
Unless you're insulted by rabid anti-theism, anyway. Turns out a lot of religious people aren't, which means I do have LJ friends who are believers. It's all good, at least until people start thinking of religiosity as synonymous with morality. Anyone looking to restrict my (or anyone else's) access to abortion on some bullcrap sanctity of life basis, for example, is a flaming, senseless misogynist in my book. Why? Because most members of this breed would allow for a few exceptions, which transforms their stance from "abortion is murder" to "I'm okay with murder if the mother jumps through sufficient hoops to placate my moral sense of outrage." And now that I've said that, I'm not interested in debating abortion in the least; I discuss it sometimes, but pro-life people need not get involved because insofar as I'm concerned they're either very young and immature (and I'm not interested in giving the same Feminism 101 lessons over and over) or too full of the good ol' sense of sin and damn-ye-sluts-hatred for me to think they're anything but hypocritical, selfish and woman-hating.
Oh, look, that got long and venomous. Best to get it out of the way so that we can move on. To wit...
This journal is obviously not friends-only. I post some locked entries, mostly on topics that a) involve other people or b) are of a deeply personal nature* read about my partner's butt hair, but the majority of what I've written is accessible to anyone.
I'm always looking for interesting new LJ friends, comment here if you want to play. Like most people, I tend to think that other folks with at least somewhat overlapping/compatible interests are interesting, but honestly? We don't have to be twins. A snarky sense of humour and some empathy go a long way. Or just a snarky sense of humour and some perspective. Or, what the hell, just post.
A lot of my journal deals with my day-to-day life with my spawn and partner; that some people might find this domesticity dull goes without saying. I'm making a point of this anyway to deter those who wouldn't be interested, and also because I firmly believe that while being a stay-at-home parent is sometimes relentless and boring, it's certainly not pointless, wasteful or not worth writing about. I resent the implication I should shut up because I'm currently living a 'small' life in a traditionally female sphere of life. I've led the other type of life, too, and it really isn't any better, just different.
In addition to posts of the my-kid-ate-a-toilet-brush-today ilk, I occasionally relocate the mental chops needed to write about other things. These other things include but aren't limited to the science of exercise, how goddamn much I love food and eating, my at times questionable state of mental health, relationshit, freedom from religion, all types of shit that somehow fits under the feminist or pro-woman label, leftist/proggressive politics in general, colourful baby clothing and how obsessed I am with it, the latest in cat macros, motherhood-specific topics like lactivism and birth activism particularly as a part of the spectrum of reproductive choice, etc.
And, yeah, I identify as a woman and not as genderqueer, but restrictive/gender normative crap gets me riled up really, awfully fast.
*) Other people have pointed out that my idea of personal is a little... uncommon... at times. This means I talk about my period a lot.



