Archive for December 2007

I got a question in an email from a woman who was being bullied by her doctor into consenting to circumcise her son. She wrote to me that she followed his advice and made an appointment to have her son circumcised. She wanted to cancel it but felt scared that they would have charges filed [...]

A woman I know told me once that her partner said that feminists need to be careful to not abandon their sons to patriarchy. I certainly agree, but I wondered what this man meant by ‘abandonment’. Because to me, as a mother of sons, their growing up feels to me like like being left behind. [...]

I saw this question recently: Do you just walk out for an afternoon and leave your husbad with the kids, and not think about the dirt on the floor, or diapers being washed, or that you haven’t changed your pants for three days?
YES!!!
Basically, that’s it. Isn’t that what your husband does? He just takes his [...]

My husband and son T-bop playing while we waited on S-bop’s choir concert to start. I didn’t get any good pics of S-bop; I thought I’d set my camera to zoom in but I’d set it to zoom away, aaaargh!!
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