Lefty Parent

|

Living & parenting without the rule book

Posts Tagged ‘women are from venus’

The Politics of Taking, Keeping or Bestowing Your Name

Friday, March 11th, 2011

A piece on Yahoo, “Hyphenated married name fight heats up on Facebook” by Janelle Harris for CafeMom’s blog The Stir, caught my partner Sally’s attention. The piece invokes feminist principles including calling out patriarchy as the problem, but the political act that the author is marshaling her arguments for is in my world view a pretty tepid one, though in the author’s it may seem pretty radical. The other aspect of this piece that caught Sally’s attention were the 2000 plus comments at the time (now more than 3100) that in engendered, with a wide spectrum of opinions.

(more…)

Posted by Cooper Zale, in Context 12 Comments »

What Molly Has and Has Not

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Me and Molly at my 5th birthday party

Me and Molly at my 5th birthday party

Molly was the “girl next door” (actually across the street) in my life and, most significantly, my best friend from age three to seven. At the time I did not understand how important this relationship would be to me in shaping my adult life, even though I saw Molly only once after age eleven. As a parent, I have also seen how my son Eric benefited from a similar relationship with a girl who lived across the street and became his best friend for several years.

Molly and I were comrades of the soul. We played pretend astronauts and soldiers and created innumerable adventures together. We always had the spot next to each other at each other’s birthday parties, no matter how many other kids were there. There was nothing that divided us. (more…)

Posted by Cooper Zale, in Transcendence No Comments »