Originally written in the late 1990’s for a “Popular Culture” Anthropology class. In her book Reading the Romance: Women, Patriarchy, and Popular Literature, Janice A.…
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Collie
Dashing and eclectic scholar-about-town. Have laptop, will travel!
Women, bad boys, blahblahblah: The Redux! part IV
Continuing from yesterday… Kakou Korakos I certainly agree with you that women are often societally trained to be too passive. Myself, I believe the answer…
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Continuing from yesterday… Replies Erin (Brace yourself, Erin: I’m going to gush a little. *coughcough* Ahem. ;) ) Thank goodness for folks like you, who…
Continue ReadingWomen, bad boys, blahblahblah: The Redux! part II
Continuing from yesterday… “Whatcha gonna do / When they come for you?” So why exactly does a bad boy seem to “get” more women? Leaving…
Continue ReadingWomen, bad boys, blahblahblah: The Redux! part I
I was going to simply reply to the comments I received concerning the Firestarter titled Why Do We Ask Why Women Seem to Prefer Bad…
Continue ReadingWhy Do We Ask Why Women Seem to Prefer Bad Boys to Nice Guys? part III
Read part I and part II of this article So no, I don’t think women like assholes better. I think it’s more they believe they…
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Read parts I and III of this article Our hypothetical young female will probably deeply internalize just how much she sucks. No one could possibly…
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Originally posted November 2003 Thanks for article inspiration to Jonathan, who pointed me to an LJ which made me initially start thinking about this. Thanks…
Continue ReadingFeminism & the Bible: Examining the Christian Myth of Creation
Originally written in the early 1990’s for an absolutely amazing class on the bible as history and literature. My later notes, to clarify the paper,…
Continue Reading“What is friendship?” redux
I’ve changed somewhat in the handful of years since I wrote the Firestarter titled “What is Friendship?” I like to think my opinions have grown…
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