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| A friend asked me how I keep up with so many blogs. I read a lot of Xanga's, and I read even more non-Xangas. There are people on Xanga that I can't give up reading, so I haven't shut this site down entirely so I can continue commenting. I post the occasional update here - the quick and dirty stuff - but most of my more thoughtful writing has a home elsewhere. If I could find a way to filter out the crap on Xanga the way I can filter out the crap in the blogosphere as a whole by using rss feeds, I would do it...in fact, I've started doing it, which is why I'm posting.
I use Bloglines. It's incredibly handy. All the sites I read that have an rss feed (and all Xangas, Livejournals, etc. do) get added as a subscription to my Bloglines. It updates when you update, so I don't have to click over to see if you've posted. My Bloglines tells me.
The beauty of using Bloglines is that I can read everyone from the same page, and I can enjoy my non-Xangan blogs with the same ease as I enjoy my Xangan blogs. It rocks.
I recommend it to anyone who's willing to discovery life outside of Xanga - and there is. A lot. If you want to keep your reading materials in one handy dandy spot, give it a try. It's easy peasy.
http://bloglines.com
There you go. :)
For those who are wondering, feithline.com is temporarily down. I'm at http://feithline.hysterix.org at the moment.
Love to all!
Feithy | | |
| If you're female and...
you can vote, thank a feminist.
you get paid as much as men doing the same job, thank a feminist.
you went to college instead of being expected to quit after high school so your brothers could go because "You'll just get married anyway", thank a feminist.
you can apply for any job, not just "women's work", thank a feminist.
you can get or give birth control information without going to jail, thank a feminist.
your doctor, lawyer, pastor judge or legislator is a woman, thank a feminist.
you play an organized sport, thank a feminist.
you can wear slacks without being excommunicated from your church or run out of town, thank a feminist.
your boss isn't allowed to pressure you to sleep with him, thank a feminist.
you get raped and the trial isn't about your hemline or your previous boyfriends, thank a feminist.
you start a small business and can get a loan using only your name and credit history, thank a feminist.
you are on trial and are allowed to testify in your own defense, thank a feminist.
you have the right to your own salary even if you are married or have a male relative, thank a feminist.
you get custody of your children following divorce or separation, thank a feminist.
you get a voice in the raising and care of your children instead of them being completely controlled by the husband/father, thank a feminist.
your husband beats you and it is illegal and the police stop him instead of lecturing you on better wifely behavior, thank a feminist.
you are granted a degree after attending college instead of a certificate of completion, thank a feminist.
you can breastfeed your baby discreetly in a public place and not be arrested, thank a feminist.
you marry and your civil human rights do not disappear into your husband's rights, thank a feminist.
you have the right to refuse sex with a diseased husband [or just "husband"], thank a feminist.
you have the right to keep your medical records confidential from the men in your family, thank a feminist.
you have the right to read the books you want, thank a feminist.
you can testify in court about crimes or wrongs your husband has committed, thank a feminist.
you can choose to be a mother or not a mother in your own time not at the dictates of a husband or rapist, thank a feminist.
you can look forward to a lifespan of 80 years instead of dying in your 20s from unlimited childbirth, thank a feminist.
you can see yourself as a full, adult human being instead of a minor who needs to be controlled by a man, thank a feminist.
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Do any of the above statements apply to you as a woman? Do these statements effect you if you are a man? How do men benefit from the gains made for women by feminist activism? How do they 'lose'? How are children effected?
Did any of the above statements resonate for you? Were you shocked by anything you read? Did any of the statements above act as a 'wake up' call for you, or were you aware of the rights women didn't have that they do now, thank to feminist activism?
I'm really interested in your answers.
Feith | | |
| How many of my readers are feminists or pro-feminist men? Define 'feminist'. Are you 'radical'? Do you know what 'third-wave feminism' is?
Discuss. :)
Feith | | |
| Does anyone know where FemmeDeLaCreme went??
:(
Feith | | |
| 1. What did you do in 2005 that you’d never done before?
