Comments on: little plastic castle, or the what the f*ck ever happened to Liz Phair?

By: Noelle Kloke

Noelle Kloke — Sat, 11 Sep 2010 02:37:45 +0000

Congratulations!Can’t wait to read more posts…Keep rockin’Have a fantastic day, Jamie

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By: Subspace

Subspace — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:40:00 +0000

What a great post, Bon!

Still have all 4 of my Ecuadorian sweaters! Though these days I do favour polar fleece.

I also find the beauty regime/standards of young women exhausting. I think any fashion trend started by sex workers is a bad idea, be it the hairless cooch, having your thong’s whale tale pop out over the waist band of your jeans OR working your abs on the stripper pole.

In the name of full disclosure: I did just give my lady garden a trim. It was beginning to resemble a play off beard.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 22:58:21 +0000

Thanks for this post…for your whole blog, really. I continue to be inspired by the voices of other women who write because they love to and who write because they have something to say. The voice of women, I think, will always find a way to make itself heard. Maybe I *am* a girl of the 90s (who truly misses flowy babydoll dresses and combat boots…) but I believe we can, we will, and we do! And don’t even get me started on ‘music these days’…

And my muff is shaved, but not bald. I believe in my household we refer to it as a muffhawk.

By: Must Be Motherhood

Must Be Motherhood — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 12:45:44 +0000

Oohhh, I just want to say that “Pluse” from “Little Plastic Castle” is one of my favorite relax-into-oblivion songs. Ahhh.

Also, I’ve traded my broomstick skirt and Doc Martens for dark-wash bootleg denims and boots, but I will *never* wax.

Or feel bad about being a mother who writes a blog.

Thanks for this one.

By: pnuts mama

pnuts mama — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 04:41:58 +0000

i still wear my sweater every winter when we go cut down the xmas tree! i love it! and i still listen to liz phair and indigo girls on my itunes…jeez, i need to let go of those days that never were, huh?

love this. good food for thought for me to chew on as i plow through genx sociology, again.

By: magpie

magpie — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 14:25:13 +0000

i shave erratically, i don’t get my hair done, i don’t own a blow dryer, and i thought that whole mommy-blogger NYTimes kerfuffle was thoroughly overblown.

i try to just be me, as i write, as i carry on through my day. i don’t much care what others think about the fact that i wear jeans every day. i’m just me.

By: Elizabeth (@claritychaos)

Elizabeth (@claritychaos) — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:40:48 +0000

I loved this post so much I had to click over from my reader to check out everyone’s comments.And I just got rid of my Guatemalan sweaters last year. Passed them on to a good home. :)

I look back at the ’90s with total fondness. I became a teenager in 1990 and graduated college in 2000. The 90′s were my decade, baby.

I love the way you tied the ’90s attitude to the voices we use now online. This is just a fantastic post. My comment isn’t doing justice to how much I like it. And like many others here — I wasn’t bothered by the NYTimes piece. I didn’t really feel like it referred to me, and besides – there are far too many things that blip on the collective radar to get worked up about them all.

Again — fantastic post. Love it.

-elizabeth

By: Debbie S.

Debbie S. — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 01:07:00 +0000

First of all, if I ever HAD a Guatamalan sweater, I wouldn’t miss it, because I’d probably still have it. Don’t try to tell ME that the 90′s were a decade, almost two, ago. They seem like yesterday to me in my dotage.

And everyone is entitled to their opinion about anything – even the “main stream” media. But that doesn’t make any one voice more relevant or correct in its worldview.

But really I am writing because of the line. I totally lost focus on the point of your blog. Because of the line. And it’s been so long since I’ve found a line that I am taken aback.

I really thought I was an open book, but I found that although I can (and have) totally discuss(ed) depilation of private parts with someone one-on-one without embarrassment, I am unable to properly participate in this part of the conversation in a blog post or comment.

I am equal parts awed (in a respectful sense) and shocked (in a prudish one) that you can put this out there in such a public forum. Ditto for the people commenting on whether they most resemble a lion or a sheered lamb.

So…I shall hang my head and take my timid, cowardly, high school in the 80′s, embarrassed locker room self back to the couch and ponder this line that I cannot bring myself to cross.

Maybe I’ll even get a good mommy blog post out of it.