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?
Zoe: Don't think it's a good spot, sir. She still has the advantage over us. Mal: Everyone always does. That's what makes us special.
'Serenity'
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."
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
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.
Daisy Jane - Jan 16, 2008 8:08:42 am PST #4744 of 28343
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."
I love this:
We are in no way beyond the need for a woman president or a president of color -- a fact that's perhaps best illustrated by the ongoing insistence that it's an either/or proposition, as if women of color are some sort of mythical creatures.
erikaj - Jan 16, 2008 8:10:52 am PST #4745 of 28343
Always Anti-fascist!
Of course they're not. But thinking of it that way brings up Condi, for whom I would never vote in a billion years.