Dear Millicent,
I have been thinking of your profile of Jezebel and its evolutions, and agree with the tensions you noted between taking things to task and supporting everybody. It is a problem when every viewpoint is humanized (though, isn’t that an accomplishment of empathy, or just a distracting use of pathos?), and echoed in pop [...]
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Judging Jezebel
Posted in Lady Parts, Uncategorized, tagged a piece of the ladytalk pie, feminism, feminist blogs, Jezebel, XX Factor on May 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear CF,
What a delicious problem you’ve brought to our picnic table. Of course feminism shouldn’t be divisive. It should be like being pro-human, or pro-kid. BUT. By the time I finished this post I realized I was defending divisiveness and having a problem, not with feminism, but with how it gets tacitly defined (or rather [...]
Ladytalk: Slate’s XX Factor Can Suck It
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged a piece of the ladytalk pie, Broadsheet, feminist blogs, feministing, Jezebel, market testing, pink fonts, XX Factor on May 13, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Dear Millicent,
As I bet you know, Slate revealed XX Factor yesterday, its lady blog, with the tag line “What Women Really Think.” The tag line irks me. It reminds me of some scotch ad from the sixties, where a sultry woman has an eyebrow raised at a man in an ascot holding up his drink. [...]
Penvy Is A Bad Word, I Swear I Know
Posted in Booooks, Uncategorized, tagged boys and girls, Jezebel, penvy, Portnoy's Complaint, Power! Roar!, sex on December 4, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Dear Millicent,
In a surprising gesture of affection, my cat has decided to take a nap on my back while I type. It is really a gesture for warmth, but I am interpreting it as affection, and that she thinks of me as a really big cat. Queen cat.
Onwards! As the wise have said since the [...]
Bildungsroman BigFun!
Posted in Booooks, Uncategorized, tagged Bildungsroman, doris lessing, Jezebel, quarter-life crisis, return of saturn, Tarzan, The Golden Notebook on October 10, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Dear Millicent,
I just finished reading Lessing’s The Golden Notebook, and the ending very much reminded me of an old Jezebel post from this summer about the quarter life crisis versus the return of Saturn. You know, how everybody in their twenties tends to have a moment where their world breaks a bit, and it is [...]
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The Remains of the Day
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged bit of a pash for Mr. McAvoy, Butlers, Jezebel, pfeffernusse, the art of the comment, writing on December 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
First off, my Christmas wish: Stephen Fry calling me madam every morning, and noting that the Prime Minister likes my shoes. Butler alarm clock, yes please! Birds tweet, the clock has six months worth of recorded messages in it. And, it’s FRICKING JEEVES!
Other Brit wonders: Shameless. A TV show starring a young James McAvoy, with [...]
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