Must women shout to be heard? Must anyone shout to be heard? And if we are heard – then what? In the past 24 hours, I came across two very different articles to do with women in America. The first concerns women entrepreneurs in technology. The second addresses women in media and an appalling lack […]
Dear Hillary: Two Words
Dear Hillary, Thank you. Thank you for insisting that your brain and your chutzpah matter more than how you wear your hair or if you’re seen in glasses. Thank you for not taking the bait when it comes to the perpetual picking at your style, rather than your substance. Thank you for the debate that […]
Sexualité américaine, Politique de la Droite, et Disponibilité de Canards Vibrants
Objet de désir ? A vous de décider… (Humour)
More Love (And Sex?) In The News
Any political objections to Objectum Sexuality?
Contraception. Personhood. Let Me Say This… About That.
I’m just trying to read my Sunday Times. And enjoy perusing my fave Must-See sites. But it’s impossible to avoid news coverage on contraception and the ongoing battle of wills and words over health insurance, abortion, personhood, and related subjects. For most of the women I know over the age of 40, and of course […]
Learn Passé Composé. Yes You Can!
Vous faut-il améliorer votre grammaire ? Vous voulez bien une petite révision animée du passé composé, grâce à Go!Animate ? Et il faut bien un peu de politique en même temps, n’est-ce pas ? Et votre verbe auxiliaire – être ou avoir – Républicain ou Démocrate ? D’un côté ou de l’autre, vous vous faites […]
Politically Correct
Ah, the politics of language… Not so simple. Anywhere.
Christina Symanski – Weird News? Try Tragic
Here is what offends me: this news item was classified – wrongly and callously – as “weird news.” The journalistic summary in question pertains to the death of Christina Symanski, at age 31, a paraplegic who took her own life by starving herself. Incidentally, the starvation process required two months. She died December 1st, 2011, […]
Perilous PR in Tough Times or, Why Marie Antoinette Needed Twitter
Let them eat… French bread?
54-Year Old Writer, 86-Year Old Painter, 31-Year Old Cutie: Action Update
Some months back, after reading Barbara Hannah Grufferman’s column on women using their anger to good ends, I wrote a post daring you – and myself – to stand up and speak out when faced with social injustice. And I dared you to do more than that. To pick something, and act on it. I’ve […]