"One Good Thing": flea's letter to her sons Alex and Chris

This was linked from Blogging Baby, and I wanted to make sure I didn't lose it. It's a lesson that I think of every day. I lecture occasionally on women's sexuality in my anthropology classes, and talk about how our society doesn't really recognize the validity of women's erotic feelings. Being able to really say "I want it" means that it doesn't preclude later saying "I don't like that, please don't do it." Flea's column today is a letter to her young sons about their responsibility as white men to protect the defenseless, even when no one else is, even when everyone else is going along with it. I won't try to tell the rest. She takes my breath away.