Happy New Year
I don’t know if I am going to call this a resolution, but I plan to work on my website more in 2022. It’s been ignored for too long. So yeah, expect me to be more present here as I…
Category Feminism
How dare you
Brett Kavanaugh’s testimony and hearing yesterday was the closest I have ever seen to someone who was brought up to believe he had all the privileges (all!) suddenly being asked to answer for his actions instead of being the one…
Why don’t we know of any famous women composers?
Did you ever hear that question? You must have. I'm sure you did. Or if you didn't hear this exact one, you must have encountered a variation of it: Why are there no famous women writers in history? Why are there no famous women painters? And so on, you get the idea.Feminism and the freedom to wear oversexualized clothing
Some will say that this is a battle that is over and that we won: feminists can wear as high a pair of heels and as red a lipstick as they want and still not be excluded from the club, the membership to which is awarded to them at birth. (Yes, men feminists have more to prove before they are allowed entrance. Tough luck!) But I don't know if this perceived freedom is a real one or one projected to us in our slumber pods.A woman’s life (and what history will make of it)
I just finished been reading Margaret Fuller: A New American Life by Megan Marshall this weekend, because my family allowed me an evening at home by myself while everyone went to the lake for a swim and play. I don’t…
Read women
You know the feeling when you think you’re having a brilliant idea that is so original and so perfect it sends shudders through your spine? And then you find out that many other people have had that same thought much…
You want to be taken seriously as a writer? Then be(have like) a man!
This article published on the website of the National Book Critics Circle is so disturbing that I have a hard time rereading it even if it was just to order my thoughts for a rebuttal. It makes me very upset and while…
The Female Advantage, by Sally Helgesen
I finally finished this book that I have been reading for a while. It is not a bad book, but it lost my interest a few times throughout. That is maybe because I have very little tolerance for “business talk”…
The Beauty Myth, by NAOMI WOLF
Unlike many other books, I find it difficult to review this one. I have mixed emotions about it and it's somehow become very important to me. Obviously, I am a little late in reading it--it was first published in 1991, so almost two decades ago. I am sorry to say, however, that not many things have changed since that time and the book is still, (and horrifically in many ways) accurate and current.Women turn to (men) politicians for reproductive guidance
Hilarious video created by the Paper Rats (authors Kristen J. Tsetsi and R.J. Keller).