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A Thousand Points of Feminism
In a country in which women earn 79 cents for every dollar a man earns, in a culture where only 61 percent of absentee fathers actually pay child support, it stuns me how quiet the women’s movement has become. Feminism seems to be an epithet, a label to be avoided. Even worse are those people…
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The Destruction of Women
Today I came across this picture on Facebook. A friend of mine rightly commented, “And this was before Photoshop.” Women used to aspire to have wasp waists. To heck with breathing, we wanted to be desirable! These contraptions caused deformities in ribs and internal organs, weak muscles, and respiratory problems. It also increased the…
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They Like Me! They Really, Really Like Me!
Everybody teases Sally Fields for having said that, but I totally get it. Today, one of my recent blog entries, http://theviewfromadrawbridge.com/2012/12/20/remembering-another-connecticut-tragedy/ , is being printed as the back page editorial in Folio Weekly, which is Jacksonville, Florida’s alternative newspaper. It’s the forth or fifth time they’ve printed something of mine, but it’s always a rush…