Thursday, May 14, 2009 - Posts
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As a woman who has declined to put her picture on Facebook—my profile
photo is a drawing of me by my daughter—I respectfully disagree with Katie Roiphe's assumption
that this somehow represents some reprehensible self-effacement on my
part as a working woman. I'm admittedly a little late to social
networking, and not exactly a devotee. A friend of mine jokes that my
status line should read... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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Today in the American Prospect, Ann Friedman asks a question we've heard from many feminists since we launched Double X
on Tuesday: Why do we need a women's web site? Did we kill the "ladies"
page in the newspaper only to recreate it online? This is an excellent
question, and one we wrestled with ourselves... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Meghan, you posted yesterday on those Gallup numbers
suggesting that Americans are less worked-up over the gender of the
next Supreme Court justice than the media has been led to believe. I
wonder whether Obama read the same polls, because his very short
shortlist was evidently expanded yesterday... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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I remember being taught in art history that the Venus of Willendorf,
the Paleolithic sculputure of a gloriously zaftig female, was probably carved by
a man as a shamanistic fertility figure. Now the New York Times has an
article
about a stunning discovery of one of the oldest figurative sculptures ever
found, another “Venus,” this one dating from 35,000 years ago. She has pendulous
breasts, a capacious stomach, and... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Vanessa, I share your concern that women have limited workplace stereotypes
from which to choose: We’re either the nurturing pushover or the
demanding bitch. We’re not the only group, though, struggling with how
to present ourselves in the workplace. A study out last week found that... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Ever wonder where S&M bondage gear—whips, straps, masks, assless pants—is made? No? Well, you should have. The Times has a fascinating video piece about a company in Karachi, Pakistan that manufactures fetish wear and exports it to the West. (None of it looks quite as fanciful as the colorful, strange lingerie coming out of Syria). "Most of our customers are from... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Aung San Suu Kyi's home sits beside Inya Lake, beyond a guarded
checkpoint where an armed military officer screens cars, essentially,
for the presence of white people. Burmese are allowed to drive on past
the house where Suu Kyi has spent 13 of the past 19 years under house
arrest. Caucasions are stopped and questioned. It's a line, literally
and figuratively, most expats would not even think of trying to cross.
But as with most of Myanmar's control apparatus, enforcement relies on
fear. A determined person could just swim across the lake and show up,
dripping wet, at her back door, which is exactly... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website DoubleX.com!)
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Vanessa, I agree that we don't gain much by adding the office bitch stereotype to the working woman's repertoire. And like you and lawyer-mom, one of our first commenters, who writes astutely
about her bullying female boss, I also have a story of an older and
more experienced woman who put me down rather than pulled me up. I
wonder, though... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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For most of us, sitting down with our Sunday New York Times is a relaxing experience. But for an unlucky few, it can suddenly turn into a choke-on-my-scone nightmare.
Flipping idly through Sunday Styles, the hapless reader comes to the famous "Modern Love" column, soon to be turned into a TV series. There she reads about "Nick," whose girlfriend broke up with him using a PowerPoint, or Husband X, whose wife no longer wants to sleep with him, or "Froky," the ex-girlfriend who... (To read the rest of this post, visit our new website at DoubleX.com!)
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