A bit on the origin of the word Cunt. (Video found via @laurendane on Tumblr).
Category: Society and…
The word Cunt
Renae
Nov 2
|18:19
Temporary marriage in Mexico City
Renae
Oct 12
|23:05
Here’s the article I read on the topic: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/12/notes101211.DTL&nl=fix. It looks like Mexico City is considering two year marriages for various great reasons. Damn I love that idea.
And I really love what the last paragraph says:
“And maybe, for a generation defined by nothing except instant gratification and relentless change, you have to learn to love in a new and committed way — first two years, then five, then ten — before you can truly appreciate the impossible gift of forever.”
I don’t know about the idea of an instant gratification generation. That’s always been widely enjoyed, just not internety ways. But learning to love, and learning to appreciate forever, day by day and year by year sounds like the best way to do things to me.
“But there’s only girl stuff…”
Renae
Aug 20
|13:16
Great article in reply to some New York Times freakout or another: http://saundramitchell.com/blog/2011/08/20/the-problem-is-not-the-books/.
I’ve stopped reading the big newspapers lamenting about how women are bad for books or books for women are bad for the world or whatever. I get the feeling they’re just ramping up publishing those things because they’ve figure female readers are the only people who will flock to talk about their newspaper if outraged, yet are unlikely to send a pipe bomb, or a lawsuit.
I am amazed by this whole “but there’s only stuff for girls” attitude. It pops up pretty regularly, in the most amazing places, phrased so you might miss the inherent wtf of the argument on first perusal. It’s everywhere from the complaints about breast cancer awareness getting more attention than prostate cancer to complaining about the selection of car seat covers in Target.
(Not that I think better prostate cancer awareness is a bad thing, but really, the solution to improve it isn’t to bitch about breast cancer awareness.)
Dogs and smurfs
Renae
Jul 11
|16:59
Important point boiled down to simple, easy to understand concepts: Dogs and Smurfs; Why women writers and stories about women are taken less seriously, by Max Barry
Gender roles for men
Renae
May 6
|05:53
Charlie Glickman has an excellent post on his blog about gender roles for men: http://www.charlieglickman.com/2011/05/the-performance-of-masculinty/
It gives some great insight into how harmful for men, even heterosexual cisgender men, gender roles can be. In the end, strong “rules” about sexuality and gender hurt everyone. Yeah, the rules hurt some groups more than others, but in the end, they hurt everyone at least some.