This weekend we discovered the way to Cormac’s affections is through jealousy. If you want to get him on to the lap of someone who is dying to hold him but who he is refusing to be held by (say a doting relative from out of town) then that person should pick up another more [...]
Archive for May, 2010
Learning about Cormac
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood bliss on May 30, 2010 | 6 Comments »
I miss
Posted in babies, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers, toddlers on May 29, 2010 | 9 Comments »
I generally blame parenthood but maybe it is more about getting older because some of our childless friends say they are missing it too. It is more than the elaborate dinner parties, and god knows it is so much more than the enormous, loud, smokey parties because they were getting exhausting even in my twenties.. [...]
The verdict is still out on five year olds
Posted in lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, motherhood sux, preschoolers on May 27, 2010 | 11 Comments »
Things to love about five year olds: 1. Their capacity for reasoning. 2. Their confidence. 3. Their vivid imagination. 4. Their sense of self. And these are also some of the things I hate about five year olds. 1. I hate the constant fibbing. I hate the way she thinks her parents are idiots and [...]
The burqa
Posted in body image, feminism on May 26, 2010 | 1 Comment »
So, I see that now we’re talking about the burqa again. And in spite of the fact that I keep hearing that us feminists are getting it all wrong – somehow simultaneously politically correct apologists and culturally insensitive hypocrites – the most sensible thing, by far, that I’ve read in recent days on the topic [...]
Contemporary family life OR Death by a thousand negotiations
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on May 24, 2010 | 16 Comments »
Are you a dual income middle-class household with multiple children? If so, read this revealing article from The New York Times, which I have basically cannibalised here because I find it so fascinating so maybe no need to click over, and then tell me do you recognise yourself here? Because I sure do. From 2002 [...]
Shock! Celebrity breasts have a purpose outside of our ogling
Posted in breastfeeding, feminism, motherhood, pop culture, yummy mummy on May 23, 2010 | 5 Comments »
If you thought the world had a rather ridiculous response to celebrities breastfeeding then just imagine what they’re like about celebrities breastfeeding their twins. (Clue: it involves lots of NSFW warnings). Below is a cute self-portrait of Julie Bowen, star of Modern Family breastfeeding her twin baby boys – a photograph she showed on a [...]
New do
Posted in lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on May 22, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Lauca’s hair used to look like this. And as of today it looks like this. Five years old, first hair-cut ever. We have some issues when it comes to letting go and moving on.
You have got to be kidding
Posted in abortion, fatherhood, feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth on May 21, 2010 | 13 Comments »
I know controversy sells but all the same Stephanie Fairyington is being far too generous to this bullshit in “The Parent Trap: Paternal Rights and Abortion”. Greg Bruell and his girlfriend of a year and a half, Sandra Hedrick, had a pact. “We agreed that if we got pregnant, we’d terminate because we were not [...]
Someone should write a book about that.. and they did
Posted in babies, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, work and family (im)balance on May 21, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Should you ever want to dismantle what little domestic equality you may have otherwise carved out for yourself with your partner then I recommend having a baby with them. New book announcement: When Couples Become Parents: The Creation of Gender in the Transition to Parenthood by Bonnie Fox (University of Toronto Press). Based on interviews [...]
PeTA is not against cruelty
Posted in feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, pop culture, race/anti-racism on May 20, 2010 | 7 Comments »
PeTA must be the most tasteless, sexist, nasty ‘rights’ group around. This time they are revelling in the humiliation of Nadya Suleman and capitalising on the patriarchy’s desire to discipline deviant women. ‘De-sexing’ in the patriarchy has always been a favourite move against women considered deviant in any manner: non-white, disabled, queer, independent etc. Some of [...]
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