Archive for the 'Feminism' Category
Thoughts on space
Posted: Tuesday, February 8th, 2011 @ 4:24 pm in Feminism, Foofy, General, Parenthood | Comments Off
I’ve been reading some commentary on The Decline of Male Space, and have some loosely-connected thoughts about it:
The original article addresses several different types of spaces, without fully differentiating them: workplaces, public social spaces, home social spaces, home workspaces, personal solitary spaces.
Work moved out of the home in the Industrial Revolution, but [...]
I object to letting a writer so obviously disconnected from reality write guest posts on BoingBoing
Posted: Monday, January 24th, 2011 @ 5:55 pm in Christianity, Ew, gross!, Feminism, Foofy, Politics, Science | Comments Off
I read BoingBoing.net occasionally, ignoring the posts that are offensive to me as a Christian. But Richard Dawkins on the warpath against Christians is a bit much, especially when he is essentially arguing that Christian belief makes one mentally unfit for any professional career, even when superlatively qualified.
Science is impotent to prove [...]
A pause to ramble a while
Posted: Tuesday, January 4th, 2011 @ 2:45 pm in Christianity, Feminism, Foofy, General, Parenthood, Pregnancy, Projects | Comments Off
Today I’m quite tired, and probably coming down with something. TLG woke up all bright and happy at 4 am this morning, but I was awake then anyway–I’ve reached the phase where I’m starting to shift to the baby’s sleep schedule. The baby was kicking with gusto at 4 am too.
Last [...]
Radical Homemakers review
Posted: Monday, August 23rd, 2010 @ 6:41 pm in Christianity, Feminism, General, Politics | Comments Off
I just finished reading Radical Homemakers, by Shannon Hayes, and I thought it was mostly good. She lays out how American households transformed from centers of production to centers of consumption, gives the currently ascendant corporatism a sound thrashing, and presents what she has learned from families making the transition back to a home-centered [...]
Endangered fish in a barrel
Posted: Saturday, May 1st, 2010 @ 9:08 pm in Feminism, Foofy, General, Parenthood, Politics, Science | Comments Off
I haven’t picked on feminists on my blog lately, it got to be too easy, and therefore boring. But I still pick up the Minnesota Women’s Press (now printed monthly) most of the time. The most recent issue was about What Women Want. The really interesting thing about this issue is the [...]
Generational Musings
Posted: Saturday, February 21st, 2009 @ 10:13 am in Feminism, Foofy, General, Politics, Pregnancy, Science | Comments Off
Joy had a long, and good, post about being in Generation X. I could relate to much of it, though not all. Part of the reason, I think, is parental age: my dad is much too old to be a Boomer, and my mother falls right on the edge. So they [...]
Whoa
Posted: Wednesday, October 1st, 2008 @ 9:29 am in Christianity, Feminism, General, Parenthood, Politics | Comments Off
I read a lot of natural childbirth-midwifery-attachment parenting blogs, because I see a lot of good in those philosophies. I forget sometimes, though, that most of the people that are into that stuff are far to the left politically. (I joke to myself that I’m so far to the right that I came [...]
Busy Sunday
Posted: Monday, September 24th, 2007 @ 8:01 am in Christianity, Feminism, Foofy, General, Parenthood | Comments Off
Yesterday was a good day, just too much going on. OLC had to take her naps on the run, and she was really worn out by the end of the day. I’m going to take a slower pace today, for both of us. Sometimes I think about making Monday my Sabbath day.
We [...]
Misc.
Posted: Tuesday, September 19th, 2006 @ 10:49 am in Feminism, Foofy, General, Politics, Pregnancy, Projects | Comments Off
I’ve been following the Althouse – Feministing battle of the boobs a little, and it’s been fun to watch Althouse lay down the I-was-a-feminist-before-you-were-even-in-diapers smack. It is ridiculous for a feminist blogger to stand in a look-at-my-boobs pose right in front of Bill Clinton in a group picture. I haven’t kept up with [...]
Happy at Home
Posted: Monday, September 4th, 2006 @ 12:32 pm in Feminism, General | Comments Off
From Homeliving Helper on the joy of homemaking:
Homemakers are often described by career women as Stepford wives, as someone put it “popping out children and being subservient to their husbands”. Feminist career women get all upset when someone even hints that may be, women belong at home, yet they consider it normal to insult their [...]