{"id":3984,"date":"2012-03-13T07:34:42","date_gmt":"2012-03-13T13:34:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3984"},"modified":"2012-03-12T19:38:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-13T01:38:05","slug":"fisking-the-red-tent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=3984","title":{"rendered":"Fisking the Red Tent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At <em>Regretsy<\/em>, an elaborate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.regretsy.com\/2012\/03\/11\/weekend-flashback-red-tent-event\/\">take-down of first-menses rites for girls.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>7. In addition to not being a womyn or a goddess, your daughter is most likely not a priestess. Ask yourself if people routinely drop by the house to see if Caitlyn can perform an exorcism after school. If the answer is no, she\u2019s just a 13-year-old girl who doesn\u2019t need made-up fairy titles or a bloody vagina necklace. She just needs a pad and a couple of Midol, and for you to stay the fuck away from Etsy.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"https:\/\/thehouseofvines.wordpress.com\/2012\/03\/12\/miscellanea-18\/\"><em>The House of Vines<\/em><\/a>.) Also,<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fisking\"> fisking defined.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At Regretsy, an elaborate take-down of first-menses rites for girls. 7. In addition to not being a womyn or a goddess, your daughter is most likely not a priestess. Ask yourself if people routinely drop by the house to see if Caitlyn can perform an exorcism after school. If the answer is no, she\u2019s just [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[141],"class_list":["post-3984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-women"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-12g","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":406,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=406","url_meta":{"origin":3984,"position":0},"title":"Labor relations in Harry Potter's\u2026","author":"Chas S. 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