Fatima Mernissi and the Size 6 Harem Size 6: The Western Women’s Harem. from Scheherazade Goes West by Fatima Mernissi, a Moroccan feminist and professor at Mohammed V University, who grew up in an enclosed harem, unable to leave except…
Holiday Music!
Please recommend a holiday music recording that won’t sound like the tripe played on store sound systems 🙂 Oh—we’ve already got the Dr. Demento Christmas collection. Edit: I should have noted that I’m not just looking for Demento-type music. I…
Always ‘Talking’: When Three Days Without a Word is an Eternity
For a generation accustomed to near-instantaneous keeping in touch, a generation of peers are perfectly comfortable with face-to-face encounters taking a backseat to cyber contact. Christina Rainie had been trying to reach her friend for three days. For some reason,…
Email/Comments Missing
Most of my email addresses were hard bouncing from Saturday to yesterday, due to a server migration. As a result, I wasn’t getting comment notifications or other things. They weren’t showing up on LJ’s “recent comments” page either, for some…
Note to Self
You have OCD. You cannot stop at “good enough.” Do not, therefore, even think about doing any “minor cleaning up” on an image unless it’s damned important. The fact that you’ve come up with the cleanest image map of Georgia…
Fan-Girl Attack
ozarque is Suzette Haden Elgin, author of the Gentle Art of Verbal Self-Defense series and the marvelous Native Tongue trilogy. I was unaware of her Religious Language newsletter until today. The following is part of her Lovingkindness Survival Kit. THE…
Election Analysis
The Democrats’ mistake was in thinking that a disastrous war and national bankruptcy would be of concern to the electorate. The Republicans correctly saw that the chief concern of the electorate was to keep gay couples from having an abortion.…
Take Cover!
Not Ozzie and Harriet Here
You know that your family is well outside the mainstream when… Both sambear and shadowkatt, upon learning that curiousmay9 had “gone to see Alexander,” said, “Oh, is that a new boyfriend?” Current Mood: 🙂amused
By Way of Waya