Many of the YouTube commenters show a lack of familiarity with the 1980s version of masculinity presented in the video and read in soft phrasing and careful grooming evidence of effeminacy rather than the textbook pop star masculinity that it was. From the very amazing Harvest Bird on Terence Trent D’Arby. Yeah, it’s been way [...]
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On pop star masculinity in the 80s
Posted in pop culture, sex of the icky parental kind on December 30, 2011 | 4 Comments »
Some men get it
Posted in feminism, rape/sexual abuse on December 30, 2011 | 2 Comments »
About this. Now, not all atheists are misogynists. Nobody’s saying that. What Rebecca was saying, and what I’m reiterating and many others have as well is that misogyny is a problem in the atheist community. And it’s a problem we don’t need and I would hope don’t want. Life’s hard enough being an atheist, why [...]
How a kid holding a Carl Sagan book showed us all how truly horrible the Internet can be..
Posted in bratz hatred/pornification/sexualising children, feminism, raising daughters, rape/sexual abuse on December 29, 2011 | 30 Comments »
You must read this from Skepchick. And this additional comment from Kate Harding. Men, you have a problem here, you have to take some responsibility for this misogynist shit, even if you’re not perpetrating it, in fact, especially if you’re not perpetrating it because your stepping up is the only way to stop this stuff. [...]
These two
Posted in bill, cormac, fatherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers, travelling with a toddler on December 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Skin loved
Posted in body image, cormac, motherhood, motherhood bliss, toddlers on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The two year old pointing to the skin over my rib. Cormac: What’s this? Me: A mole. Cormac: I love moles.
Corruption of the ‘green movement’ and other thoughts to think while walking
Posted in downsized living, feminism, i like walking, politics on December 28, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Beautiful, beautiful writing (probably the most beautifully written and observed article I’ve read all year!) from Paul Kingsnorth in Orion – “Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist”. His arguments are challenging, as they should be, and deeply pessimistic. I’m naturally an optimist but then I’m also an economist. But these are not, I think, very common [...]
Reclaiming ‘cunt’ with kids
Posted in body image, fatherhood, feminism, feminist motherhood, motherhood, motherhood sux, preschoolers, raising daughters on December 27, 2011 | 21 Comments »
I remember being with a group of feminist friends talking about the names we use for our vulvas. (Yes, such conversations really do happen among feminists, we’re that cliché). A radical feminist in the group, most of us were, explained that knowing the history and meaning of the various terms she’d chosen to reclaim ‘cunt’. [...]
The Xmas of Lumix (2011)
Posted in body image, cormac, lauca, me, motherhood, motherhood bliss, school kids, toddlers on December 27, 2011 | 7 Comments »
Bill gave me a Lumix camera for a combined Birthday-Christmas present. I am besotted.. with the camera. Bill’s not half bad either. Christmas Eve dinner. Lauca. Brought to you by the Bruny Island Cheese Club. School holiday chaos. Christmas night. I don’t know why my father-in-law had a television out in their back yard. Found [...]
Guest Post: Best anti-feminist headline ever
Posted in feminism, motherhood, motherhood sux, work and family (im)balance on December 27, 2011 | 5 Comments »
This is a guest post from long time reader, Jen. Gawd, I don’t usually read the Daily Fail but it was the only newspaper in the pub this evening when I was given “time out” from The Child. Best anti-feminist headline ever: The mothers who spend just 19 minutes a day with their children And [...]
One day here, a kitchen garden
Posted in bill, home, motherhood bliss, vegetarians are not fun on December 23, 2011 | 10 Comments »
This is a step closer to the kitchen garden we’re planning for our little home. (Seriously, Google ‘kitchen gardens’ some day and kiss the rest of your afternoon goodbye. Sunday Reed’s kitchen garden at the Heide Museum of Modern Art is the first kitchen garden I fell in love with, so you know, kitchen gardening [...]
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