Misogyny | Misogyny
Apr.10.2013
She came closest to being monarchy, so it is only apt that they promise her a funeral no less than Lady Diana’s. Britons are terribly excited about her last rites, and many seem to convey that it is to make sure she is finally buried.
Her death at 87 should have been a regular and, one may...
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Mar.20.2013
Sometimes, it’s good to just vent.
With that in mind, and before proceeding with a deeper and hopefully more constructive commentary about male violence and misogyny, perhaps it would do me well to release my first, instinctual thoughts about the guilty verdicts recently secured against two members...
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Feb.03.2013
I have resisted writing a blog for years. I don't know why. Perhaps a spirit of contradiction kicks in when so many have told me that every writer must have one. But I used to write regular columns, and I keep a journal. I suppose a blog is something in between. I can do this. Here we go.
Yesterday...
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Mar.10.2012
With all the good news about advertisers dropping Rush Limbaugh like the bag of crap he is, this little news tidbit caught my eye:
LOCAL GIRL SCOUTS CANCEL ADS ON RUSH LIMBAUGH
Which begs the question: why in the hell were the Girl Scouts advertising on the Rush Limbaugh Show? We are talking Rush...
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Jul.22.2011
You know you are still relatively sane when despite the rage and frustration that is boiling inside you can still ‘filter’ and logically, reasonably rationalize a way to deal – as opposed to driving to the local gun shop. Yes, that is where I was the other day after reading comments posted on the...
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Jun.04.2011
Thanks to Dale Estey for highlighting the news item about V S Naipaul who appears to feel that women writers peddle sentimental tosh and should be dismissed out of hand.
Straight off, this is unworthy to the point of boorishness. Courtesy has evolved for one good reason: that...
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Apr.19.2011
This is an important book, with unforgettable characters, an interesting setting and an engaging plot, but first a couple of side notes. It seems in-coincidental that the main character's surname, McMurphy, is similar to that of Larry McMurtry, one of Kesey's Standford classmates in the Wallace...
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Nov.14.2010
What makes a poet Black
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:To make a poet black, and bid him sing! Countee Cullen
Does it matter that I am a Black woman, an African-American woman, to be a bit more nuanced about the Black, does it matter when I write a poem inspired by misogyny as culture...
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Sep.28.2010
Geri Spieler's review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books, www.nyjournalofbooks.com
BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY. The Election that Changed Everything for American Women.
Rebecca Traister. New York: Free Press.
In BIG GIRLS DON’T CRY, Rebecca Traister follows key women involved in the...
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Jun.16.2009
Or so says Kate Copstick, the new owner of the U.K's Erotic Review.
Erotic Review is a sometimes published, always struggling erotic magazine that has been described by some as 'middle-class porn.' Their tag line is: "Entertainment for people who can still think with their clothes off......
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