hum-de-dum
Not much to say today. Here's a great review of 'On Beauty' by Zadie Smith, which is a deeply unsatisfying and thought-provoking (and yet immensely readable) novel. Amanda talks about a lot of issues that I'd noticed but hadn't really addressed through a feminist lens. The key, I think, is that there is no protagonist; every female character reflects and struggles with society's gendered pressures on her. (Perhaps the only happy female character is Charlene Kipps, and that happiness itself might be her chosen coping mechanism.)