Hillary at the DNC

I just witnessed a sad feat while gorging on pasta and bread after a long day of work (yes! I got a job managing a juice bar!) According to MSNBC tv, Hillary Clinton just elected to give her delegates to Obams as announced by Nancy Pelosi (in a very chic suit)…
I have my own theory [...]

It’s the All Boys Club at the Box Office

In what turned out to be my last precious hours before a traumatic flying experience (wait, that’s redundant) I happened to catch most of Ben Stiller’s newest raunch fest “Tropic Thunder”. Besides a rather disturbing opening sequence that I was hopelessly unprepared for, the scatological humor and endless political incorrectness made me laugh in spite [...]

Can I Get an Amen?

I can’t be the only college grad struggling to find a good job. At least that is what I keep telling myself. I wouldn’t attribute the failure to lack of trying, I’ve certainly sent out enough resumes and filled in enough online applications. Maybe it’s my almost inapplicable Russian Major that is preventing me from [...]

It’s Spelled Blogher…

Maybe we should all start posting as men, George Eliot steez. Is it that we are women that our blogs aren’t taking off? Is it that we are bad writers? Or is it simply that we talk about things that (less than half) the population couldn’t give a shit about like breast-feeding?
Check it out in [...]

Response to last post

Speaking as an unemployed just-grad myself, I have been thinking about taking that exact same path suggested in the last post. But two things are keeping me from plunging headlong into 3-4 more years of college: a) don’t want to shell out the 100,000 bones, b) am worried that I will end up with a [...]

Fear of Flying: the zipless fuck: the numb generation

I also read Fear of Flying by Erica Jong this week: a book I would recommend to any woman that captured me emotionally and intellectually.  As I was looking up the book online to see what has been written on it, I saw it often categorized with “third-wave feminism”.  Why has this book, published in [...]

Jaded?

I enjoyed reading this book and agree with the other ladies, but I am wondering what this book is saying about first love, and how younger (targeted) readers might perceive this message. I think Blume is very realistic in making Kath move on from her first love and find another boyfriend. Still, I wonder if [...]

Shake Your Money Maker?

So, I must admit, after reading Judy Blume’s Forever and after watching the classic 90s hit Little Giants, I’m feeling a little nostalgic.  

Empathy, Chick Lit Doesn’t Have It

I hate to begin this post by making a stereotypical remark about women – for example, how they are the more empathetic sex. But, I do acknowledge that pathos matters in a work of fiction, and that characters, male or female, need to have a psychological life accessible to the reader – hopes and [...]

Coining the Phrase

 
This week I chose to read the essay “Who’s Laughing Now? A Short History of Chick Lit and the Perversion of a Genre” by Cris Mazza from Suzanne Ferriss and Mallory Young’s compilation.  In it, Mazza talks about the origin of the phrase Chick Lit with reference to its ever changing (and in her mind, [...]