Let’s distract ourselves from the anger about what happened in Newtown on Friday with some ladyblogging.
It happened to me: I don’t have a best friend. Anyone who has ever looked for new friends as an adult will relate to this. XOJane
Should lifestyle ladybloggers have to write about sex? XX Factor
Walking the line between racism and relativism. SkepChick
More angst about The Good Men Project. Feministe
RookieMag talks about faith and feminism. Aside: I love that young girls are talking about this stuff. Tavi is a jewel and thank goodness she’s there to show young girls that the world isn’t all sparkly vampires. RookieMag
Mean Girls of Capitol Hill. BuzzFeed
La Diva de La Gente: Remembering Jenni Rivera. Racialicious
Alan Turing was a mathematician and code-breaker during WWII who was convicted of homosexuality. Scientists are petitioning to have him posthumously pardoned. There is also a wonderful movie starring Derek Jacobi called Breaking the Code if you want to know more about this forgotten hero. The Mary Sue
What are you reading this week?
7 replies on “Dispatches from Ladyblogland: Be My Friend?”
Great roundup!
I really enjoyed the xojane article. This week, I texted a work friend I don’t see as often as I like that I had a secret plan to make her my BFF (because I do.) She liked this plan, and I’m kind of glad I told her :D
Oh, this is a nice collection. I almost wish I would be stuck in a dead end job so I’d have time to read every one of them.
The best friend xojane article and the rookie mag article on religion both got to me. I currently don’t have any close female friends aside from my sister, and we live an hour and a half away from each other. And as far as religion goes, I don’t think–and never have felt–that my faith is at odds with my feminism. On the contrary, I feel that they inform each other.
You know who should write about sex? People who want to write about sex. Women are capable of reading multiple sites if one doesn’t cover everything they’re interested in. The original post was ridiculous, and I’m glad Slate ripped it apart.
And OMG Mean Girls. Hilarious.
The XOJane article really got to me because there have been times that I’ve felt someone was a, if not a best friend, then a gogd friend, but they did not feel the same about me. That’s a heartbreaking thing to realize.
Also, someone in the comments mentioned that she’s watched her friends get showered with help and gifts before a wedding or a birth and while she’s happy for her friends getting support, she knew the same would not happen with her and she’d be doing everything herself. I could see the same thing happening with me.
You break my heart! But I know what you mean. I remember feeling the same way. Making friends is HARD!
Ah sorry. Just stirred up a lot of reflection. Seriously, making friends as an adult is so bloody difficult.
But I lol’d at the Mean Girls link.