Movienotes: Brave...
Teenage Merida and her mother Elinor (via) To escape the heat on Saturday, Hanna and I went to the movies and saw Brave (Disney and Pixar, 2012) which most of you have probably heard much of a muchness about since it was released back in June. There’s been tons of insightful, critical...Wee Ones + Online Society: Discuss...
Posted by annajcook in Discussion Time on 06 14th, 2012 | 6 Comments
are children part of the (virtual) public commons? should they be?
There’s been some discussion recently about Facebook making it possible for people under the age of thirteen to open accounts and create personal profiles at the popular social networking site. Predictably, many people have Strong...
Let’s Talk Images: Motorcross Brea...
Posted by annajcook in Let's Talk Images on 02 2nd, 2012 | 19 Comments
Back in early January, I saw this image of Motorcross racer LeClan McMillan breastfeeding on the blog blue milk, and posted it to my Tumblr blog.
Image credit: LeClan McMillan with her baby (via Annie Urban). (via bluemilk.wordpress.com)
Image Description: The color photograph depicts a motorcross cyclist...
The Trap of Poor Framing: Teenagers, Sex...
Posted by annajcook in Feminist Food for Thought on 04 4th, 2011 | 31 Comments
Last Friday, Hanna tipped me off to this advice column question posted at The Guardian.
My 16-year-old son has disappeared into the bathroom several times with a laptop for extended periods of time. I know he has been looking at pornographic websites and, when asked, he freely admits it, putting it...
On Ambition and Man-bition: A Guest Post...
Posted by The Harpies in Thoughts on 01 25th, 2011 | 15 Comments
Is a rich husband better than a career?
Those, my fellow harpies, were the words that greeted me at the supermarket checkout stand last week, courtesy of the always classy Grazia magazine. It must say something about just how reactionary our society can be that I was only minimally shocked.
Well, it...
Breastfeeding: Damned If You Do, Damned ...
Posted by Marie Anelle in Thoughts on 01 5th, 2011 | 43 Comments
If there was something that I could have been better warned about when I had #1, it was what I like to affectionately call the “Boob War”. It what appears to be a no-win situation on either side of the debates, however you choose to feed your infant will indicate how society will try to...
Radical!...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 03 4th, 2010 | 92 Comments
Last night the Discovery Health Channel aired a special on “Radical Parenting,” as part of Baby Week. The schedule says,
This one hour special explores several different families extreme forms of parenting. From attachment parenting to raising a child gender neutral to raising child without...
Scary because she’s black?...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 02 3rd, 2010 | 35 Comments
I just watched this video on That Black Girl Site and wanted to share it with you. In the video, a mother records her daughter retelling a story that happened to her on the school playground; some white girls ran away from her and told her they fear her because she’s black. Marley, the black girl,...
Parents of America, you are on notice!...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 01 29th, 2010 | 38 Comments
Forget hiding in an attic for two years and dying of typhus at Bergen Belsen – what’s really offensive about Anne Frank’s experience was her awareness of her vagina. Some unfit asshole in Culpepper County, Virginia became scandalized by Frank’s mention of her genitalia in The...
All Over But The Shouting...
Posted by BeckySharper in Thoughts on 10 23rd, 2009 | 21 Comments
The most e-mailed article on the New York Times website yesterday was “For Some Parents, Shouting is the New Spanking”. Like most trend pieces in the Thursday Style section, it’s heavy on the generalization and aimed squarely at the Times‘s readership of affluent white helicopter...
What? Why????...
Posted by SarahMC in Thoughts on 09 8th, 2009 | 22 Comments
Thinking of talking to your kids about sex but too scared to say “penis” or “vagina?” Nervous as you may be, fret not. You don’t have to talk about the parts. That’s what Obama’s Department of Health and Human Services wants you to know. Check out this ridiculous,...