Remember the Ladies’ Handbook of Home Treatment? It’s baaaack! For Teh Portly Dyke, I present: “On The Threshold of Womanhood: Puberty, or Adolescence”. A careful explanation of a mother’s responsibility to guide and manage her daughter’s fragile pubertal state, so… Read More ›
Day: 2008-02-29
Friday Hoyden: Emma Thompson
Seeing as I finally caught up with Nanny McPhee this week, I was planning to give the accolade to the ridiculously talented Emma Thompson anyway, as I was reminded anew of her streak of iconoclasm. Then I saw a post… Read More ›
A bigot is dead
William F. Buckley, that is. I’m on the same page as most of the commentors over at Making Light, and this comment particularly summed it all up: I’m baffled by the backhanded complements of, “well, at least he was an… Read More ›
Feminism Friday and 52 acts
I’ve put up a post over at Finally, A Feminism 101 Blog on rape myths vs statistics and the psychology of victim-blaming. I’ve also decided what my 52 acts posts for the year are going to be: I’m going to… Read More ›
Feminist motherhood: a definition
Feminist motherhood: the radical notion that children are people. [After reading this, and this.]
Hoyden About Town 