Just Some Squares on the Couch

Thanks to a relatively bland Ghost Hunters and a kind of eh, but sad episode of Law & Order, I am done making squares for the Kool-aid afghan and they are all stacked in two piles.
It will not be an enormous afghan, but it will be wild and I cannot believe that I did everything [...]

A Post Perhaps Too Meta

Two things before we get started.  1.  I swear, Katie, I am not stalking your baby, but I’ll admit that I do have this fantasy in which your baby and Bekah’s baby get together and I get to watch and laugh like an idiot.  2. Up front I’m just going to say that using babies [...]

Putting Men Between a Rock and a Hard Place

So, I’ve been mulling over the exchange between Say Uncle and KAG about the new hair salon designed for [straight] men, Gentlemen’s Top Cuts.  I like both of them and I find that KAG has a homey kind of feminism that appeals to me, so when Uncle starts throwing around accusations of misandrist behavior on [...]

“But Aunt B., I Don’t Want to Put on Good Music and Dance Around My Office!”

Tough.
Good lord, people.
Go over, shut your office door, come back around here and press play on these puppies.
“No, I hate old blues. No, don’t make me listen to old blues!”
Look, we can ease into it.
We’ll start with Zeppelin. See, that wasn’t so bad. It was even kind of fun, wasn’t it?
Or the [...]

We’re Not Family, So Don’t Call Me Sister

Over at Slate.com, they’re talking about race and gender and such on their blog The XX Factor and Melinda Henneberger, in her entry, is wondering why some black women reject this notion of sisterhood with white women.
Anyway, what Donna said was, you know, women don’t vote as a block because we never had to go [...]

Why Didn’t I Think of this Sooner?! Why Didn’t Any of You Think of This?

Someone totally needs to send Campfield a crochet cooter so that he can practice monitoring it, so that, should the day come when the state Republicans get all their repressive woman-hating legislation passed, he’ll be ready.

I Had to Clean My Own Tub, Sadly

Sometimes, I envy people who like housework.  I, myself, hate it and yet it doesn’t go away just because you hate it.  I wish I could train the cats to do it.

Werman

Tiny Pasture reminds me of a question that cannot be asked enough:
Since ‘man’ is historically gender neutral, and it’s only because the werman have decided that they represent all of mankind that we associate ‘man’ with only the wermen, how is further retreating from “man” a better strategy than just calling the wermen wermen?  Why [...]

One Reason Why Marriage is Not the Solution to All Our Social Ills

Rachel’s post today has haunted me all evening.

Here’s My Question

I know the Southern Baptist Church doesn’t have the same level of hierarchy as other denominations, but when the Convention decided that women couldn’t be ministers, that was the end of it. Baptist churches can have women ministers, but then they don’t get to be Southern Baptist.
So, to say that you can’t have some [...]

I’m Beginning to Suspect that the Tennessee Legislature Thinks Women are Just Naturally Lying Liars who Lie

Via Whites Creek Journal, we learn that, on Tuesday, a state house subcommittee will be discussing this nasty piece of legislation, which would require that all babies have DNA tests to prove who their fathers are before the state will list a father on a birth certificate.
It’s an adventure to live in a state in [...]

Good Work if You Can Get It

I went over to see the College Professor yesterday and she was telling me the craziest story, about how the woman who used to be the English Department secretary when I was there has gone on to write a book and become a famous Christian self-help author.  We went to look at her book’s website [...]

I Guess I Need a Barbed Wire Fence

Every once in a while you read a comment about how men have to have sex or they will die, die, die and, if we don’t let them fuck us whenever they want, regardless of our desire for them, it serves us right if they kill us and you think, “Wow, damn, is it really [...]

This Explains So Much

This week, after Rep. Rob Briley made a heartfelt apology for his well-publicized drunken behavior, Rep. Gary Moore, the straightforward Joelton firefighter, made the excellent point that everyone battles secret demons. But the way he made it was hilarious:
“Some of us are alcoholics,” Moore said. “Some of us are thieves. Some of us are adulterers. [...]

Which Would Be Worse?

Being the model who had to get and keep an erection while posing for the vasectomy brochure or being the fluffer of the model who had to get and keep an erection while posing for the vasectomy brochure?
I can’t decide.
Both, it seems to me, have a monumental task.
Also, nothing tickles me more than seeing Say [...]

Illegal Immigration and the Patriarchy

I wanted to get back to the exchange in the Ag Committee meeting from Tuesday.  But I still don’t know how to wrap my head around it.  There’s a lot going on here and all pieces seem important.  I don’t know, though, how they fit together.
The Pieces
Agriculture in the South has revolved around a few [...]

Apparently, Our Great State Tragedy is that All the People With Work Ethics were Aborted

Y’all, I have an anonymous source!  Well, I already kind of had an anonymous source in Say Uncle in that I don’t know who he is and he keeps me informed about stupid dog legislation.
But this anonymous source is different in that I have no idea who he or she is, nor even what I [...]

Can’t We Just All Accept that Campfield Genuinely Cares?

I read this post from Brownfemipower last night before reading this post from Campfied today. Kind of makes for one of those “aha” moments, doesn’t it?
Anyway, it did for me. Just who, exactly, is Campfield comparing to slave owners and Nazis?
Women who need abortions.
I often joke, but I’ve got to tell you, sometimes [...]

As a Favor to Me, Do This Favor For Ben

Women, I swear that I will never ask you to do anything like this again, but as a favor to me, please tell Ben about your experiences in math class.  Ben, if we do this for you, you have to promise a.) to spend some time perusing this blog and b.) listening to women when [...]

Oh, Right-Wing Blogosphere, How You Make Me Look Like a Genius!

Just last night, I was mulling over and trying to suss out for myself what exactly is going on with men, between men, over the bodies of raped women.  And this morning, I awake to a conservative blogosphere full of outrage over reports of a paper by Tal Nitzan that seems to argue that Israeli [...]

The Spears Girls

As you probably heard by now, Britney Spears’s little sister and star of Zoey 101, Jamie Lynn Spears is pregnant.  GoldnI can give you the run-down.
I go back and forth about the Spears family and whether they’re appropriate fodder for discussion.  I mean, to me, it’s obvious that Brittney is deeply screwed up in a [...]

Twilight Sleep & Childbirth and Feminism

So, the most famous healthcare blogger in town and I went to see Ricki Lake’s documentary “The Business of Being Born.”  It was awesome and made midwives seem like the most cool women on the face of the planet.  We got to watch a lot of natural childbirths, which, for those of you unfamiliar with [...]

If There’s Any Lesson to Be Drawn from This, I Guess It’s that You Don’t Stand Between a Man’s Wife and His Biscuit

I have to call time-out on my boycott of all things WKRN, because I think it’s very important that we talk about the implications of this story.
In case you’re also boycotting WKRN, let me sum it up for you: They’re doing a story about the day laborers who stand outside the Jack in the Box [...]

In Which I Yet Again Have to Explain Things to People Who Can Read

Via Tiny Pasture, we learn that Martin Kennedy might want to read the studies he’s drawing conclusions from before he draws conclusions from them. (Sorry, Martin. You know I love you, but I can’t let this nonsense stand.)
Kennedy says:
So, women are more likely to report violence against them and less likely to kill [...]

Oh, Boy(s)–A contest

Today, Mark Rose says “Feminists ostracize masculinity in men while at the same time trying to make themselves appear more masculine.”
Lord knows, the evidence of my trying to make myself appear more masculine is all over this blog.  So, you know, I wondered maybe if I was just half-failing as a feminist.  Maybe, at least, [...]