Worthwhile Reads

In the spirit of Ilyka Damen's Estrogen Week, here are a few blog posts I've read lately that I think are really excellent. And they just so happen to be written by those scarce, hard-to-find female bloggers:

• Ambra Nykol - The Call to Purity, Part One:

  Curbing enthusiasm requires that some aspect of your own will be put to death. Any pious attitude or ego acquired by those who somehow feel morally superior for remaining abstinent will eventually have the crap beat out of it by the humility necessary to carry out the decision until the end (or rather, the beginning). It ain't easy. The longer you wait, the more humble you become. Just ask A.C. Green; he could write the book.

• Dawn Eden - First-Person Singular:

  A single bases her actions on how they will or won't affect her single, lacking state. She goes to parties based on whether or not there will be new men to meet. She chooses friends who are also single and lacking—again, think Carrie's gang in "Sex and the City"—who will reinforce her own cynicism.

  A singular bases her actions on how they will enable her to be the person whom she believes God wants her to be. She trusts that God has a plan for her and that—assuming she longs to be married—a husband is only part of that plan. Moreover, she trusts that God will provide a husband for her if she follows His will for her life, making the best use of the gifts that He has given her.



• Kathy Shaidle - Gidget vs. Gonzo
  

  In the wake of real suffering, one woman fixes her hair, touches up her lipstick and lands a Fantasy Island gig. Faced with the unbearable prospect of being an intelligent, able bodied white man in the United States of America in the middle of the 20th century, one man dedicates himself to masturbatory small scale violence and irresponsibility.



• Rightwingsparkle - Thanksgiving
  

  What my father taught me most of all is that life is a decision you make. Every day you decide whether you will be happy or not. My dad had nothing but rage fueling him growing up. He could have let that rage ruin it all and he almost did. But that fateful night he decided to turn it all around. He decided to be a wonderful husband, father, friend, and public servant.

  He chose love over hate.

  (Via Beautiful Atrocities.)