Meri Perra blogs about the challenges she and her partner face in trying to raise their girls with feminist values
People are well meaning. Family is well meaning. We are lucky to be surrounded by good people.
If this is sounding to you like a trying-to-induce-patience mantra, you’re right. It is a trying-to-induce-patience mantra.
I’m going to get a t-shirt made for my older daughter, Rosa. It’s going to say: “It’s a sty.”
That way, maybe people will stop asking. And our dear Rosa, who struggles with shyness, can move on with trying to be comfortable in a large group without the pointing and the asking and the wondering about what is going on with her eye.
Because, it’s a sty. Google it. Deal with it.