Mushrooms. Stayed at a job I hated. Had eye surgery. Had a short erotic fiction piece published.
2. Did you keep your new year’s resolutions, and will you make more for next year?
No. I still smoke, dammit. I’m not making resolutions this year.
3. Did anyone close to you give birth?
No.
4. Did anyone close to you die?
No.
5. What countries did you visit?
I stayed in Canada.
6. What would you like to have in 2006 that you lacked in 2005?
More publication credits, more liquid assets, more time camping with Sultan, more adventure.
7. What dates from 2005 will remain etched upon your memory, and why?
January sucked. Sultan had to go to India for a funeral. I had a retinal detachment.
January/February. Surgery for detachment and subsequent recovery.
August - camping. Yay!!
September - joint bday party with Sultan.
8. What was your biggest achievement of the year?
Continued to work despite hating my job. I love my family more than I love my freedom.
9. What was your biggest failure?
That’s really personal, and I don’t wish to discuss it.
10. Did you suffer illness or injury?
Retinal detachment.
11. What was the best thing you bought?
Body pillows. DVD player. Powerbook G4.
12. Whose behavior merited celebration?
Sultan never ceases to be celebration worthy. My coven sisters.
13. Whose behavior made you appalled?
My elder kid’s paternal grandparents continue to be the bane of my existence. My ex-boyfriend invited his ex-lover and ongoing flame to his wedding. My ex-acquaintance allowed my kid free access to alcohol without my knowledge. My son has been arrested and charged with mischief under $5 000.
14. Where did most of your money go?
Survival. Replacing broken windows.
15. What did you get really, really, really excited about?
Camping. My Powerbook. Seeing again after weeks of not being able to. My coven. Writing. The L Word. Six Feet Under. The prospect of moving to India. My relationship with Sultan.
16. What song(s) will always remind you of 2005?
Calling All Angels - Jane Siberry
17. Compared to this time last year, are you:
- i. happier or sadder? more content.
- ii. thinner or fatter? fatter.
- iii. richer or poorer? richer.
18. What do you wish you’d done more of?
Camping. Writing. Magic.
19. What do you wish you’d done less of?
Surfing. Worrying. Parenting. (heh!)
20. How will you be spending Christmas?
With immediate family.
22. Did you fall in love in 2005?
Only more deeply so with Sultan and my life.
23. How many one-night stands?
None.
24. What was your favorite TV program?
The L Word. Six Feet Under
25. Do you hate anyone now that you didn’t hate this time last year?
Yup, though hate is too strong a word. I am disappointed in someone I thought highly of last year.
26. What was the best book you read?
Pronoia by Rob Breszny
27. What was your greatest musical discovery?
Aphex Twin. Autechre. Rediscovered Dead Can Dance.
28. What did you want and get?
Lap top.
29. What did you want and not get?
A home reno loan.
30. What was your favorite film of this year?
Crash.
31. What did you do on your birthday, and how old were you?
I turned 37. We hung out here and drank a lot of beer.
32. What one thing would have made your year immeasurably more satisfying?
A lot more writing.
33. How would you describe your personal fashion concept in 2005?
Whatever fits my ever expanding ass.
34. What kept you sane?
Coven. Sultan. Red wine.
35. Which celebrity/public figure did you fancy the most?
Um. No.
36. What political issue stirred you the most?
My lack of interest in politics.
37. Who did you miss?
My husband. R.I.P, Timbear. My daughters. Heather. Monika. Charlie. Rachel.
38. Who was the best new person you met?
Reacquainted myself with my Aunt Irene. Made some inroads with my parents, too. No ‘new’ people really.
39. Tell us a valuable life lesson you learned in 2005:
Your friends are good mirrors of who you are becoming.
40. Quote a song lyric that sums up your year:
“The closer I am in love to you, the closer I am to fine.”
Indigo Girls, Closer to Fine.
A less meme-y year in review is coming soon.
Feithy | | |
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