But what is up with the costumes? All the female ones are some sexy nurse or maid ones and the boys are demons or monsters. I mean, standing there with my kid in the store I felt like I had to cover his eyes or something. Ever since Sarah Palin came along I feel extra sensitive to sexism issues. I don't know - all of it feels sort of out of our hands right now. What can we do?
This is true at my work. How interesting working in Labor & Delivery is. Because birth should be transformational, it should change our lives. And I watch women give away their power all the time allowing this big hospital system to tell them how it's done. It's as though there is a system in place from birth that is shaping us. Here is this thing that only women can do and it's THE thing - the thing that keeps our race going. And it's so important. And it is feminism that said "We don't have to feel pain, it's our right" - and yes, but how did pain free childbirth become powerless childbirth?
Damn, I wanted to be fun and frivolous today - read a trashy novel, get my nails done. Time to stop. Time to consider vapid thought. Go make our Julius Cesear costume. Render unto Cesear and all that.
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