Insulting comments on blogs are tempests in teapots. I responded to a post on Shapely Prose asserting that overweight girls who report feeling good about themselves are not, as some might claim, just saying that out of defiance or resignation. At first, I thought it was refreshing to come across a feminist blog. It’s been a [...]
Archive for June, 2009
Getting Out of the Way
Posted in Responses, tagged body image, cattiness, diets, fat acceptance, feminism on June 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Growing-up without God in America
Posted in Recollections, tagged atheism, new jersey, religion on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Am I so old that I should be looking on the past like it’s another country? Sometimes I pause and look around me and wonder where the America in which I grew up has gone. I was born in the mid-sixties which means that when I think of my childhood, I think of the seventies. [...]
Mother Approves!!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged body image, Brooke Shields, sex, sexuality, virginity on June 3, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Several times within the past few days the question of female sexuality has crossed my path and I thought it was worth taking a little time to think about this. Yesterday afternoon my mother said something very unexpected. “You know,” she said, “I think that you and your sister are the most sexually well adjusted women I [...]
