Thanks to ahunt for pointing me to Gangly Thoughts, and to a post about hitting that Certain Age where the invisible sign around one’s neck that reads ATTENTION ALL MEN: PLEASE COMMENT ON WHETHER YOU FIND ME FUCKABLE starts to get a little faded and weather-worn. Part of me is really enjoying this slide into [...]
I couldn’t bring myself to waste time reading through a “but if I shave my legs are you mean jealous ugly dykes going to take away my feminist membership card?” post, but Mighty Ponygirl has a stronger stomach than I do (and more patience). Bluntly, if you’re wearing Raspberry Shimmer Lipgloss or putting on 5″ [...]
Dizzy writes an excellent post about dealing with “friends” (sadly, she left out the quotes) who think it’s their job to lecture us girls on how we shouldn’t be all angry and feminist-y, and how mean we are to men, and how if we were really, truly strong women we wouldn’t need all that strident [...]
Chris Clarke writes about scars. It’s a good read. I think that to most people, scars bring pain to mind. They make me think of recovering from pain. Oddly, I suppose, I only think about pain (or recovery) when I think of the scars I got from illness–most of mine are from injury, and I [...]
While the New York Times patiently (and probably futilely) points out that men’s and women’s reports of their number of sex partners doesn’t match, John Scalzi has a much more elegant explanation. Less amusing is the possibility that women aren’t counting nonconsensual sexual encounters, and men are. But this probably isn’t skewing the numbers to [...]
When the cops came to tell me about my parents being dead, I thought they were being hostile because they thought I killed my parents, or maybe they pulled my psych history and figured I would give them trouble. I didn’t know till later that they were jealous. Even though I hadn’t met Khadija yet, [...]
Emily Bazelon’s article about girls and autism reminds me of eating at a greasy-spoon diner when you’re out in the middle of nowhere: it’s not that it’s particularly good, but there’s not a lot of alternatives. Bazelton does (briefly) note that girls may go undiagnosed until later in life than boys because they are better [...]
Hot, humid and flat. It’s funny that people always think the snow and ice are the bad part of Midwest weather, but really, it’s the summers that truly drive people to live in California. The taxi driver who took me to the airport told me that Tulsa has a new riverwalk, like San Antonio, that’s [...]