Barry’s BlueSky- Untitled May 7, 2024Deux Ex Machina, Suckers! Another #PoliCartoon (I consider religion political!) by me and @nadinescholtes.bsky.social
- Untitled May 7, 2024New ruling from the Board of Masculine Masculinity: Using your hands to pull your boots on is now effeminate. Real men use their teeth.
- Untitled May 7, 2024A genocide has been going on somewhere in the world every single year for the last twenty. Is culture supposed to come to a halt until tragedies stop happening? I'm furious at Israel, at Hamas, and at Biden, but Gaza isn't the Met Gala's fault.
- Untitled May 7, 2024I second this. An awesome, smart graphic novel that not enough people have read. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
- Untitled May 6, 2024What I find curious about this thread is that the image he's critiquing is much, much more interesting than any of the images he brings up as examples of good images. The "Lois and Clark" images in particular are blandness personified. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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Category Archives: Families structures, divorce, etc
If you want population growth, support alternative families
People who promote “traditional” marriage, and oppose official support for or recognition of other family forms, are often the same people who worry about the relatively low fertility rates in the US and other wealthy nations. The blog Demography Matters … Continue reading
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Party of Family Values
You know, California Assemb. Mike Duvall, R-Yorba Linda, shouldn’t be mocked and ridiculed for carrying on an affair with two different lobbyists. He should be ridiculed for talking about it with all the savoir-faire of a 14-year-old relating something he’d … Continue reading
Posted in Conservative zaniness, right-wingers, etc., Families structures, divorce, etc, Same-Sex Marriage
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Japanese Women Fight Back Against Domestic Violence
Found this good report on Al Jazeera English.
Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Feminism, sexism, etc, In the news
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Bottles, Breasts, and Mothering "Choices"
A few months after my boys were born I stumbled across a message board for twin moms, I really started to enjoy the tips and the sense of community that I gained from reading and posting on the site. One … Continue reading
Posted in Breastfeeding & Lactivism, Families structures, divorce, etc, Feminism, sexism, etc, Gender and the Body
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Ballgame on "Children do better with parents together"
Ballgame has a good point: The notion that “Children GENERALLY do better with parents together” could be taken to mean that, out of the 100 families described above, children from the 80 non-divorcing families end up being mentally and emotionally … Continue reading
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Penguins Are Gay Parents Too
I like reading this story and hoping that somewhere, perhaps in a better world than ours, Rick Warren’s head has exploded. A pair of gay penguins thrown out of their zoo colony for repeat- edly stealing eggs have been given … Continue reading
Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Mind-blowing Miscellania and other Neat Stuff
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Florida Adoption Ban Ruled Unconstitutional: "These Children Are Thriving," Says Judge
From Box Turtle Bulletin, some great news: Miami-Date Circuit Judge Cindy Lederman has declared Florida’s gay adoption ban unconstitutional, saying, ”It is clear that sexual orientation is not a predictor of a person’s ability to parent.” This ruling grants Frank Gill, a … Continue reading
Posted in Families structures, divorce, etc, Lesbian, Gay, Bi, Trans and Queer issues
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Fact-checking MRAs (episode 4,367 in a series)
MRA Robert Franklin writes: New Teen Violence Report is 468 Pages Long–but the Word ‘Father’ Is Nowhere to be Found […] The report is 468 pages long, and as far as I can tell, the word “father” is nowhere to … Continue reading
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I'm Back…Sorta Kinda!
Over the past 2 months I’ve been inundated with baby care. My life has revolved mainly around feeding and diapering 2 little ones, so needless to say I haven’t had much time to blog, but I promise I haven’t given … Continue reading
Posted in Baby & kid blogging, Families structures, divorce, etc
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