Let me preface this all with a ****deeeeeep sigh****. I have often wondered if I could summon the same irritation with a member of the party I normally support that I conjure when someone with whom I politically disagree says something boneheaded. This morning I learned that indeed I can. Here’s the deal. Our currentContinue reading >>
Not Real Enough
First, a confession: sometimes I get angry at God for making me a woman. It is we who are victims. It is we who suffer “violence-against-“. It is we who are told when and where we should walk, and with whom, in order to stay safe from the hovering demons of violence whose eyes peerContinue reading >>
The morning news and our fat @#$*s
Sometimes when I don’t want to stay up until eleven (which is always), but I am not quite ready for sleep, I turn on that rare broadcast: the ten o’clock news. Pickings are slim around that time, so I’m stuck with what’s on. Last night when I got in around 10:07 from a concert IContinue reading >>
The Woman on the Mat Next to Mine
As a child, I occasionally became envious of girls more athletic than I. This was before I learned to envy women’s bodies, and only envied what those bodies could do. When I became jealous my mother in her wisdom would say to me “Margaret, I bet those girls can’t sing a note”. I wish IContinue reading >>
The untruths we’re told about what “all men” are like
The first platitude I remember hearing about “all men” was when I was told at fifteen that all men are just interested in sleeping with you, and after that they will ignore you. (The young man told me this as we were making eyes at each other in the back seat of a friend’s car.Continue reading >>
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