The Hiatus

IT'S BRITNEY BITCH!

Well no it's not...but after not writing here for a while I'm hoping my unlikely comeback is just as successful and I regain control over my assets and guardianship of my children...OK?!?! I've had many comments from people who said they miss reading the blog and how much they enjoyed it.  So I've had a renewed spirit.  I need to get the wheel's a spinning on new blog posts, so it'll probably just be article links to start off.  Get ready!!!

Drag Kings in Afghanistan

Interesting article.  I am intrigued looking at how different cultures use cross-dressing, especially when it is to fulfill a societal advantage (i.e. sonless families need son to raise social status) and not in connection with one's sexuality (as we are trained to react in the US). I remember someone telling me that in some part of the world it's not unusual for families without daughters to pick a son to dress up as a girl and help his mother out around the house...but I cannot remember where this happened.  I'm pretty sure Kate was the one telling me this story so she should post an article about that!

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/21/world/asia/21gender.html?_r=1&pagewanted=1&emc=eta1

UGGGHHHHHH

http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/09/14/how-republicans-party/

Dressing up like a confederate soldier for nerdy history reasons...um ok.  Dressing up people whose ancestors were slaves as slaves...NOT OK!  Get it together people!

Happy Anniversary, 19th Amendment!

I'm a day late, but the day that people w/ uteruses were identified as actual, you know, citizens, is worth commemorating.

Sample dialogue

Me: Hey, the last book in a trilogy I'm totally obsessed with is going to come out while I'm visiting you*. Is there a bookstore in town where I can pick it up?

My sister (doubtfully): Well, there's a Christian bookstore...

Me: [Hyperventilating]

* In a small town in Wyoming.

Don't Ask Don't Tell

I've been meaning to post this for a while, and got distracted.  I found this link through sociological images/jezebel and I was quite disturbed.  What I find most intriguing is that the comic talks about homosexuality as an order that simply wasn't followed.  The person's sexuality is stripped of anything personal, and discussed as if they had not followed a minor order.  They talk so objectively and calmly about the offense, yet the consequences are quite dire.  This comic is truly disturbing...and disturbingly recent

http://www.ep.tc/problems/38/cvr.html

Breaking news: Julia's Hunger Games obsession validated in NY Times

See, totally respectable!

(Ok, I wasn't actually feeling anxious about it. But the story's illustration is exactly how I fear I'm going to be as a mother.)