opinions on gender and kids’ clothing: this entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer brings in a more femme opinion from a self-identified “girly-girl” feminist. Jenny, who recently started blogging at The Big Cheesy, talks about her feelings around dressing her daughter in frilly clothes — sometimes — and her reluctance [...] 2 December 2009 at 11:53 pm | Category: Gender, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | Tags: clothing, societal pressures | 13 comments
Like this? Share it: In this entry to the Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer, we see that sometimes the little moments and the big moments are the same thing. When Susannah told me this story, of making her preschooler’s “family poster” and realizing it’ll be the first time he’ll really be vulnerable to homophobic bigotry — or “simple” ignorant schoolyard teasing [...] 11 November 2009 at 6:00 am | Category: Parenting, Sexuality, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | Tags: family, school, societal pressures | 13 comments
Like this? Share it: A couple weeks ago, I was accosted on Twitter by a Twit without children on the topic of parenting and how I wuz doin it rong. I wrote a long (and witty, if I do say so myself) ranty blog post, which will never see the light of day (or the pixels of publishing), even [...] 8 September 2009 at 6:00 am | Category: Attachment Parenting, Parenting | Tags: anti-child hate, I Blame The Mother, mother blame, societal pressures | 6 comments
Like this? Share it: The Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer has been honored with the following contribution from Ruth, who blogs at Look Left of the Pleiades and the group blog Mothers for Women’s Lib. In this piece, Ruth discusses her experience raising a child with a white cis man who hasn’t explored his privileges and doesn’t wish to, who actively perpetuates [...] 3 September 2009 at 12:32 pm | Category: Kyriarchy, Parenting, Privilege, Womanist/Feminist Parenting Primer | Tags: division of labor, domesticity, falling short, societal pressures, TV | 12 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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