sex versus success

[wasabi_poptart]

Excellent NYT article courtesy of alero

What's a Modern Girl to Do?

(too long to repost; use www.bugmenot.com)

I wouldn't trade my independence, my power, my money, and/or my autonomy for all the push-up bras in Towson Town Center. I'm the luckiest girl I know.

Comments

[tyldak.livejournal.com]

I've been coming back to this post, and that article, all day, trying to articulate a constructive response. I can't speak to your stuff, but I find Ms. Dowd's stuff very annoying on many interweaving levels. There's so much there that's just fucked up I don't know where to begin. Plus, I'm a man, so I don't know what other men are like, from a woman's point of view. Heck, she may be right, in a general sense. I was quite relieved to find this Slate article, written by a woman, which seems to cover most of my consternated bases. I enjoy most of Ms. Dowd's writing, but God damn, some editor needs to slap her upside the head with a fish. The people who need most to read what she writes will never get beyond her style. Perhaps I sound like someone telling Mozart he has "too many notes" in his pieces, but still...! I really wish that woman would get a reality check.

- Tyldak

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

I'm not familiar with Maureen Dowd's work; honestly, I didn't even notice the stylistics of the piece so much as I was drawn in by its content because it's something I see my friends and me grapple with on a near-daily basis, and wonder why it has to be this way.

Call me naive but...

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

It doesn't have to be, though. It really really doesn't. We can stop with the manipulations and generalities and stereotypes and treat each other like people. Otherwise, the situation will just continue.

Re: Call me naive but...

[basilbasilmint.livejournal.com]

good conversation-starter that, poptart is, eh? i'll pay for her next dinner if she gives a guy a "whomever invited pays" free pass,

xoxo
drunkbasilbasilmint

Re: Call me naive but...

[wasabi-poptart.livejournal.com]

not if I grab the check first!!!

you coming over for potluck tomorrow?