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Well, it’s been a week of plague and travel in my household. Later today, I will talk about the angel in a conservative blogger’s house, and how he imprisons women through praise. Here are this week’s links: Last Sunday I offered some continuing thoughts on my essay: How To Talk Like a Feminist (If You’re …
Ok, we don’t have cholera. My wife has pneumonia and a strained ribcage from coughing. I have bronchitis. Nico has conjunctivitis and perhaps a chest infection. We’re all on antibiotics. Ellie is fine but, between you and me, kind of hard to take sometimes with her constant questioning. We know this is what four-year-olds are …
My four-year-old daughter was standing in her room yesterday morning, wearing only a pair of pants, squeezing her chest, and saying, “I wish these were bigger.” My first response was panic. My second response was to pass the buck, “Go talk to your mom about that,” I said. She ignored me and said again,” I …
Jonathan Turley brings us another example of what I call the Cult of Compliance: In this article and attached video, police throw a woman into a concrete bench, breaking several bones in her face. A lawsuit has followed. They arrested Cassandra Feuerstein in Skokie after finding her asleep at the wheel, and charged her with drunk driving. …
One of my concerns with the language about disability and violence, whether domestic, in institutions, or in public, is an easy tendency to link the violent outcome to the disability, rather than focusing on the perpetrator of the violence. Such rhetoric doesn’t tend, or in I think intend, to excuse the violence, but it does …
This is Down Syndrome Awareness month. I will have more to say about awareness as the month goes on, as I’m thinking hard about how to defend the utility of “awareness.” The real problem is that it is, by grammatical nature, passive. To be aware. A lot of parents, like me, are skeptical about the …
Yesterday, my daughter said: “Daddy, let’s make a rocket ship!” She had her eye on a cardboard box that used to hold puzzles. I said, “Let’s go!” Ok, well, first I said, “I have to finish re-arranging my bedroom so I have a place to sleep tonight,” then I did just that, then I said …
The Shriver Report, a new online nonprofit publication, has published a new essay of mine: How To Talk Like a Feminist (If you’re a guy). Here’s more about The Shriver Report: They are focused on women’s issues, the changing nature of the gender landscape, and want to provide a: comprehensive, multidisciplinary look at how American …
Good morning! Last week I wrote about disability, gender, family norms, wiping bottoms, the 19th century, and noodles. Later today I’ll write more about my new essay on “How to Talk Like a Feminist (If You’re a Guy).” Please comment here with stories I should cover next week! Sunday – Ricky Gervais and the “Angel/Retard …
I am currently writing a talk about work/life integration in an age of changing gender norms in the family. In other words, my wife and I both work, we both spend as much time as possible with the kids, but because my schedule is more flexible and my wife travels, I do a lot of …