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[moominmolly]

The Momification of Michelle Obama. An article worth reading just on its own merits, regarding her curiously retro position given her qualifications... but really, I'm mostly posting this so that I can type the word "momification" a few more times.

MOMIFICATION.

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[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

Dude. Now I want to be Momified.

That just sounds...cool.

[chaiya.livejournal.com]

Is it easier or harder to be Moomified?!?

[kungfoogirl.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure if it's harder or easier, but I'll bet it's a lot more fun.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

Wow. I just read the piece and I really enjoyed it. And egads does it remind me of the ways that feminism has not advanced, not nearly as much as I want it to have, or as much as sometimes I think it has.

[desiringsubject.livejournal.com]

That being said, I did get to see one of my own personal goals of feminism realized recently: I saw a (to my limited perception) man and a woman on a tandem--with the woman in front. It was literally the first time I'd ever seen that.

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

*giggle* that's the way D and I always ride, and I admit it does get us some interested glances. :)

[kmhoofnagle.livejournal.com]

We don't have a tandem yet, but the fuck if I would always want to look at Reed's ass. I mean really. He can see over me. How fair is that?

[ocschwar.livejournal.com]

Emily's delicate womanly nerves can't handle the swaying of a tandem if she isn't steering it.

So, she has the helm, and I have the boiler. Well, also because I'm better at repositioning my ballast to stabilize the bike.

[dancingwolfgrrl.livejournal.com]

I admit that I am madly in love with the brilliance of that image. Stifling expectations, anyone?

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

Yes, exactly. Me too.

[fengshui.livejournal.com]

I thought the last quarter of that article was particularly interesting. It shows how we still have a lot of inequality in our gender roles, even when intelligent people strive to fight against it.

[kmhoofnagle.livejournal.com]

I think the pendulum has swung and is still swinging in the correct direction. While I feel great sympathy for the stress Michelle Obama is about to undergo, I suspect she's going to be better at this game than Hillary. She will hardly be a nonentity in this administration.

[kcatalyst.livejournal.com]

Wow, that was hard to read. My mom was really angry with her speech at the convention, for basically this issue. I've been having a lot of trouble dealing with that and have been puzzled as to why. Realized while reading this that I deeply need Michelle's choice to become a momified first lady to be "ok" in some abstract feminist way, since it's so similar to the choice that trom has made for me. I'm not sure what to do with the realization now that I have it, though. Besides focus on not crying at work. (Yes, still at work, I'll be home late again tonight. And I don't even have a country to save.)

[moominmolly.livejournal.com]

I'm still thinking about this comment and I don't have a lot to add to it still and I'm sorry. I'd just been thinking, hm, this is interesting: I need for her choice to be okay, but I also need for it to have been a choice, and because of the curious position of her husband it wasn't clear to me that it really was as much as it would be for other women, and I found that interesting. Ultimately, though, my feelings about the whole thing are so unresolved that I posted it without real comment. I'm sorry that me doing that stirred up some really rough things for you. :/

[gravitrue.livejournal.com]

Nanobama is cool, too.

'Nanobamas' Fuse Art, Science, Technology and Politics

A University of Michigan professor has created 3-D portraits of the president-elect that are smaller than a grain of salt. He calls them "nanobamas."

http://www.newswise.com/images/uploads/2008/11/14/fullsize/nanobama.jpg