Comments for Rachel Bunting

Comment on therefore we must suffer by Andrea

Andrea — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:31:05 +0000

I’m not quite ready yet, but I think it would be lovely to do so soon.

Comment on therefore we must suffer by Marci

Marci — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 13:03:56 +0000

I started this with my mom last summer. We were both pretty out of shape, but did really well with this chart.
http://i.imgur.com/oNWww.gif
It’s the same as the Couch to 5k, except with pictures.
Best of luck! I’ve started running again this week too!

Comment on therefore we must suffer by funkomatic

funkomatic — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:47:50 +0000

Good luck out there!

Comment on therefore we must suffer by rebunting

rebunting — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:27:41 +0000

If you ever want to run with me, let me know!

Comment on therefore we must suffer by Andrea

Andrea — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 15:03:24 +0000

I would love to run. Could never really do it – I remember “doing the mile” in grade school and it hurt and sucked. I always ended up with side stitches and shin splints. (and that was when I was young, thin, and “fit.”) I don’t think the gym teacher was a very good coach – I didn’t know HOW to run… she would just get us all out there and tell us to go. I remember getting about 3/4 of the way around the first lap and having to slow to a fast walk. The damn teacher would yell at me and the other half dozen kids who were walking and I’d feel like crap. It’s almost become one of those goals that I want to achieve just so I can say, “Suck it, Mrs. Williams!”
In recent years, I have this strange yearning to run. I’ll hear a good song and think, “ooh… I’d love to run to this right now.”
I looked into the Couch to 5K program (http://www.coolrunning.com/engine/2/2_3/181.shtml) a couple of months ago and then forgot about it. Your post today has re-inspired me… so, thank you!

Comment on for fear we will take too much by Joseph Harker

Joseph Harker — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 22:59:10 +0000

On the other hand, there was a great article in National Geographic a few months ago called “Machisma”, about how Brazilian women, starting in the 70s, rose up as a united whole and cut their childbirth rate from one of the highest in the world (something goofy like 6.5 per woman) to one of the lowest, at least in the Americas (2.4, I think). And it was within one generation, more or less, and it was done without any fanfare. They’d have their second kid by C-section, then slip the doctor a hundred to add a tubal ligation in there; they traded black market contraceptives; they discussed these issues openly amongst themselves behind closed doors, in a country that is still oppressively Catholic and patriarchal, by and large. (Although, progress: they have a lady President now.) Now, the idea of having more than two, maybe three, kids is ludicrous to most young Brazilian women. With contraception and divorce only just coming to be accepted there, it’s a phenomenal expression of “where there’s a will, there’s a way”.

That kind of thing gives me hope.

Comment on for fear we will take too much by margo roby

margo roby — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 16:50:54 +0000

If you can’t talk about it to those who are your 3-D friends, who read you, listen to you, are your cyber-friends, then not only is everyone else making decisions for you, but they have silenced you. Can’t happen, but you know that. It must get exhausting not being allowed to be.

Comment on for fear we will take too much by rebunting

rebunting — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:22:27 +0000

I know it’s bleak, Margo, which is why I mostly try not to talk about it too much. Wait, no, that’s a lie. I talk about it a lot, both in real life and online. But I try mostly to keep my head above water with this stuff. This week, though, it just feels like drowning. Everyone else wants to make a decision for me.

Comment on for fear we will take too much by margo roby

margo roby — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 15:11:37 +0000

I don’t even know where to start or what to say other than I had such an emotional response to your post [and to Joseph's and your comments], I wanted to be here.

My 83 year old mother, one of the most forward thinking people I know, would add the horrifying: “And they vote” these people who think, and say, and commit such horrors against other groups of people. Things don’t change much. My other life is as cultural historian. It’s a bleak outlook.

Comment on for fear we will take too much by rebunting

rebunting — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:56:45 +0000

Oh, I saw it, Joseph.
I’m not terrified of that sort of epidemic. And if it happens, I think the same people who are suggesting we just stick an aspirin up there are going to be so far removed from it because here’s the reality of the situation: If you are white and you have money, or if you are very good friends with someone who is white and has money, you can get whatever you need. You will never lack access to the things that matter. So while the unwashed masses might have these problems, the American elite never will. They’ll still have access to really good doctors who do secret abortions that no one talks about.