In today’s New York Times, op-ed columnist Nicholas Kristof confessed to being racist.
Well, not exactly. What he did confess to was taking a psychological test which revealed that he was more wary of black men than of white men (click here for full article). This kind of “implicit attitude test” is common in the field [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘Lipstick Jungle’
April 7, 2008
Our Sexism, Our Chick Lit Role Models
March 31, 2008
My second time: Woman Vs. Men?
Lipstick JungleFriday, I agree: Why do I not love these books? Why, in fact, do I not only not love them, but I do not like them, and sometimes even dislike them? I should relate to the characters, but I do not. I should enjoy the stories, for it is fact that people enjoy reading [...]
March 30, 2008
Why am I struggling?
Well hello,So after reading Lipstick Jungle, the only real question that is coming to mind is why don’t I like reading this stuff? In taking on this Chick Lit course, I was convinced that I would pick up each novel and not want to put it down. I thought this literature would have an addictive [...]
March 27, 2008
What the heck IS a Lipstick Jungle?
OK, so I have figured it out – I think. The book ends with the sentence “It’s a jungle out there…No…It’s a Lipstick Jungle” (435). We were all kind of wondering what this term actually means and to me, this sentence tells all. The book keeps talking about how NYC is the only place where [...]
March 26, 2008
I don’t think so…
One thing that stood out to me in this book was the plethora of references to a traditional family model where the wife is in charge of the domestic realm and the husband is in charge of finances. In many ways, this model makes the wife dependant on her husband. I can’t tell if Bushnell [...]
