'This re-examination of the adamic myth discloses that its composer did not express the male bias that has been characteristic of most subsequent translators and interpreters. To cite one example, they have usually not conveyed that Adam was with Eve at the scene of the crime. The Revised Standard Version, the New English Bible, and Today's English ( Read more... )

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One time the computer was acting up, so I called it a bitch. This caused a guy to say, "I didn't know you think of computers as female." To which I replied, "What are you talking about ( Read more... )

In the early 1990s, to much amusement in France, but also in the United States, Antioch College, Ohio, proposed a charter aiming to regulate the sexual act. Sex had to be the object of a detailed agreement between the two parties, covering all stages of the process. This implies asking and obtaining permission for the smallest gesture of sexual ( Read more... )

As the Hungarian feminist Eniko Bollobas explains in La Font's article about women in postcommunist states, "The various benefits women enjoyed in the communist societies, such as full employment, free health care, maternity leave, and cheap abortion, only sound appealing to foreign observers, to whom these words have different and much more ( Read more... )

This lovely book brought back too many memories, stuff I hadn't thought about in DECADES. Hey wow, I can actually remember back for DECADES now, I didn't realize that. The story is about an orphan in Prince Edward Island around 1900 who gets adopted into country life. She also has a HUGE imagination and romantic outlook, to a fault (such as ( Read more... )

"When I first viewed my own movie, Thelma and Louise, with an audience and the shooting occurred, the audience cheered and I was stunned because I had expected a completely different reaction. I had hoped for a stunned reaction from the audience of realization that this character had just sealed her fate in a very horrible way. But, instead, they ( Read more... )

In The Thin Man when Nora Charles (Myrna Loy) enters the nightclub where her husband Nick (William Powell) has been drinking all evening, she asks him how many martinis he's had. He tells her six, and, since she already has one in her hand, she orders five more. In all things she pushes for balance. Verbally, the two spend most of the film trading ( Read more... )

Another novel by Amalie Skram, published 1892. This book is about the familiar theme of an innocent girl marrying an older guy and becomes disillusioned with marriage and life. But it's also very different from Constance RingThe beginning of the book concerns the wedding night of the main character Aurora (Ory) and her new husband Mr. Riber. Until ( Read more... )

"Both Amalie Skram in Norway and Victoria Benedictsson in Sweden published novels in 1885 about the marriages they had experienced. In their novels, Skram's Constance Ring and Benedictsson's Pengar (Money), they exposed the sexual inexperience of a young bride married off to a much older man, her economic dependency on him, and the hypocrisy of the ( Read more... )