Rule, Brittaniea! I told you these were unprotected waters
The perils of being female in Korea
The Awl’s take on The Korea Times’ report that one in five South Korea women are starving themselves to be “beautiful.” No shit!
If you asked a South Korean woman to draw what she thought she looked like on a wall in crayon, she would FORGET THE TASK BECAUSE SHE IS SO HUNGRY.
Even I wasn’t immune [...]
Sell anything
I don’t want to sell anything, buy anything, or process anything as a career. I don’t want to sell anything bought or processed, or buy anything sold or processed, or process anything sold, bought, or processed, or repair anything sold, bought, or processed. You know, as a career, I don’t want to do that. — [...]
Rosemary’s Baby
I try not to get too political around here, or too current event-sy, but the Polanski case has really got me all pissed off and some of the people who are coming to his defense are downright disappointing. Like this self-proclaimed feminist.
At the risk of sounding too didactic, I’d like to ask this favor of [...]
Alec Baldwin vs Caitlin Flanagan
When he calls a slim and attractive girl… a pig, he is using the word in another sense, one that suggests a particularly feminine kind of repulsiveness.
Can’t believe I was ever even remotely impressed by something Caitlin Flanagan would write. Alec Baldwin is no better.
Link via Gwen
Censorship dies in the light of day
NPR reported last week that Judith Krug, librarian, First Amendment champion and creator of Banned Books Week, has died.
Banned Books Week isn’t until late September this year. I went through a phase once wherein the only books I would read were books that had been banned or challenged. It was my Henry Miller phase.
Ocean of fear
My partial viewing of a documentary on the USS Indianapolis recently caused to surface a previously unrealized phobia — the sight of prey (in this case, people) thrashing about in open water. Don’t you know that the kraken can smell fear?
The kraken legend is Norwegian, and has a real-life relationship to the giant squid. The [...]
She’s got legs
Magic Molly links to this TED talk by Aimee Mullins about traditional standards of beauty and the misnomer of disability.
I get what Mullins is trying to say, and I agree with her on most points, but at the same time she is speaking she is walking around on prosthetic legs made for high heels, legs [...]
Sex Machine
Mazda Miatas are such feminine-looking cars, and yet I know two men who each own one. After passing another man-driven Miata on the highway this weekend (red, naturally) it occurred to me I have never seen one driven by a woman.
Alone time
Office work is so depressing. I don’t want to be a cube dweller my whole life (and it’s only my second day). The bathroom is the most depressing place of all. It’s too small, and thus too personal, and it smells like raw sewage because the building is old. I don’t want to know my [...]
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