Image credit: Zazzle.com Check out the piece on ‘playground pimp’ onesies and the sexualising of little boys in fashion over at double x. Thoughts? The sexualising of little boys in oh-so-ironic pop culture seems to be happening in a somewhat more knowing way (and on a much smaller scale) than is happening with little girls [...]
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The boys’ turn
Posted in babies, bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, fatherhood, feminism, motherhood, pop culture on November 29, 2009 | 10 Comments »
HATE MUM
Posted in child hatred bigotry, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth, yummy mummy on November 28, 2009 | 5 Comments »
This article, Everybody hates mommy by Lynn Harris is essential reading as it says pretty much everything there is to say about the animosity running hot right now towards mothers, well the middle-class ones anyway*. They’re usually unfairly stereotyped, but sometimes they’re also in our restaurants. I mean, I get it. I remember silently, uncharitably [...]
When feminists raise sons
Posted in babies, cormac, feminist motherhood, GLBTI, motherhood, motherhood bliss, your guide to perfect play dates on November 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Me: You know, it was a real mistake to have these baby boys last. We’re spoiling them terribly. We are probably creating nightmares for some poor women in the future. Those women will hate us. Feminist Mother Best Friend Forever: That’s true. We have to hope they are gay and grow up to fall in [...]
Near side
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on November 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Lauca has started horse riding lessons (what a bourgeois little opener that one is), and it is one of those moments as a parent where I am falling through the rabbit hole because my mind is flipping between recreating and remembering my childhood all at once. It is a hell of a nice way to [...]
The grownups are easy prey
Posted in child hatred bigotry, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, preschoolers, toddlers on November 22, 2009 | 9 Comments »
God, I recognise myself in this. It is an article about children’s books but more particularly what such books say about the way children are parented these days. There is a bit huffing and puffing in this piece, but they might have a point. So what should you do when a child throws a tantrum? [...]
There is a reason why I have an entire category dedicated to ‘motherhood sux’
Posted in babies, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers, toddlers, work and family (im)balance on November 20, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Because sometimes motherhood really does suck, and not just the times when the patriarchy is ganging up on you either. Crafty mothers make spectacularly beautiful blogs but something about the unrelenting beauty gives me pause, because really, day in and day out, no break in sight, giving and giving and giving, and no sign of [...]
The co-sleeper’s sex life
Posted in babies, co-sleeping, motherhood sux, sex of the icky parental kind on November 18, 2009 | 16 Comments »
I want to preface this piece with this and my response to it, which is I Have No Idea How. When you’re a co-sleeping parent nosey parkers want to know about your sex life. Not judging, I understand the whole nosey parker thing. How do co-sleepers manage to have sex? How does baby number two [...]
The free pass for judging parents
Posted in child hatred bigotry, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, toddlers, travelling with a toddler on November 17, 2009 | 9 Comments »
Kate Harding’s piece Screaming toddler on a plane is looking for a free pass to do some parent judging. Harding doesn’t want to be a shit about it, so could you cut her some slack? By the time she lists her caveats you probably can. No judging child outbursts in public if they also involve [...]
Sixth
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood on November 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
The Sixth Carnival of Feminist Parenting is up over at Mothers for Women’s Lib. This is a carnival with quite a few blogs I am not familiar with so happy clicking for me. You can click too. Yes you can. And here’s a picture for you. A belated Halloween photo. Halloween was my pumpkin’s third [...]
It is alive.. and still spreading misinformation
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux on November 17, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Aww nostalgia. I heard that old blue milk myth again (sometimes the story changes to ‘green milk’), it was in the context of being given ‘advice’ for New Year’s Eve. You know, in case I was considering drinking alcohol and endangering my precious, precious baby. I didn’t correct them. I couldn’t be bothered, we’d already [...]
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