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an argument against marriage
11.21.08 | Permalink | 3 Comments

that doesn’t make me want to tear my hair out. So i was reading/lurking on postbougie and they hat tipped TNC (another place where i lurk) and he was explaining why he decided not to marry the mother of his children and (i’m assuming) his girlfriend. When I read what it was about, I was [...]
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J: A Case Study
10.16.08 | Permalink | Comment?

I don’t know where I’m gonna go with this series but I have about three in mind. When J was born, his parents were married and they lived in the suburbs. His father, who once had his shit together, was beginning to crumble. First he lost his job, then he turned to drinking, then he [...]
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sexism in my house
10.13.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

Now I’m sure this isn’t the first time I’ve experienced sexism, but it’s the first time I’ve really noticed. I live with two men and my experiences with them, well one in particular, is driving my crazy. Men are men, and men are different than women. I get that. But dang, why are we so [...]
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Missing Men
08.12.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Yesterday the Boston Globe had an interesting article on the absence of men, in particular Black men, in antipoverty policy. Children have always been considered “deserving poor” because they are largely helpless, and women have long been considered deserving because their plight was usually the result of widowdom. For the most part, Americans have taken [...]

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