“I am no man.” – Eowyn. The femininity debate always brings me back to the summer of 1993, spent at my grandparents’ old dacha outside Kiev. As I recall, when we weren’t melting cheese on sticks by an evening fire, or listening to the radio and petting the cat on the veranda as the rainContinue reading “A Mere Woman”
Category Archives: The F-Word
Dear Helen Mirren, you need to re-think your words on rape
You know, I love Helen Mirren, and when I read something like this, and I face-palm. It’s funny, because I happen to know a beautiful, successful woman who was raped pretty much in the way that Helen Mirren was raped, multiple times, and then turned around and said “it wasn’t a real sexual assault. IContinue reading “Dear Helen Mirren, you need to re-think your words on rape”
Hexy Gets Angry
And the results are here. Please read. All of this has me wondering, why does Heart get to initiate a tug-of-war between s e x workers and prostituted women? I mean, both exist. Both need and deserve help and the basic rights that are routinely denied to them by a society of sexists and sContinue reading “Hexy Gets Angry”
Bristol Palin and the Meaning of the Word “Choice”
I don’t know if Bristol Palin wanted to keep this pregnancy, though I hope that she did and that she does well for herself no matter what. I don’t want to speculate, but then again, half of the United States is celebrating her decision to keep the baby, so yes, it is being used asContinue reading “Bristol Palin and the Meaning of the Word “Choice””
A Pretty Cover For The Bones
This one is for Latoya, who reminded me of my love for beautiful TLC and Mary J. Blige. My mother has always insisted to me that I am pretty. This went beyond the regular “my child is simply darling” outlook that most parents have to some extent. No, my mother insisted she saw something inContinue reading “A Pretty Cover For The Bones”
Natalia A. 