September 24, 2009
My wife didn’t think interest in skirts was strange, so the dress-up moved into the house. She had an old floral skirt, a swishy, furled thing, which became Oscar’s.
He wore it to pieces.
I took my cues from her, hoping it was just a phase (even though I knew it wasn’t.) I’m not sure when I [...]
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September 23, 2009
There’s a line, in Monty Python’s The Meaning Of Life, which I quote when I speak at gender conferences.
A woman has just given birth, and covered in sweat, exhausted, she asks the doctor, “Is it a boy or a girl?”
The doctor says, “It’s a little early to be imposing roles on it, don’t you think?”
There [...]
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