February 2012
19 posts
Learning
This is a long road we all take. Everyone learns new things whenever they’re ready to learn the lesson. I haven’t been fighting to learn from others or come to a compromise at all! I’ve been fighting to win, even when I started to realize I was wrong I didn’t concede or re-evaluate my stance. So, here I go.
Stubbornness and “sadness- begone! Let’s be...
Actually had to pull out my glasses. I tend to block them out equations. Much better.
The first time, I actually thought a bug was crawling around in my nasal region. And I was genuinely afraid that it was going to burrow into my brain. Now I think it’s all in my head. There can’t really have been over 5 bugs going up the same hole and getting stuck in the same place. Still. It’s Hell on my sanity.
What Do You Really Know About The Bible? →
Didn’t know as much as I thought. Passing grade.
Wonderwood Contributor!
So, I signed up to start writing articles for this website.
Except, I have absolutely no idea why to write about “locally”.
Modem
The thing that got me started on my search for answers was an Australian youtube cartoon on Noah’s arc. Since then, I cannot read the work of any atheist without it being in an Australian accent in my head.
Of Fathers, Men, and Boys →
This site is really great. Yes, I’m a feminist.. That doesn’t mean I hate men. I love men! They’re great. There needs to be a movement to teach men how to be men and still respect women. There needs to be GENDER EQUALITY! Not just elevating women above men because, oh, our foremothers were abused. I don’t buy that. Women need equal treatment, which is better treatment...
Sexism in Language (involving marriage/civil...
(read “Mr. and Mrs. Sexist”)
No mother wants to have a different last name from her child. It sucks. Trust me, I had a different last name than my own mother for about 8years (until my step-father adopted me). So, in hyphenating your last name with that of your husbands, you still have it right with your child, nearly. But, having two last names is just as unequal as having just...
A Small Note
“Women’s sexuality is fundamentally more fluid than men’s, permitting greater variability in its development and expression over the life course.”
I’m not sure if it is more that way for a woman than a man, but I agree that it can be applied to myself at the very least. The best phrase describing myself is “nonexclusivity in attractions.” So far, I have not enjoyed...
When Gay is a Choice →
I found this highly enlightening.
Feminism and the Giant Marriage Monster
(In this, I’ll use tradition as an all-encompassing word for the things I mean. It’s easier than typing out every little detail, especially since some of the things I am thinking about aren’t really relevant.) I don’t wish to adhere to traditions that I somehow crave. Unwillingly, I mourn the loss of my young fantasies of life after love. (Cue Cher videos.) Will I...
Mr. and Mrs. Sexist
This.
“Shuffling through some mail at work this morning, I glimpsed an envelope addressed in the archaic format “Mr. and Mrs. Husband’s First and Last Name”, as in, “Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Smith”. I cringed. I have always wondered where the woman goes when she gets married. Where is the woman in the way that envelope was addressed? The word...
I wanna go back to the generation when a guy had...
“I wanna go back to the generation when a guy had to get permission from the girl’s parents to ask her out.” Because women cannot make important or good decisions on their own. Women belong to their fathers until they belong to their husbands…
The Most Terrible Thing...
being born in Australia or New Zealand and not being able to appreciate how awesome your accent is.
January 2012
17 posts
Feminist Frequency →
chrisringeisen:
Looking for some opinions on this vlog.
Liking it so far. The only bad part about feminist blogs is that it seems like they blow a lot of things out of proportion. Take the Christmas songs. I’ll agree that most of the ones on her list are pretty terrible (not just in that we’ve all heard it 50billion times). However, the first one, All I Want for Christmas is You,...
A Bitter End to a Shitty Day
I think I’m coming down with something, too. Can’t tell if that’s because my family keeps getting sick or the hour and a half I spent in a cold building, soaked to the bone.
But my mother was there for me. And I missed being her child.
Master & A Hound - Gregory Alan Isakov It’s hard to be a loving person all the time.
Create Your Own Bluths →
I need this.
And then I got tea in the mail!
We accept the love we think we deserve..
