Ways I've Let Down ( Read more... )

"Excuse me miss, are you a feminist?"

"Yes, why?"

"Because I'd like to backlash your booty like you were Susan Faludi."

Today I received season 2 of Twin Peaks on DVD. This is fortunate both because I am a completest, and because I did not finish watching all of season 2 when Jeff had it on his computer during the second semester of my junior year (Damn David Hall and his reading/paper assigments! Who does he think he is, a professor or something? Oh, wait.... erm, ( Read more... )

Other reasons are often stated for prescribing language, though these may mask the ultimate political reasons. These reasons include the supposed illogical or ambiguous nature of some constructions used by people, and linguists have also sometimes gotten involved in the debate in these cases because of their expertise. An example is the use of ( Read more... )

Op-Ed Contributor ( Read more... )

I am struggling with, in a Jacobian fashion, my own compacity to actually understand Orientalism. My specific limitation seems to be that I can not disregard a prior commitment to the idea of the author - the idea of the author as subaltern, speaking back to power. Even if one accepts, as I do, that Said's enterprise has nothing to do with ( Read more... )