tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12368279231601210132024-02-08T14:11:04.428-05:00Foaming BitchAngry, youthful follies.Foamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13910364940454559494noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236827923160121013.post-62188764397492918882007-09-24T13:41:00.000-04:002007-09-24T13:43:05.623-04:00Not quite ChristmasI got a package in the mail today. I was hoping it was one of my eBay purchases (for example, the big-eyed vintage deer figurines I'm such a sucker for), but it was just a big bag of birth control pills.<br /><br />Such is life.Foamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13910364940454559494noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1236827923160121013.post-41087327504931526752007-08-21T16:03:00.001-04:002007-08-21T16:29:17.154-04:00Why am I here, anyway?This particular folly began when I was linked to Twisty's blog, <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/">I Blame the Patriarchy</a>. I'd been considering getting into feminist blogging for a little while, but this is really what did it. It was described to me as "the funniest blog ever"- and not because the linker appreciated Twisty's wit. It turns out that this person finds feminist blogs funny, because just blogging while feminist is "radical".<br />"You have to admit, though," I told them, "that there's something sick about being told we need to <a href="http://feministing.com/archives/006648.html">color our nipples</a>."<br />"That's not sick," I was told. "That's capitalism."<br />Okay, sure. Lesson learned: if it's capitalism, there's no way there's something wrong with it. At that point I ended the discussion. Should I have? I don't know.<br />There's a <span style="font-style: italic;">lot</span> I don't know. I'm under 20, only recently identifying as queer, and while I've called myself a feminist since the age of 14 (when I attended a summer camp at Oberlin college and found, joy of joys, a couple of magazines in the periodicals section of the library- bitch and Off Our Backs), I've only recently become vocal about it. And as a young hipster, I'm supposed to put up with the "ironic" normalization of things like porn and stripping. Not to mention those skeevy American Apperal ads. Gross.<br />So here I am. I'm not sure what it is I'm looking for from blogging- learning, I think. Maybe a place to post photos of my dog while complaining. Or maybe just some obscene e-mails from clueless folks who think I "just need to get laid". I look forward to all of these things (but maybe not so much the e-mails).<br />Let's get started, I guess.<br /><br />-Foamy<br /><br />P.S. As for Twisty, at first I wasn't too sure about her views. Do men <span style="font-style: italic;">really</span> hate me? I'm still not sure. I am pretty sure she's <a href="http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2007/06/13/the-post-on-marriage/">right about marriage</a>, though. And the more I read, the more I like her.Foamyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13910364940454559494noreply@blogger.com0