“Fighting that bears no fruit” is what Nezua dislikes about lo académico. It is the best concise diagnosis of the problem I have seen. It took me about five years of professordom to finally understand: these people want to complain and struggle, but they do not want to resolve problems. There is also the penchant … More “Fighting That Bears No Fruit”
Not yet being a Bodhisattva, I do not always feel one hundred percent sisterly. Some days I have extreme difficulty being nice to certain well-heeled women I know who are very proud of their so-called independence and authority but are actually running dogs of patriarchy (as Mao might have said). One such informs me now … More Patriarchal Women II
I I went to graduate school because the woman at the career center said that looking for a real job was a full time job, and that getting one would take about six months of full time looking. This gave me great pause, since it meant I would have to spend the last six months … More Des mauvais grisgris académiques
Monday was Blogging for Sex Education Day and I did not know, but I know now, and my favorite post on this topic is from Jack’s Non-Blog. It says in part that [s]ex has, for many people, an emotional impact that is rarely discussed logically in any form, and is normally reduced to saccharine conceptions … More Blogging for Sex Education
Why does writing appear to be so closely imbricated with managing the self? This post does not answer that question. I Now I have made a small amount of progress on this paper. I have discovered a way to redefine it, at least for myself, so that it is less intimidating: I will think of … More On Writing: Notes
An important answer to this question is, she does not remember that she has the right. I remember feeling I only had the right to ask for changes. The result was always that I ended up apologizing for having asked. It was excruciating. The point is that I had forgotten I had the right. Before … More Why She Does Not Just Leave
Women do not speak clearly, it is often said. Is this only because we are socialized to be very diplomatic, especially around men? Is it also because men are socialized not to take what we say seriously? Do these two phenomena feed upon each other? Why is there a newspaper article each year exhorting men … More On Women Not Being Clear
It appears that being a nationally recognized wetlands expert and working to save the coastline is not good for an academic career in Louisiana. We can read all about it in the Baton Rouge Daily Advocate. Paul Keddy’s university issued the following press release about him May 2: Southeastern Louisiana University wetlands expert Paul Keddy … More On Academic Freedom
In the Daily Mail today is a precious picture of George W. Bush winking at the Queen. In the Guardian we find Maid Service, an article on the question of corruption. Below are some highlights, with interesting information on contemporary Peru. I have of course bolded the most shocking paragraph. Why is corruption endemic in … More On Inequality and the Origins of Corruption
Nicolas Sarkozy has been elected President of the Republic of France, and he has a triumphalist video. The White House is of course pleased and I, of course, am not. A year or so ago this blog was being attacked by French people opposed to the Iraq war. They said that as an American, I … More Travail, famille, patrie
