Sunday, October 21, 2007
Dolly Blogging
On one of my favorite country music singers, the great Dolly Lama.
NPR had something that actually was, um, shall we say politically correct. And I mean correct in terms of my politics (and it was very pro-feminist) as opposed to the usual PC pablum of NPR. But alas, I'm so used to digging at NPR, I've forgotten what it was I wanted to praise them for. I guess Agnew was right about my ilk being Nattering Nabobs of Negativism.
Oh yes ... I remember: it was the discussion on To The Best Of Our Knowledge about motherhood (go figure ... it wasn't NPR but rather WPR). I wish they would have gone deeper into the political aspects of it, but it's good to finally break the ice around the cult of mommy-magic that is used to make so many women feel so guilty about what are really normal situations and emotions.
NPR had something that actually was, um, shall we say politically correct. And I mean correct in terms of my politics (and it was very pro-feminist) as opposed to the usual PC pablum of NPR. But alas, I'm so used to digging at NPR, I've forgotten what it was I wanted to praise them for. I guess Agnew was right about my ilk being Nattering Nabobs of Negativism.
Oh yes ... I remember: it was the discussion on To The Best Of Our Knowledge about motherhood (go figure ... it wasn't NPR but rather WPR). I wish they would have gone deeper into the political aspects of it, but it's good to finally break the ice around the cult of mommy-magic that is used to make so many women feel so guilty about what are really normal situations and emotions.
# posted by alberich @ 5:05 PM 
