So I finally picked up Woman on the Edge of Time, which I think Susan sent me a year or two ago. I settled down to read it, and I promptly bounced off the blurb at the back:"...the fascinating story of Connie Ramos, a Chicana woman in her mid-thirties, living in New York and labeled insane, committed to a mental institution. But the truth is that ( Read more... )

Having read this article on the phenomenon of pregnant American women being charged with murder when the miscarry or have a stillbirth, I feel---strongly---that I ought to use my new-found petition writing superpower to do something about it. Because I'm sick with horror. And there are other things that horrify me, such as ( Read more... )

Apparently Dan and Jed weren't satisfied with my ambiguous, aggravated tweet the other day. But first I guess we all need to be on the same page?

"Houston, Houston Do You Read?" by James Tiptree Jr.

"Stories for Men" by John Kessel (winner of the 2002 Tiptree award ( Read more... )

Poll just wondering

Related.

7 dating mistakes single women make.

... which is really more of a list of ways I find the author's ideal of modern white American femininity foreign, confusing, and alienating. Mostly alienating.

To make up for subjecting you to that, here's some better dating advice from the 1930's. (via Gwenda)

This banner ad has been following me around the internet the last several weeks, but apparently she only appears for people who have identified themselves as 30-some year-old women in their facebook cookies. So for those of you who haven't seen her, here she is:

Poll The incredible shrinking cartoon womanAgain, there ISN'T a "right" answer--I'm really just curious ( Read more... )

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Context: harvestar e-mailed this little op-ed by Roger Ebert today, and I can't help but notice that the very first example he gives of a New Age practitioner is "the hostess at a dinner party of the nicest & brightest in New York, Chicago, San Francisco or (especially) Los Angeles." And all of the accompanying pictures of practicing New Agers also just ( Read more... )

A month ago somebody, I forget who, pointed to the Schroedinger's Rapist discussion, possibly in response to this XKCD comic. I can't find a link to that particular discussion (sorry!) but here's a good post in which the comic is mentioned in the comments.

So, now. David has managed to stumble headfirst into a giant nest of entitled, whiny, stone- ( Read more... )

I can't find the words to blog about something important because I'm just too damn depressed about it.