Posts Tagged by Culture

What It Means To Be Fat

December 21, 2011 Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance
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(Photo from Fat From the Side, where user marfmellow says, “I can’t lie though, my cherubic cheeks are pretty lovely.”) I ended my post Why Use The Word Fat talking about how we basically know what the word fat physically indicates. Beyond the physical, what else does being fat indicate? If you are living in this culture, whether you live in a fat body or not, you’ve probably got a good idea what being fat means. It’s used as… Keep Reading

Revisiting Gender

September 2, 2011 Posted by Issa under Parenting, Think About It
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Before Dylan was born, I posted a heartfelt look at my thoughts about Gender and My Baby. So far that’s my post with the most comments, so it brought out a lot of thoughts in other people, too. Now that Dylan is actually here, I want to talk about what has changed in my mind and what has stayed the same. The easy part to talk about is the clothes: I had a small panic… Keep Reading

Amish

August 15, 2011 Posted by Issa under Think About It
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This post originally appeared on March 20th, 2009 on my now-defunct blog Right to Bleed and appears here in a slightly modified form. Reading about different cultures is often interesting to me, and while the Amish are right here in the United States they definitely qualify as a different culture. When I have escapist fantasies (tropical-island, alone-in-the-mountains) sometimes I imagine myself running away to be an Amish person (assuming that would even be possible). The… Keep Reading

Using Me As A Pacifier

August 3, 2011 Posted by Issa under Parenting
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“He’s just using you as a pacifier.” What a stupid sentence. I actually heard this from the first pediatrician we went to. He said I only had to let Dylan feed 15-20 minutes on a side, because after that he was only using me as a pacifier. I know what he means. When Dylan is sleepy, he’ll suck for about 10 minutes in a deep “I’m getting food from this” way. Then he’ll mostly fall asleep… Keep Reading

Culture Dust

April 1, 2011 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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(Photo credit BinaryApe) Dust is everywhere. We don’t see it, yet if you look on a shelf where things don’t get moved around much, there’s a layer of dust that has settled into the untouched spaces. If you happen to see a ray of light shining through a window in front of you, you think, “Holy shit! What is all that stuff floating there?” When this happens, it amuses me to look around suspiciously at… Keep Reading

Gender and My Baby

March 7, 2011 Posted by Issa under Parenting, Think About It
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The first family I nannied for had a 3 year old son and an 8 month old daughter when I started. The mom and I had a long conversation one day where she explained that there were innate differences between boys and girls. She said she treated both kids the same, yet there were key differences between them based on gender. I was just getting started learning about childhood development at the time, and I’m… Keep Reading

More Endgame

July 1, 2010 Posted by Issa under Mother Culture
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Prior to picking up either of these books, I was already convinced. Jensen says “Civilization is not and can never be sustainable…” and “Our way of living is based on and requires…persistent and widespread violence,” and “Civilization is not redeemable. This culture will not undergo any sort of voluntary transformation to a sane and sustainable way of living…” and I already agree. He makes bold claims such as “The only sustainable level of technology is the stone age,” and I don’t immediately jump to argue. Keep Reading

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