<3 great dad is great, made my day

It's so hard. My 11 year old is dazed and reading everything else ever in an effort to forget how far away it is. I'm rereading the Dune series again.

Lulz, thanks, I am surprisingly boring these days, and commenting on blogs fills the void :D

I certainly don't try to tear down feminism, nor would I ever disparage someone who identifies as a feminist. Your definition of humanism is quite understandably broad, but I think that it offers a rational set of reasons for how to treat men, women, animals, the planet, everything that could serve as a set of…

Well said. Do you have resources about what intersectional feminism is/does? I've never heard the term.

I think you've used quite a bit of hyperbole to address my points.

I don't really understand what you are telling me. Did you understand that I don't identify as a feminist?

Again, I used the description of white middle class women from the article as a group that is perceived as "comprising feminism" and that might be offputtting. I mentioned a lack of awareness of what the power actually was in two ways. First, because comparatively, women here DO have rights and freedoms other women do…

Sure, call it feminism! I think the whole point of the article is that the word itself has become loaded. Is it still the best word to describe the movement for gender equality?

I think you misunderstood my usage of white middle class women. I mentioned that because the author seemed to point to many people's perceptions of "feminist" falling under that category, and thus feeling unable to identify with feminism. That resonates with me because I am actually NOT a white, middle-class woman,…

Very good point re: special treatment for women.

Thanks for your response. I appreciate what you are saying about safe spaces. I guess I feel that even if the safe space was there for me I wouldn't really be able to use it, because I don't live/work/play in an environment defined by that space. Instead, I have to make the spaces I am in safe. Not sure if that makes…

I was not arguing that women have equal rights yet. I brought up white women in the suburbs because I inferred from the article that many women perceive feminism to be that demographic, and as such it may not appeal to them. I am aware that humanist doesn't imply that I like everyone, but for me it offers a unique…

I am a female engineer with a PhD. I don't identify as a feminist, I am a humanist. And before somebody checks my privilege, I am also the first person in my family to earn a degree, and a single mom who used to be homeless, and a former teenage riot grrl.

HAH! +1

Tee hee.

What about Caity and Weaver? or Lindy and West? Or Neetzan and nevermind that one.

I can't speak to the body image issues, mine have always been nebulous and unfocused. Thinking I'm ugly, not right shaped, etc. I don't really stick out in any one way.

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HAH! He was great.