This is one more of my morose posts, designed to shed pain so that I can move on in life. Why I am in this degree of pain it is hard to tell, but it is as though I had murdered someone. The phrase “you have no power over me any more” helps a great … More Intimidating, Selfish, Threatening
I was born already tired of hearing about Tillie Olsen because in graduate school, the older students would insist she be included on every woman related syllabus, and they evinced some sort of secret knowledge that she was the answer (she was always to be assigned as the final reading in the course, the period). … More Tillie Olsen
Marilyn Young has had a very interesting career. In her essay in Working It Out (213-227), you can see that she thought of herself as a professional historian far sooner in life than I or most people I knew in graduate school in the eighties did. I do not really know why this is or … More Working It Out: Marilyn Young
Pamela Daniels’ piece, like many others in the book of which it is a part focuses on the effects of internalized gender roles and broad societal pressures which, together, have particular, constraining, and often unseen (or difficult to discern) influence on the attitudes of women toward themselves as workers and thus, their work. Several pieces … More “Not Proprietors, but Guests (In My Inner World)” […A Psychoanalytic Love Song]
A nadie le importa Milton Wolff ni el Morganza Spillway, cosa que me extraña a mí — que si fuera esto un huracán me estarían mirando todos. But if you would like, you can watch the whole town of Butte LaRose go down right here. Meanwhile, in graduate school and beyond we were constantly having … More On Seriousness
11:04 PM in the Crescent City, and the river is going to rise. Despite this distraction we are closing in on the answer to our general question. You have to do what you want to, but the problem in our day was that women were not to think of what they wanted to do. Rather, … More On Doing What You Want To
I am not sure what else Anne Lasoff wrote. She felt guilty about writing and “beat down guilt as one would beat down an igniting spark.” (209) She felt (guiltily) “that writing and school were not an avocation but a private vice.” (210) As she began writing her life was no longer pinpointed on her … More “Writing in the Real World”
I have heard this many times, but in fact I do believe I am unlike the others. Neither the management of time, nor of money, nor of “impulses” is difficult for me. Most advice on life does not apply to me because it is about these three topics. I am unlike some others, too, in … More “Do Not Think You Are Not Like the Others”
So the reason I am obsessed with Robert Boice is, what he has to say applies to me in part and in part, not. I think he assumes one is either interested in one’s work, and so is at least not trying to force that, or is not interested, and so must force it. And … More Et encore…
I am moving this post up because it got no comments and I really want to know: what do you think goes into condescension? It is a power move, but (a) do you think it is undertaken to cover insecurity or (b) just for the fun of putting someone down? Mostimportantly, do you think condescenders … More On Condescension
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