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By rebecca • 15 years ago

My feminist kid sister!

My younger sister just came home from a trip to Washington DC with her Confirmation class at temple. I’d been bothering her about it for weeks, mainly because I wanted to know what they were going to be lobbying for. Apparently they let the students choose when they got there, and my sister picked reproductive rights! The kids who were lobbying for repro rights heard speakers on abortion rights, comprehensive sex ed, and emergency contraception availability in hospitals before splitting off into smaller groups. (My sister picked comp. sex ed.)
And then, when I was explaining to my mother how no, you can’t actually just get an abortion in most states (citing waiting periods, consent laws, and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act), and she said “well, I’m pro-choice, but I don’t know about that partial-birth abortion…”…my sister and I teamed up to explain why the ban is a really bad thing (no health exception; anecdote that my sister heard from a speaker at the Hill about how if his wife hadn’t had an abortion to remove an anencephalic fetus, they wouldn’t have the three children they do today; anecdote from that I read on Feministe about a doctor who would rather have let a woman and her twin fetuses all die and keep their consciences clean than perform a selective reduction so that two of the three could live; why would anyone get an abortion that late unless they’d wanted the child and ...
By rebecca • 15 years ago

Thank You Thursdays: Good Guys

This is just a short thank you to some guys I know.
…to the guys who are comfortable enough in their straightness that they can hug and lean on other guys without needing to make homophobic remarks to make up for it.
…to the guy I worked with on a project for Gov/Politics where we had to represent the Republican side on same-sex marriage, and with whom I had many lovely conversations about what utter BS it was when we should have been planning.
…to my calculus teacher, who makes it clear that he doesn’t care about anyone’s sexual orientation or gender identity as long as they remember to take the derivative of the inside.
…to a certain friend of ...

This is just a short thank you to some guys I know.
…to the guys who are comfortable enough in their straightness that they can hug and lean on other guys without needing to make homophobic remarks ...
By rebecca • 15 years ago

Not a Baseball Mom

One of my co-bloggers at City of Ladies posted this today, and I thought it was so funny that I had to share. Turns out that Sarah Palin fails not only at government but also at being a down-home person…
“While giving a speech in Pennsylvania, [Palin] said, ‘…And I am thrilled to be here in the home state of the world champion Philadelphia Phillies.’ I’ll admit that this doesn’t look like a gaffe upon first glance. After all, the Phillies just won the World Series. It’s not like she mistakenly said that the Tampa Bay Rays won. However, she did make a mistake that caused the audience to boo her following her comment, specifically that she said it ...

One of my co-bloggers at City of Ladies posted this today, and I thought it was so funny that I had to share. Turns out that Sarah Palin fails not only at government but also at ...
By rebecca • 15 years ago

“Pro-America”

I blogged at City of Ladies about this pro-America meme that’s been circulating around the Republican party.
(I’ve fixed comments so you don’t have to be a member. Check out the blog, we update every other day or so.)

I blogged at City of Ladies about this pro-America meme that’s been circulating around the Republican party.
(I’ve fixed comments so you don’t have to be a member. Check out the blog, we update every other ...
By rebecca • 15 years ago

Unborn Mutant Ninja Babies

I blogged here about my trip to the doctor to get Accutane. It’s not easy, let me tell you.
(Why is the government obsessively committed to pregnancy prevention only when fetus-mutating drugs are involved?)

I blogged here about my trip to the doctor to get Accutane. It’s not easy, let me tell you.
(Why is the government obsessively committed to pregnancy prevention only when fetus-mutating drugs are involved?)
By rebecca • 15 years ago

New blog!

I just started a new co-operative blog with my friends! It’s called City of Ladies, after a Renaissance feminist text I just read for a research paper. Check it out here!
(I’ve made the inaugural post – it’s an analysis of a pro-Israel mailer I got in the mail.)

I just started a new co-operative blog with my friends! It’s called City of Ladies, after a Renaissance feminist text I just read for a research paper. Check it out here!
(I’ve made the inaugural post ...
By rebecca • 15 years ago

Teppanyaki/hibachi chefs

Went out to dinner at the teppanyaki restaurant* last night with my relatives visiting from abroad. (At a teppanyaki restaurant, the eating surface surrounds a large griddle, and the chef cooks your food in front of you.)
*Often called in the U.S. a hibachi restaurant or Japanese steakhouse.
Nowadays, teppanyaki is a mixture of cookery and performance art. The chef prepares the food, but also juggles utensils, tosses eggs with his spatula-thing, stacks rings of an onion into a volcano shape and sets it on fire, catches things in his hat or pocket, things like that. It’s really pretty neat.
But something I noticed this time: teppanyaki chefs* are exclusively male. The restaurant employs women, but they’re the ones who ...

Went out to dinner at the teppanyaki restaurant* last night with my relatives visiting from abroad. (At a teppanyaki restaurant, the eating surface surrounds a large griddle, and the chef cooks your food in front of you.)

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