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How My Mom Casually Taught Me to be a Feminist
It’s not hard for me to see how I became so demanding about my basic equal rights as a woman. The movies and TV shows that my mother surrounded me with as I grew up speaks volumes about the woman she is and feminist beliefs she taught me. My mother LOVES Mary Tyler Moore. Mary Tyler Moore (the show) was my mom’s favorite but the woman herself could do no wrong. I knew at a very young age that she was the first woman to wear pants on prime time television (one per episode until she started sneaking them in more often) on The Dick Van Dyke Show. I knew…
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It’s My Birthday and I’ll Whine If I Want To
I’m a totally reasonable person. I try not to get hung up on petty or trivial things. I take pride in the fact that I don’t really care what celebrities are wearing or who anyone is sleeping with. The things that tend to really upset me have more to do with civil rights, health care, violence, poverty, shit like that. Now having said ALL of that, I’m turning 40 next week and I fucking hate it. I hate it and I don’t want to and I am so totally going to approach this birthday kicking and screaming the whole way. Now I do realize that — and yes,…
