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  • Not All Rules Regarding Women Are Sexist

    Let me preface this by saying that I can get on board with the idea that in a perfect world, we would all be androgynous robots that were identified by a UPC code or some other item that no one could point a finger at while yelling, ''Sexist!'' at the top of their voice. Unfortunately, due to external genitalia and the simple beauty of hormones ...
    Posted to Politics by superciliouslooks on November 6, 2009

  • Re: ah, what is a professor going to do with you?

    If we were to use the author's logic, Germany can invade neighbouring States, without arising ''anxiety and mumbling'' of those invaded states or ''jealousy or competitiveness'' of other European States, as they see reassuring calmness and conviction that ''women will be always right'' in the femaleness of the head of the invading states. Go ...
    Posted to Foreigners by sorenlerby on November 3, 2009

  • Polanski

    Just because an adult is sexually stimulated by the sight or actions of a child does not excuse his actions. Your author attempts to excuse Polanski by saying the thirteen-year-old victim he raped behaved provocatively. So where does this slippery slope end? With the three-year-old tot who has learned that ''flirting'' melts an adult and yields ...
    Posted to Human Nature by Mary Golden on October 14, 2009

  • Waiting for Betty Friedan

    I'm expecting to see Betty intently reading The Feminine Mystique in some episode soon. It was published in 1963 and had a big impact on women at the time. It was mind-blowing to realize that all the things we'd been unhappy about were perfectly legitimate gripes -- like being responsible for everything around the house and being discriminated ...
    Posted to TV Club by jerzgirl on October 6, 2009

  • Bra-burning Betty?

    Say what you will about Betty, her seeming lack of warmth, and her journey toward insanity, but I believe her greatest strength in this show is in personifying the feminist movement in America. Earlier episodes have hinted at it, but this season it seems more obvious than ever. After all, it was in 1963 that Betty Friedan first released her ...
    Posted to TV Club by juliebells on September 23, 2009

  • She also cooked the books..

    So Laura Murra was *an heiress* huh? Good to know because she personally asked my 17-yr-old little sister at the end of her short summer workstudy tenure to cook the books so as to double the funding received from the government and pay nothing herself or NOT GET PAID. The only break I gave her was that she was a batty lady in a bathrobe ...
    Posted to Books by Kara Ta on September 17, 2009

  • The Feminist War: Deconstructing the Family

    The feminist paradigm was born of women's conditions in the Judeo Christian Western Europe. But it has recently become a global crusade, in particular, on the Muslim world. While there are certainly chronic and systemic problems regarding women in the Muslim world, Islam is not the cause. Rather, there is NO country in the world today which ...
    Posted to Foreigners by Usama3 on June 24, 2009

  • Love as chimera

    Excellent review Ms. O'Rourke! It it unlikely that I will read this, however. I find myself out off by any book that professes to define love, or holds one flavor above another. The fact of the matter is that in the end, all we have is our experience. Like Ms. Nehring's scars and other proofs of tempestous love, we all have our own. I am in a ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by mizkc on June 22, 2009

  • Vindication? Nope, pontification

    Passion is not in the least bit inconsonant with genuine feminism. Studies and, better yet, women themselves, will say in fact that power and accomplishment and bumped-up self-esteem combine to create a very flammable fuel for eros. I posit that the writer, Cristina Nehring, is confusing the agitated symptoms of low self-regard (drug use, ...
    Posted to The Highbrow by BetsyST on June 20, 2009

  • Feminist defense of Fey/Lemon

    The author of the piece seems to imply that the only way a female character can be ''feminist'' is if she is not only good at her career (as Liz Lemon most definitely is), but if she is absolutely unflawed in every other aspect of her life and sleeps around ''without censure'' Elaine on Seinfeld does. I think this is an extremely typical example ...
    Posted to Culturebox by eflora on May 19, 2009
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