{"id":5881,"date":"2013-06-06T15:36:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-06T03:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2013-08-23T15:04:36","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T03:04:36","slug":"ruminator-pink-vs-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgue.isprettyawesome.com\/?p=5881","title":{"rendered":"Ruminator: Pink vs Blue"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday turned out to be an interesting day. There was winning at basketball, which happens rarely enough these days that it’s a happy moment indeed. There was completing the serialisation of “in move”, my teenage-boys-in-the-Hutt novel, about which more soon (I need to get the ebook version prepared for release). There was getting a heat pump installed, hurrah for that. But the big thing was Pink vs Blue<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Pink vs Blue was a post I wrote over at The Ruminator. It’s about how being a dad to a little girl has given me some new avenues for thinking about the way our culture codes and scripts gender in a really limiting way. I spent a while scooping together lots of bits and pieces I’d been thinking and feeling for a while, and lined them up in what I hoped was an illuminating way. <\/p>\n

As usual with this sort of stuff, the writing of it is also the thinking about it – I look for turns of phrase or metaphors or rhetorical flourishes that feel like they help me understand. Like if I can just line up the words in the right way, I’ll unlock some hidden secret. Sometimes it does feel like that.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I’m pretty proud of this post, because it’s very personal and also very general, and I tried hard to get it right. It’s taken off in a moderate sort of way, lots of shares by people I’ve never heard of. Easily the most widely circulated thing I’ve ever written (excepting that time I cut and pasted a few Wikileaks tweets and added the words “this is interesting” and it went crazy on Reddit).<\/p>\n

You can find it here<\/a>. I hope you’ll have a read, and if you are so moved, do pass it on to anyone else who might be interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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