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This is the last scene of my favorite adaption of a favorite play. Some lines have been cut and rearranged for continuity. The ending has been changed. But the spirit of the scene has been left intact (mostly). I love Eliza’s transformation—how she stops asking for sympathy, stands up for herself, [...]
The two best moments of Sex and the City: The Movie were in the first hour. Not long after the opening credits, Candice Bergen playing Carrie’s editor at Vogue cheekily remarks how “forty is the last age a woman can be photographed in a wedding gown without the unintended Diane Arbus subtext” (which is [...]
New York backs same-sex marriages from elsewhere. Now the state of New York will recognise same-sex marriages from other states and countries. How fabulous is that?
Parents who have lost children in the recent China quake are eligible to have another child. Maybe later they will remove the one-child policy altogether.
Google Health launches. Google Health [...]
Catcalling: Creepy or Compliment? The CNN article describes the different responses women have to catcalling. Some find it complimentary; others, creepy. There are now blogs that tell stories of these encounters, such as Holla Back NYC. But the article doesn’t get to the heart of the problem: Why do women feel threatened [...]
Last week, I posted a quote from Wendy Shalit’s Girls Gone Mild. In many ways, the book speaks to me, especially about the pressure to be sexy from peers and media. Shalit encourages young women, telling them that they don’t have to bow to the pressure, that they don’t have to engage in [...]
The plain fact is that girls today have to be “bad” to fit in, just as the baby boomers needed to be good. And we are finding that this new script may be more oppressive than the old one ever was. The psychologist Nina Shandler offers a shrewd insight: “The conformist mentality has [...]
Jason: Sometimes women suck.
Me: Yes, we do. It’s called fellatio.
For the last day of National Poetry Month, I have compiled some of my favorite poems—never before seen on this website!—that were either very lengthy, or couldn’t be showcased because there weren’t enough days in the month. I have only brushed the very tip of the iceberg—I haven’t even gotten to non-English poems—but I [...]
In celebration of National Poetry Month, I will share a poem that I love every day. Enjoy.
I know a thing that’s most uncommon;
(Envy, be silent and attend!)
I know a reasonable woman,
Handsome and witty, yet a friend.
Not warp’d by passion, awed by rumour;
Not grave through pride, nor gay through folly;
An equal mixture of good-humour
And sensible [...]
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