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Taking Boys Seriously
I take being a mother of a boy very seriously. One of my biggest goals in this life is to let my son know, as he navigates a world dominated by toxic masculinity, that there is so much beyond what society tells him he should be like. And that boys who fall victim to that narrative often become men who are sad and angry and lonely…and that he deserves so much more than that. We talk a lot about how patriarchy and toxic masculinity hurts women (as we should), but talk less about how it hurts and stunts boys and men, who will inevitably continue the cycle if they can…
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Buy the flowers
Today I put a sweater over the T-shirt stained with kimchi from the snack I scarfed down after furiously answering emails I was behind on, to go pick up my daughter from aftercare and managed to will myself to stop at Fresh Market on the way home. We needed fruit. We needed milk. I needed to feel like I was doing at least one thing right today. And in Fresh Market fashion, the automatic doors at the entrance open directly into the flower section, hitting you with the aesthetic right from the beginning. Lydia’s eyes lit up and she pranced around ooh-ing and ahh-ing at the pretty colors and endless…