Let Them Wear Valentino
Well damn if my browser doesn't refuse to go to it from the link. I think the reason it's hard to find is it's on Blogger from 2008. If you want to find the whole piece go to groupnewsblog.net and search through the archives for October 23, 2008. Or better yet... maybe I'll post the entire thing
Reminds me of this excellent analysis of the wardrobe they assembled for Sarah Palin and the discussion of "bridge" fashion and the difference between what Cindy McCain buys and "bridge" and just everything—and boy was it hard to find again:
Hillary never did know how to "fix up." I knew someone who knew her from way back in Arkansas and said the same thing. This being a feminist site, though, I should ad that I don't "fix up" when I don't feel like it and neither does Hillary have to if she doesn't want to.
Telesma summed it up nicely. Many, probably most, of us knew that boy in high school who kind of spoke in cop-speak and acted a little officious and stiff. Nothing wrong with that, and for my part I will own up to having been mean with my sister about those guys, many of whom were good at heart and went on to have…
How YOU doin'?
I'm convinced it's social class and class envy/anxiety masquerading as keeping score by "getting hot women." Even more, I'm convinced it's a race to the death to grab onto the last disappearing rungs of the ladder beneath the upper middle class as the bottom falls farther and farther beneath them. The guys the…
You missed a generation. The generation before the Boomers was the Silents—Don Draper's generation. They were too young for World War II, but some fought in the Korean war. A lot of the things Gawker commenters lay at the feet of Boomers, were actually perpetrated by Silents.
Not sure, but in some states, isn't this because there's emergency contraception in rape kits, and right-wingers think emergency-contraception = abortion?
I've heard conflicting advice on this all my life. Glad things worked out OK for you. I'm never rude, unless you count ignoring them completely to be rude. But my sister tried the "placate nicely, make conversation" approach in 1973 and the guy followed her into the women's restroom in a busy, public place, and…
Trust me, what she described happens to even the most plain of women. I've had similar experiences at least four times back in my younger days. You're minding your own business, have a boyfriend or whatever, and some stranger in public place starts yelling asking for your number and if you want to hang out or some…
If it helps any, I had an old lady target me in traffic and follow me to the groc. store, and proceed to stare me down in the aisle after another car (the one behind me) had honked at her. We both had small white cars, and the old lady was being very slow in making her turn. The car behind me honked.
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"And some women here and there get downright insulted; how dare you assume their standards are low enough to be interested in a guy like you!"
I was gonna say the same thing. As a woman, I had to deal with knowing I wasn't considered attractive early and often. Somehow I managed to carve out a happy life in spite of it. I was lonely for decades and knew I wasn't supposed to show it, wasn't supposed to let myself get bitter, and wasn't supposed to waste my…
I'm reminded of a passage in <i>Backlash</> where George Gilder supposedly called a group of men "the contenders." These, according to Gilder, were guys who thought that from their career positions and achievements, they should be successful with higher-status women than they were actually successful with. They were…
From what I understand, it's some angry involuntary celibates' term for peers who are successful in relationships.
Well, I'm a woman, a feminist, and a history buff. My personal "answer" (could be right, could be wrong) is that there have always been people with hateful attitudes such as we are seeing expressed in the dark corners of the Internet, only what they did in the past was go to war. Nowadays, for whatever reason,…