I do think she has a point about boys getting left behind by school agendas these days - it's a complaint I've heard from friends with sons in the public school system. But it's not as if we live in this wonderful world where equal rights for women are a given and gender-based discrimination is a thing of the past.
Whatever happened to the still beating heart of a virgin? No one has any standards anymore.
Giles ,'Lies My Parents Told Me'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Matt the Bruins fan - Jan 16, 2008 7:06:05 am PST #4734 of 28343
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Toddson - Jan 16, 2008 7:12:00 am PST #4735 of 28343
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
I always wonder, when after a period of trying to equalize things for one group, the other, previously advantaged, group says that now they're the ones who are losing out, if it's a matter of them being pushed aside or if they take being advantaged as the standard and anything less is a loss.
Ginger - Jan 16, 2008 7:29:50 am PST #4736 of 28343
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
The political moment for feminine role models, arguably, has passed us by.
So we get 30 years of feminine political role models and it's over?
JZ - Jan 16, 2008 7:30:48 am PST #4737 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Kate Harding at Shakespeare's Sister has a great response to Lorrie Moore.
amych - Jan 16, 2008 7:41:55 am PST #4738 of 28343
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
Kate Harding at Shakespeare's Sister has a great response to Lorrie Moore.
That's fantastic. Thanks.
Jessica - Jan 16, 2008 7:46:45 am PST #4739 of 28343
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
For as much as I want to see the racist and sexist campaign bullshit come to a swift end, I can't abide the new meme that now we all need to ignore race and sex and focus on "the issues." Race and sex are not separate from "the issues" in this contest; for as long as Clinton has a vagina and Obama has brown skin, they will be smack dab among the issues with enormous relevance to the upcoming elections and the future of this country. To interpret a race that includes the first viable African-American and female candidates in history any other way is ... well, fiction.
Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.
Jesse - Jan 16, 2008 7:48:24 am PST #4740 of 28343
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Man, that was awesome.
JZ - Jan 16, 2008 7:50:25 am PST #4741 of 28343
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
She rocks out loud. I owe Teppy a huge debt of thanks for introducing me to her writing.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 8:01:46 am PST #4742 of 28343
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
Kate Harding at Shakespeare's Sister has a great response to Lorrie Moore.
Dammit! The one place I didn't look. I checked out the other usual suspects, but skipped over SS. I imagine others will be commenting soon.
they take being advantaged as the standard and anything less is a loss.
I imagine this is the case. Though I wouldn't say it is with young African American males.
erikaj - Jan 16, 2008 8:08:40 am PST #4743 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
I'm probably going to hell. Cause when she started in on the boys, I rolled my eyes and thought "Guess who got The Wire season 4."(I hate to say that because I'm probably not that different. But.) That's so stupid I probably can't like her stories anymore. Because I know if I were ever the second crip president,I know every decision I ever made would be affected by the fact that I was born a disabled *woman* at my particular point in history.(And being white does not guarantee middle-class status, either.) That doesn't mean I only care about those issues, though, even though inner-city things are not things I know in my bones.