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Tuesday, November 26, 2002
A sure sign we're past the tipping point on this blog thing 
Score zero for the good guys
So next week I'll be Fungo Wingbat, or maybe Corduroy Barfwash
Blegosurfing
| | Also some nice blogback over here. |
Whoamanism
| | It's about power — girl power we've always had but forgot about combined with all the stuff we've learned in the workplace. Needless to say, if you're a man and you call us on it, we deny it. The new double double standard. We learned how to stop playing fair. |
| | Girlism. A label to discount women's human experience and expression. |
| | When women cry, they're resorting to 'girlism', but when men cry, they're being sensitive. Men can be hurt and receive understanding and compassion, but when women are hurt, they're being overly emotional. Is that it works now? Women dress for sex, but men dress for success. And when women get angry, they're being 'girly', but when men get angry, they're being assertive. |
| | I started a ruckus last summer when I posted this. But I want to go back to the Joni Mitchell lyric I quoted there, for some useful wisdom on the subject: |
| | You don't like weak women
You get bored so quick
And you don't like strong women
'Cause they're hip to your tricks |
| | Except in the brute-force physical sense, weak and strong are not qualities of gender, although they can be expressed in uniquely male and female ways. That's the stuff that hangs us up. The effects might have many causes, but we pick the ones our politics can explain. |
| | One of the things that attracted me to my wife was that feminism (and political correctness in general) bored her as much as it bored me. She once dismissed the whole topic by saying "I'm not interested in equality with men. Why deal down?" |
| | Feminism (and now girlism too... or any ism, I suppose) still bores me. I think that's because it's still about power, and there are other subjects that interest me more. |
| | Like how much I miss sweet and romantic kind of beauty that fell out of favor with feminism (and the Vietnam war, and the Sixties in general) and never came back. I listened to a lot of old music while I unpacked boxes over the weekend... Patti Page (Old Cape Cod), Dean Martin (That's Amore), Doris Day (Que Sera Sera), Bobby Darin (Dream Lover) and it blew my mind how completely gone that stuff is. |
| | [Later...] Now we have this. |
What's not to fear?
| | The point is, serious privacy concerns are heightened by the very communications strategies that apparently were supposed to allay them. |
| | Read down through the prior post to see the full range of his concerns. Interesting stuff. |
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