If Gillard chooses to play house with Tim Mathieson in the Lodge, this choice sends a strong message to the huge numbers of women who rightly admire her and seek to follow her example. A lifestyle suited to her particular needs may be riskier for many women and their children. It is so nice to [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Sex and the modern parent
Posted in feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, sex of the icky parental kind, work and family (im)balance on June 30, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Not such a grey area
Posted in aboriginal australia, race/anti-racism on June 30, 2010 | 3 Comments »
How can you explain this? A lack of sufficient evidence to lay charges?! You’ve got the Aboriginal elder who died of heat stroke and you’ve got the morons who transported him in the back of a sealed van with no air-conditioning for eight hours through the desert without once checking on him. I see evidence.
When calves see a toddler for the first time
Posted in cormac, motherhood bliss, toddlers on June 28, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Kisses
Posted in goddamn craft, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on June 27, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Lauca (aged 5) surprised us tonight with this card she had just made for us. I love it. The hearts as long-stemmed flowers; very nice. This is one of my fonder encounters with goddamn craft, though I imagine there may still be some crinkly cut edges of paper somewhere on the floor for me to [...]
Domesticity
Posted in babies, cormac, lauca, motherhood bliss, preschoolers on June 26, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Nothing remotely sensible happens during bathtime in our house. But stupidity can buy you ten minutes of time in the evening. Don’t knock it back, new mothers. Now, on a more or less unrelated note. Every six weeks or so we spend an entire weekend cleaning and sorting and fixing things around the house. It [...]
And then I cackled like the witch that I am
Posted in bill, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, lauca, motherhood, motherhood bliss, preschoolers, surnames on June 26, 2010 | 13 Comments »
Sometimes, but not often, the perfect thing happens at the perfect moment. A while back I was at a big social gathering with my in-laws and their friends, being on my best behaviour. I was arranging myself, and a very young Cormac on the couch, with Lauca hovering by my side, when an old friend [...]
On being a better feminist
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, work and family (im)balance on June 25, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Once when I was speaking about feminist motherhood at a conference I got pulled up by someone in the audience for describing my partner’s efforts in the home as “pretty good, really”. Pretty good ain’t equal, madam. Indeed. There is a great conversation happening over at Hoyden About Town, courtesy of Helen, and you might [...]
There is a lesson here
Posted in feminism, politics, work and family (im)balance on June 24, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Image: Newly appointed Prime Minister of Australia, Julia Gillard. (Image credit). We now have Australia’s first female Prime Minister and if you think as a feminist I might gloat a little.. you’d be right. This is a big deal. Since the outcome this morning (her appointment to Prime Minister came not through a general election [...]
Parenting lesson from the blogosphere
Posted in babies, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, preschoolers, toddlers on June 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Start young. Start.
When are we going to be Swedish already?
Posted in fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, maternity leave, motherhood, work and family (im)balance on June 23, 2010 | 4 Comments »
How is this for a description of work-life balance family utopia? Not only can I assume the men all look like this but when you do shack up with one of them he will also be equal parenting with you and, apart from blasting the heads off innocent little forest-dwelling creatures when he so chooses [...]
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