Blogoversary

Surely I am not the first person to notice that (gasp!) sexism exists on the interweb. Even just in this little corner of pf blogdom, it seems like not a day passes that I don't see a post or a comment from someone with depressingly dated ideas about sex, gender, and money matters: paying for day care is child abuse, women should leave their careers to stay home with their kids; hypogamy is biologically innate, women are predisposed to marry for (financial) status; married couples must give up any vestige of their independent financial identities and pool all money in one joint account or they're doomed; the wage gap is a myth perpetuated by that bastion of socialist feminism, the U.S. Department of Labor.

Or perhaps most memorably, that getting blow jobs is more frugal for a man than having sex (well of course it is, because once you publicly out yourself as an ingrate who is utterly uninterested with your partner's enjoyment, in the long run you will save money by staying home, alone, and watching the same three pornos over and over again because no one in her right mind will date you).

I haven't posted links to the egregious stuff. I don't especially want to bounce anyone's traffic that way. And besides, it's much more fun to link to things that are worth reading. When I come across a post that gets my choler up, I usually swear a little, and maybe I comment on the post itself, but usually I don't. Frequently it just does not feel worth the time.

But you know what does feel worth the time? Blogging. Being a hale and hearty--and insouciant and possibly even hip--nuh-uh right back. Writing for people who don't think women are stupid (and who don't think men are, either).

It's my three-month blogoversary today. Thanks to everyone who reads, subscribes, comments, links, or e-mails. You are the awesomest. We really must have drinks sometime.