Wallflower,
I haven’t forgotten you. It’s incredibly difficult to maintain affiliations when so far away. I miss you a lot. And even though we don’t really like phone calls, I think we should have one. There’s a lot going on in my life, it seems, but it’s nothing at all, as well. How can I be so busy with one thing? I feel like I left you out of a lot because of...
Year 19
We stayed up until 6:30am, fell asleep at his for 5hours, brushed our teeth! with new toothbrushes, bought damn cheap bottle of wine and some cheese, baked some amazing cheesey-mushroomy-spinach-pasta casserole, hung out with my family, played fun games that were frustrating with my younger brothers over-complication of rules, watched Young Frankenstein, chilled down with that wine alone and said...
December 2011
12 posts
Ladies & Gentlemen, I give you, the 2012...
Michelle Bachmann: "Don’t misunderstand. I am not here bashing people who are homosexuals, who are lesbians, who are bisexual, who are transgender. We need to have profound compassion for people who are dealing with the very real issue of sexual dysfunction in their life and sexual identity disorders.” (2004)
Ron Paul: "The rate of AIDS infection is on the increase again. From the gay point of view, the reasons seem quite sensible. First, these men don't really see a reason to live past their fifties. They are not married, they have no children, and their lives are centered on new sexual partners... because sex is the center of their lives, they want it to be as pleasurable as possible, which means unprotected sex. Third, they enjoy the attention & pity that comes with being sick." (1995 in a newsletter)
Rick Perry: "I'm not ashamed to admit that I'm a Christian, but you don't need to be in the pew every Sunday to know there's something wrong in this country when gays can serve openly in the military but our kids can't openly celebrate Christmas or pray in school. " (2011 in a campaign ad)
Mitt Romney: "I should tell my story. I'm also unemployed." (2011 while speaking to unemployed people in Florida. Romney's net worth is over $200 million.)
Newt Gingrich: "She's not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer." (1994, about his first wife)
Rick Santorum: "Is anyone saying same-sex couples can’t love each other? I love my children. I love my friends, my brother. Heck, I even love my mother-in-law. Should we call these relationships marriage, too?" (2008)
Michelle Bachmann: "Carbon dioxide is portrayed as harmful. But there isn't even one study that can be produced that shows that carbon dioxide is a harmful gas." (2009 during a debate)
Mitt Romney: "PETA is not happy that my dog likes fresh air." (2006, when questioned about driving 12 hours with his dog in a cage strapped to the top of his car)
If any of you remember the friend I was talking about who got married this past year, they’re having a baby! Which is weird. I know I’ve always said I want to have one, and before I turn 29.. but now that it’s not that far away, giving birth scares the shit out of me. And I can’t imagine being 27 and having a child now. I mean, good for them. They’re totally happy....
Vaillant explains defenses as the mental equivalent of a basic biological process. When we cut ourselves, for example, our blood clots—a swift and involuntary response that maintains homeostasis. Similarly, when we encounter a challenge large or small—a mother’s death or a broken shoelace—our defenses float us through the emotional swamp. And just as clotting can save us from bleeding to...
Take a Sad Song
Tonight my mother said to M that she was going to pack my Christmas ornaments away separately. No matter how bright the future looks, the thought of abandoning my mother leaves me with the deepest sense of dread and guilt. That coupled with my aunt on her deathbed has made me feel really depressed tonight. Change is in motion. It always is. In between consciousness and slumber, I can see the...
Slide - The Dresden Dolls
I remember Mr Baron gave us this assignment to.. do something with an animal.. Anyway, he asked what mine was, and I said “cockroach”. He didn’t even read the lyrics that I had changed (which was from the title song). Laughed, said he hadn’t seen that one before, and gave me an A without checking for any of the things on the rubric. I was disappointed because I really...
November 2011
7 posts
In the three leaps it takes to get from the Little Room to the main house I loose all body warmth. It takes half an hour to regain that level of comfort again.
Mother-Daughter
Let me just preface by saying.. I have always had an open, honest, and stable relationship with my mother..
Since my birthday in January and my give-it-all-you’ve-got relationship with Ge in February, my mother has slowly but surely been letting down walls of “parenthead”. It’s been an interesting process, to say the least. The things I now know about my grandparents...