Dear Feminist Diary,*

Yesterday at a Feminists Against Lipstick consciousness-raising session, I met the most radical, fabulously hirsute, man-hating lesbian female chauvinist. She is amazing and embodies glorious womynhood and all that feminism can be. After the meeting we took to the stores to shrilly rail against corporate culture, the male ( Read more... )

Thanksgiving weekend featured the dreaded family feast* (with the Gentleman in tow; the Voice sent chocolates and his regards), glow-in-the-dark bowling (at which the Gentlman was revealed to possess mad ninja bowling skillz), being tag-team comforted by the Gentleman and the Voice of His Generation ("Here," said the Gentleman, after hugging me and ( Read more... )

I have, uncharacteristically, become embroiled in an argument about fanfic*, and been politely asked to take it elsewhere.

Welcome to the first-ever Z&Z fanfic post.

Don't all die of shock, o.k.?

Fanfic has crossed my radar a more than usual, of late. I think the comments on Fanfic: Force of Nature, over at Making Light, may well hold some ( Read more... )

Over in Classics, eol_nanelmoth has posted an interview between TAE and academic-turned-farmer-turned-academic-turned-social-commentator Victor Davis HansonI'm fascinated. Prof. Davis seems to espouse a modern American version of the Victorian British "We are the true heirs to the amazingly successful, true, good, and just, and great Classical cultures" ( Read more... )