the latest from (anti)feminist

"Feminists" who actually attempt to justify the use of words like "whore" and "bitches" to deride other women. And they just don't get it. People who get angry when you call Paris Hilton a bitch aren't defending her, they're pissed that you're insulting any woman using a turn of phrase with a history of reducing women to objects - without awareness of that and in a way that you wouldn't also insult a man. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

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I am a little dazed and cranky today because we went to see Finding Neverland at like 11 last night.

I wish every parent and teacher would go see that movie and get what I got from that. That fantasy is important and useful, but it has to be acknowledged and shared. That you don't preserve or protect innocence by lying to kids or keeping them from reality. I felt really betrayed by the whole Santa thing, even. Didn't most kids? So why grow up and do it again? Why do it with abstinence-focused sex ed?

Ironically, I'm becoming more convinced that I might like having kid(s) the more I realize how stupidly many people who have or are responsible for kids think about them, as these icons of innocence. [Y'all parents and teachers on my f-list, this is not you I'm talking about; you're part of the solution.] I think I've come to recognize that the problem isn't kids, but parents and schooling, that we don't interact with kidlets as people.

This is probably going to work itself into a much longer blog post later. In the meantime, I'm curious how you think of children's "innocence" and protecting them from information.