you'll never believe what barbie said...
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yesterday morning i was chillin with jaelyn, playing with barbies with her (at her request, and yes, i'm mortified that my child even *has* barbies -- don't worry they're at least non-white barbies) when my barbie said, "mommy I think i'm going to run for president this year..."

"girls can't be presidents only boys."

daddy wants to jump out of his skin....what!?!?!....but instead, his barbie calmly climbs up the pillow to gather rhetorical poise, and she says, "girls can too be presidents. They can be anything they want to be!"

her barbie said: "I don't want to run for president because i need to stay at home and take care of my adopted babies."

now don't get me wrong here, i'm REALLY glad that my daughter has a strong nurturing instinct. but where did she get this idea...

my barbie says, "why doesn't their daddy take care of them while you're the president?"

"because," she answers matter of factly, "the daddy has to go on trips and i need to stay at home with my honnys."

AHH! i'm never going on a trip again. Lynn's going on two trips a semester. How insidious?!?! how pervasive is this gender programming?!!!

(insidious and pervasive are both on the favorite word list.)

on the trip i just took we talked about gender quite a bit -- and there's a dialogue going in the emergent church circles going on over the last few days....

I made on the trip -- a bold assertion that I'm going to make here again -- i'll only blog about it if it en*genders* (heh,heh, get it?) some interesting feedback....

"Gender (not sex) is in opposition to Cross / Gospel."

And just to ratchet up the inflammatory tone just slightly, I'll admit that this statement was made as a critique of the promise-keepers movement *&* gay culture (as if there was *just one*)

thems the bait...any interested takers...

i remain...

barbies sworn enemy, but devoted to...

peace~

its a snow day.

for me too!

it just feels like this huge gift has been given to me. TIME.

This from the guy who doesn't believe at all in time...

who calls watches "institutional handcuffs"

and who is convinced that the invention and perpetuation of societal belief in "time" is the conspiracy of some folks who are trying to KEEP US DOWN. (that's right. the "man")

in any case...we've wriggled free for an afternoon and evening. I'm off to frolic in the snow and sleet...

favorite word/concepts

i have lots of them, but don't keep a formal list anywhere (i guess til now), but upon prompting, the following tumble of word/concepts comes jumbling out of me as a favorite discursive corner in the world...

hazy, indeterminate, indistinct, translucent.

You get it? There, but not quite there. Available but not assured.

so when i bumped into this place this morning, I decided that such a place was built for me to visit...

...anyone up for a trek to the great mythic North?

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discursively formed
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i've been away for the weekend with a group of students who i love. no really, *love*. it was a really great group. a really rewarding time...

it was the sort of group that was constituted mostly of external - processers...so the experience was thick with commentary, punchline, idiom, and in-jokes. by the end of the weekend Ann mentioned the sort of incipient disappointment at seeing it end. Kristy took notes on it and ended up charting an entire universe of discourse. after these sorts of time-out-of-time experiences -- everyone who participates comes away with a keen sense that there's a world we've created together. and even though we'll temporally never be able to return to it -- its a world that will always inform our future worlds.

but then i came back this morning and checked my blogroll and found out that i (or at least the character i play on this blog) was popping up on several blogs. And it felt great. So. Thanks for making me real marcaus, kelly, trena, & bemis (albeit ambivalently so...). oh yeah, and commenters too. Russ, Ryan, Kleman, Skylark, Marcaus, Gary, my brothers....

i'll be thinking of y'all today...

peace~