So, here may be the strangest potential male celebrity role model for a campaign aimed at ending violence against women that ever there could be.. Alexander Sarsgård, who plays a vampire in True Blood and who also has an increasingly large number of crush-struck male and female fans desperately wanting him to bite them. In [...]
Archive for June, 2010
Combine your activism with your crush
Posted in feminism on June 11, 2010 | 5 Comments »
A Bauhaus mess in the living room
Posted in motherhood bliss, pop culture, preschoolers, toddlers on June 10, 2010 | 5 Comments »
Beautifully cute. This architectural blog whimsically reviewed cubby houses built by children out of couch cushions: Before we were influenced by Mies van der Rohe or Frank Lloyd Wright, before we had seen the visual delights of Ronchamp, Pompidou Center and the Bauhaus school in Weimar, we were driven by a greater force of design [...]
Compare and contrast
Posted in babies, breastfeeding, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, pregnancy and birth on June 8, 2010 | 27 Comments »
Oh how we love to tell a pregnant woman what to do. And as I’ve said once before: of all the risks facing a baby we seem to give special precedence to any that can possibly involve further controlling the lives of women. The public health message on pregnancy and alcohol is a prime example, [...]
But why shouldn’t she take some responsibility too for the rape?
Posted in feminism, rape/sexual abuse, sex of the icky parental kind on June 5, 2010 | 226 Comments »
I am going to assume the person who left this comment on my post Don’t get raped is a man: When it comes to any kind of crime, I think it is important to make a distinction between blame and responsibility. In all cases all of the blame belongs to the perpetrators. However, in some [...]
A picture also leaves out a few words
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood sux, toddlers on June 4, 2010 | 4 Comments »
This afternoon sucked, but you would never know from the photos I took at the playground. The children looked perfectly happy, almost as though their mother wasn’t a grumpy old bag.
Ladylike
Posted in body image, feminism, pop culture, sex of the icky parental kind on June 4, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I don’t do trigger warnings here, you might have noticed. Instead I usually try to ensure that either the title or the first paragraph of the post alerts the reader to a topic when it is potentially disturbing. A couple of posts back I wrote about rape – and more particularly, victim-blaming – and I [...]
I like it
Posted in me, nothing on June 3, 2010 | 5 Comments »
People, upside down tomatoes. I think you need to know about it.
Abortion and responsibility
Posted in abortion, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood sux, politics on June 3, 2010 | 8 Comments »
We’ve all made the abortion arguments so many times before that it can be difficult to make any of them sound novel and therefore compelling, which is something of a shame when you’re in the business of making an argument, and all. But Jane Caro really manages to convey some of the pro-choice arguments with [...]
Missing everything?
Posted in babies, cormac, motherhood sux, toddlers on June 3, 2010 | 7 Comments »
Cormac likes to put shit in shit and as a result I don’t know where shit is. Anything that is small and not nailed down in our house has been carted away and stuffed inside something else, something obscure, something you or I might not even recognise to be an opening, so where to even [...]
No really, what does a feminist mother look like?
Posted in 10 feminist motherhood questions, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood bliss, race/anti-racism on June 1, 2010 | 1 Comment »
Image credit: “I love Orgasms” by the fabulous Sarah Maple. Right now is there anything more transforming of a woman’s appearance than a head scarf? It seems to flick a switch for red-hot stereotypes about her likely ethnicity, language, family structure, attitudes, politics, feminism – pretty much everything about who we think she is. I [...]
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