On Tuesday night, one of my childhood dreams came true. I performed side by side with professional actors in a theater on 50th and Broadway in New York City.
But that was not the most exciting part of the night.
The best part was the satisfaction of a return on my investment. I had put hours into organizing...
The envelope had been tucked between the L.L. Bean catalogue, the Visa bill, and a few things from All State. Caye had dumped the catalogue next to the TV for perusal during commercials, and taken the bills to join their fellows on her husband’s desk. They usually waited for a significant pile to develop before sitting down to pay them. It was more efficient that way. She had taken the bills...
Last night I went to see the new Sherlock Holmes movie. And I started to wonder: would it be possible, in our culture, to create a female Sherlock Holmes?
The movie was great fun, and it stayed true to the book, right down to its subtle jabs at women's intellect. This film does not pass the Bechdel Test. Irene Adler, whom Holmes describes in the Doyle stories as "the woman," is killed...
“There is a dragon living in this city,” she wrote. The word ‘dragon’ in her backward-slanting hand looked like a dragon, with its rumbling letter tops, reaching clawed g-foot, and dangling n-tail.
There is a dragon living in this city, she read inside her head. The pen releasing its ink more willingly now, she continued to write, “Dragons in medieval lore guarded vast, uncountable treasures, piles of gold warmed by a fiery...
Check out this article in the Times!
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/21/world/middleeast/violence-enters-5th-day-as-egyptian-general-blames-protesters.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&nl=todaysheadlines&emc=tha2
We in America should do everything possible to support the women in the Middle East. Until their status is raised, until they have equal rights, we will never be able to achieve equality here. While the oppression of women is condoned or ignored in other parts of the world, men in the United States are both taught that it is in the nature of women...
I may have mentioned this in a previous blog, but you might hear film critics talk about whether the latest movie passed the "Bechdel Test." A film passes the test if it 1) includes at least two female characters who have names, and 2) If those women talk about something other than men.
Sometimes I find myself at Starbucks with my girlfriends, looking at our conversation from a third person point of...
Jon Stewart made a good point the other night--at least Cain's 13 yr affair was consensual.
What I find amazing is that we can have one very intense discussion going on about the horrors of child molestation--which is awful not because of the age difference, but because children are unable to give consent and unable to defend themselves--and on the other hand hold a discussion about Cain which totally misses the point.
While...
A grey day in the middle of the afternoon. The temperature, clouds, and monotonous highway were all conspiring with my boredom to produce the greatest craving for a burger in the history of lettuce, cheese, pickles and onions on a sesame seed bun.
I tried my best to fight off the steady increase of saliva, but it was futile to deny that I was hungry.
"Hey, want to get something to eat?" I...
I could leave my blog entry just at that title, but I suppose I should write a little more.
What makes me sick is the utter disregard of the female vote in both Cain's response and in the media presentation of the case. I understand that, pragmatically, Cain at this point cannot possibly admit to the accusations. We're all sort of stuck in a "we know he knows we know" that it's...
I just read an excellent article by a woman named Blythe McVicker Clinchy, a rhetorical pedagogy theorist. Clinchy argues in her article that there are two types of academic thinking: there is "separate knowing," in which readers interpret and criticize a text based on how they disagree with it, the points they think are weak, and differences between writers' ideas; and there is "connected knowing," a more generous approach to a...
