Posts Tagged by Culture
We’re All Criminals Here
| January 13, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Think About It |
A couple of weeks ago while driving, I came to an intersection with two dedicated left turn lanes – that is, I and the other drivers in my lane and the one next to us could turn left if and only if a left green arrow came on, and once we were in this lane there was no easy way out except to turn left. Something was wrong with the signal and the left arrow… Keep Reading
The Occupy Movement as Cultural Resistance
| January 6, 2012 | Posted by Issa under Mother Culture |
John Duffy has written a post at Nature Bats Last called Occupy: Embrace what you are! I found the whole post interesting, as well as some of the comments. He starts out talking about how both the expected opponents and the presumed supporters have taken every cheap opportunity to criticize the Occupy Movement, citing their directionlessness, joblessness, and soaplessness, whether or not these things are true or even make any sense. The critics and even some people within… Keep Reading
What It Means To Be Fat
| December 21, 2011 | Posted by Issa under Fat Acceptance |
(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 |
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 |
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 |
“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 |
(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
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