Archive for December, 2009

December Mix: Homeward Bound, & Everywhere

  • December 21st, 2009
  • Posted in Music

Sound Cloud Link: http://soundcloud.com/enbrown/sets/homeward-bound-everywhere Tracklist below the cut[ READ MORE ]

Communes!

(In Which I Declare What I Could Have Said A Lot Less Complicatedly As An 8th-Grader Who Idolized Hippies …) It started with reading this Sandra Tsing Loh article in The Atlantic, I think. Loh notes that today’s “creative class” mother – with her flexible, creative job; her city life; her egalitarian marriage and child-rearing ideals [ READ MORE ]

“Orchid Children”

One of the most fascinating articles I have read in a long time: Most of us have genes that make us as hardy as dandelions: able to take root and survive almost anywhere. A few of us, however, are more like the orchid: fragile and fickle, but capable of blooming spectacularly if given greenhouse care. [ READ MORE ]

All just a little bit of history repeating …

One of my particular cultural irritants, as of late, has been what can be scapegoatedly pinned on Ayelet Waldman or more broadly described as the “bad mother” genre. What a strange symbol of our times, these women hemming and hawing over their perceived psychological transgressions against the pathos of motherhood, their defiant reclamation attempts in [ READ MORE ]

My Feminine Perspective

I could say a lot about Helen Rittlemeyer ‘s Doublethink piece on women’s Web sites and blogs, but I’m going to focus on her relatively minor criticism of gender skeptics and their lady-blogging: … liberal feminists like Kerry Howley, Amanda Marcotte, and Tracy Clark-Flory are gender skeptics who don’t believe that a “feminine perspective” exists. [ READ MORE ]

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