Old Maid n: a Crone who has steadfastly resisted imprisonment in the Comatose State of matrimony: SURVIVOR, SPINSTER.
From Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi.
“You shall have [this guinea]…on condition that you help all properly qualified people, of whatever sex, class or colour, to enter your profession, and further on condition that in the practise of your profession you refuse to be separated from poverty, chastity, derision, and freedom from unreal loyalties…By poverty is meant enough money to live […]
“To write, for a lesbian, is to learn how to take down the patriarchal posters in her room. It means learning how to live with bare walls for a while. It means learning how not to be afraid of the ghosts which assume the colour of the bare wall. In more literary terms, it means […]
I’ve noticed that a lot of writers think a catchy title can make up for a multitude of literary sins these days. In the case of Jennifer Baumgardner’s recent Alternet article, the title, while sure to draw in readers of all stripes, is not so much catchy as seriously misleading.
Full disclosure: I’ve […]
“Healthism, simply put, is an overemphasis on keeping healthy. Social critic Robert Crawford believes that many persons today (particularly, he notes, the more affluent) are too focused on staying healthy. He suggests that people have become preoccupied with controlling the more manageable health factors like smoking or diet because they feel powerless to […]
Code, Elemental
1: the vast Virgin potential in every Elemental being
2: the potential in each woman which she can choose to Discover and Realize; Elemental promise hidden by the phallocentric system/code of symbols that has been embedded in female psyches in order to block Self-Realization and to program women in man-made […]
In trying to come up with some online information about The Weir for those of you who don’t know anything about Ruth Moore, or Maine, I found this lovely piece on Moore’s life and writing, including information about her relationship with Eleanor Mayo. I do understand biographers’ desire not to characterize past events […]
The mill of the gods grinds slowly, but it grinds exceedingly fine.
–Grammy
Grammy was quite a woman. If you’ve read Ruth Moore’s book The Weir, then you know my Grammy. She was a hard, bitter, mean woman who nevertheless had a big soft spot in her heart for me from the minute I arrived […]
Over at feh-muh-nist, my chum Yawning Lion (not her real name) is recapping her year. It’s exactly the kind of thing she would do and I wouldn’t think of in a million years, but I’m going to ping off of her because, well, she wrote about me a lot and it made me feel […]
Here’s another new feature, which once again helps me believe that I’ve blogged even when I really haven’t! This is from the fabulous book Websters’ First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language conjured by Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi. Mary Daly’s one of those feminists everyone loves to hate, […]
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