February 22, 2009
Annals of sexist oppression
III. Garments ... C. Modern era... 4. Pockets (denial of) In the middle of a long thread on a writers' list-serv, provoked by my post on fashion models, it occurred to me that one of the unrecognized ways women are kept dependent and threatened is simply denying them pockets. This is more important than one might think, right up there...
February 20, 2009
February 19, 2009
Where's the outrage?
Fashion week in New York! The latest and greatest: runways! Really important now looks, garments that make irrefutable forward statements! Gossip - designers up and designers down, business bad, ars longa, deals brevis! And models! Beautiful, lithe young women, ideals for starry-eyed teens, radiating confidence, health and ... wait a minute. I thought they fixed that a couple of years...
July 21, 2008
Batman and Morality in an Era of Terror
It’s not like the world needs one more comment on The Dark Knight, but…here goes. Note--this post is full of spoilers. Read at your own risk. Fundamentally, this is a movie about terrorism, but terrorism stripped of all of its ideological attachments and reduced simply down to its method, which is to use shock and fear to induce collective demoralization....
