07 October 2009 ~ 3 Comments

Tattoos and Memories

photo credit: mborowick
I have a blue smiley face tattooed on my left butt cheek. (sorry, no picture)
I bring it up only because when reading the paper this evening I recognized a name. A guy I had went to school with who was now going on to jail. I laughed with Michael that there was [...]

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15 August 2009 ~ 2 Comments

No, I Don’t Hate Men…

photo credit: SarahDeer
There is the common stereotype that to be a feminist means that you hate men. If you don’t like stupid women jokes, if you don’t think that slut deserved it, if you don’t think bitches be crazy, if you don’t nod and agree that those other women are irrational and moody [...]

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14 June 2009 ~ 6 Comments

Attachment Parenting, Feminism, and Raising Sons

Arwyn of Raising My Boychick has a great post up on teaching sons not to be rapists. I want to “yes! yes! yes!” the entire post.
Dearest has been known to give me the raised eyebrow when he hears me tell the boys “No means no.” He thinks I’m jumping the gun here, after all [...]

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12 February 2009 ~ 4 Comments

I’m a Mother And a Feminst And I’ll Still Kick Your Ass

I could write a long, seething rant about equality and motherhood and how telling women to STFU because they’re “just mothers” is pretty much a textbook example of being anti-feminist. But instead I’ll just point you over to Her Bad Mother who manages to say it without the long string of profanities I’d probably resort [...]

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