December 2009
11 posts
Somehow, I don’t see salivating over boobs and jokes about breast-collecting psychos as consciousness raising: http://tinyurl.com/y9j8ftp
Reader: “I’m guessing Ms. Clark-Flory is … a tyrant shrew in person.” Ahh, it’s good to be back from vacation.
Guess I had more to say on Carrie Bradshaw apparently improving/ruining things for women: http://tinyurl.com/yawykzo
“She was a writer who arrived in the big city to test her mettle and realise her...”
– Naomi Wolf argues that the “Sex and the City” heroine “did as much to shift the culture around certain women’s issues as real-life feminist groundbreakers.”
Reader letter: “TCF is a fountain of excrement, but [Dr. Drew] makes TCF seem a wise philosopher and well adjusted human being.”
“Sex addiction has become the go-to defense for extramarital affairs (I’m...”
– … so, is it real? Check out my latest article for an exploration of that very question.
Much Ado About Strippers
The New York Daily News has found its latest excuse for traffic-whoring: The new movie “Nine,” which the New York Times likens to “a spread in a Victoria’s Secret catalog, only less tasteful.” But, while this slideshow of Hollywood actresses playing strippers certainly isn’t meant as a thinker, it called to mind a PowerPoint presentation for a Women Studies 101...
“Concealment was her game … She collected snails, liking their portable...”
– “Patricia Highsmith, Hiding in Plain Sight,” by Jeanette Winterson
“The image before him was clearly just a smear of black ink in the middle of a...”
– “Do You See What I See?” by Antonya Nelson