{"id":204,"date":"2011-07-22T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/07\/7-quick-takes-friday-21\/"},"modified":"2017-03-09T22:24:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-10T03:24:14","slug":"7-quick-takes-friday-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/barefootandpregnant\/2011\/07\/7-quick-takes-friday-21.html","title":{"rendered":"7 Quick Takes Friday!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>
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These are going up much later than usual because I went to see Harry Potter with my dear sister-in-law. The whole thing was awesome, except the battle scene, which was a travesty on a scale I have never before witnessed. And since the battle scene was pretty much the crux of the entire friggin series<\/i>, the suckage that spewed forth overshadowed all the good things that came before it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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I can\u2019t ever watch another Harry Potter film again, so great is my ire. I wish I could slap that director.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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#7<\/div>\n
I Almost<\/div>\n
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skipped quick takes altogether this week, so loath have I been to return to the blogosphere after the semantic beating I took this week.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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It was one comment near the end that really sent me over the edge last night. I can\u2019t understand some of the reactions I\u2019ve been getting. They were so visceral, so outraged. It didn\u2019t seem to fit a post in which I admitted, up front, that I was fumbling through my own thought process on the matter, nor did it seem to fit my numerous clarifications and apologies in the comment box.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I can only assume one of two things. Either 1) I was utterly unclear and totally offensive, and neither myself nor my husband nor a single one of my friends or acquaintances noticed it, or 2) some of my readers, who do not know me personally, were reacting to what they thought I was saying as opposed to what I was actually saying.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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#6<\/div>\n
I\u2019m Seriously Not Surprised<\/div>\n
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at all that people misinterpreted what I was trying to say because, as I said, it was something I was working through. Almost everything I post is something I\u2019m working through. I don\u2019t think I have all the answers; in fact, I wish I had any. That\u2019s what my blog is for. I use it to explore, to learn through writing and through the comments I get back. I have most emphatically \u00a0never<\/i>\u00a0thought of my blog as a platform where I tell people how to live. How could I, when I\u2019m so busy trying to figure that out myself?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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What Did Surprise Me<\/div>\n
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was the very real anger I got from some people. I know it\u2019s a touchy subject, but I\u2019m in this to learn. Why not tell my why you disagree? As some very mature commenters can attest, I take criticism well. I like to see where I\u2019m wrong and why, so I can adjust my thinking. Why tell me that I\u2019m putting women back centuries, that you\u2019re going to stop reading my blog, that I\u2019m propagating sexist rubbish? All that does is make me feel like an asshat and you look like one.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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And neither of us want that.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I Have Concluded<\/div>\n
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that the best way to prevent this kind of thing from happening again is to clear up confusion about what it is that I use this blog for. So next week I\u2019m going to write a post about my motives for blogging, how I see my posts, and the best way for you to approach my writing.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Hint: Do not act like I think I\u2019m sitting on Sanai.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Here\u2019s Another Hint<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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One of these is me, and one is my blog. Can you guess which is which?<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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One Very Important Sidenote<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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I don\u2019t even own a denim jumper!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
some of you seem to be under the impression that I am\u2026of the sola skirtura persuasion.<\/div>\n
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At least, that\u2019s the sense I\u2019m getting from my comments. I\u2019m feeling like people are beginning to view me as a traderific Tradity-Cat Catholic who wears denim jumpers and likes to tell my female neighbors to get their unholy bottoms out of the office and back to their kitchens where they belong, and for God\u2019s sake to take those blasphemous pants off and put on nice, shapeless woolen skirt. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Obviously, you don\u2019t know me personally if you think this. Let me just clear up that confusion, though, right here and now.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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I have a nose ring. The cartilage in my right ear is pierced. My hair is currently striped blond and red. I\u2019m wearing a strappy sundress that shows my knees. I love Janis Joplin.<\/i>\u00a0I cook because I like to eat and chopping things helps me manage my anger issues. I don\u2019t work in a traditional job because I really don\u2019t want to. And guess what? I friggin love jeans!\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Please remember that the internet obscures much, and that having an\u00a0evolving <\/i>traditional understanding of gender roles does not mean that I would like you to please put on this mantilla before God strikes you with lightning.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Crimeney, people.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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Ah, Yes<\/div>\n
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one of my readers wrote a great response to my post<\/a>, in which she mentions something which I would have thought needed no clarification, but which apparently does.\u00a0<\/div>\n
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My blog title is at least 85% ironic, you guys. Yeah, I was actually barefoot and pregnant when I started this blog, but I called it that as a joke. Because my idea of a nightmare used to be being barefoot, pregnant, and in the kitchen, and then that\u2019s where I ended up. It\u2019s a joke. See?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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But you should really get back in the kitchen before your husband gets home and says, \u201cI divorce thee\u201d three times. Cause you\u2019ll totally deserve it if that happens. \u00a0<\/div>\n
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Go see Jen<\/a> for more quick takes, have a fabulous weekend, and pretty please, can we play more nicely next week?\u00a0<\/div>\n
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