Comments on: Reading Material

By: yami

yami — Thu, 21 Apr 2005 02:37:00 +0000

Yow! I’m not enough of a historian to even begin on this topic. If you find anything good, report back, will you?
So, quickie Amazon linkage, then it’s off to bed for me:
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
Fighting Women: Anger and Aggression in Aboriginal Australia
Just Anger: Representing Women’s Anger in Early Modern England
The last two looked interesting, but it’s hard to know if either Aboriginal Australia or Early Modern England would be a useful contrast without actually having some kind of hypothesis… eh.

By: Shai

Shai — Wed, 20 Apr 2005 19:01:00 +0000

Daniel, I remember a book by Elizabeth Wurtzel called “Bitch” that delivered a pretty incisive (and incensed) discussion of the gender relativity of anger in pop culture, citing Cobain and Love. It’s a good read.

By: Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 19:09:00 +0000

Does anyone have any ideas for the origins of society’s discomfort with women’s anger come from? Is it a protestant fear of anger not being the “christian” ideal? It just seems absurd to me that one sex can be angry and the other can’t? (i.e. Why is Kurt Cobain a hero and Courtney Love a slut?) Any good reading matterial would be appreciated.

By: yami

yami — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 12:18:00 +0000

‘Zackly.

By: wolfangel

wolfangel — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 08:01:00 +0000

There are so many reasons to avoid Walmart, somehow birth control is far off the field for me (reasonable pay? health coverage? end of union busting?).

By: yami

yami — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:34:00 +0000

I haven’t been to Wal-Mart in yonks - it helps that the nearest one is an irritating drive away, though, I have no idea how my resolve would hold under other circumstances. I’m all for a boycott but my list of demands for that company is so absurdly long… if they

Stop letting their employees interfere at random with my medical decisions;

Stop interfering with unionization efforts;

Become just a touch more ethical about the ways in which they drive the competition out of business; and

DIE DIE DIE

… then they can have my business. Aside from the bit about how they’ll be DEAD DEAD DEAD and thus hard to give money to.
Steve, you’re dead on; this is one of those times. But honestly, has it ever not been?
Anger itself is not a feminist issue, but women are socially constrained in expressing anger in ways that men are not, and those constraints are totally a feminist issue. An angry one! GRRAAR!

By: Steve Kite

Steve Kite — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 02:13:00 +0000

It’s not you, Amanda…. it’s just parts of the world and some of its participants need a good Hulk SMASHing now and then and we’re living through one of those thens.It’s not an ENTIRELY feminist issue though… Jerks are jerks regardless of plumbing.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 01:13:00 +0000

I think it’s time for a nationwide boycott of Walmart. Bring them to their knees! Force them to start treating women like human beings for a change! Who’s with me?
(I doubt it would work, because where else are people going to shop for cheap stuff in communities where Walmart has driven all the competition away? But it would be so, so wonderful if it *did* work.)
That essay on women and anger is totally apropos. I’ve been in a real “Hulk SMASH!” kind of mood lately. It’s not just the pharmacy issue, it’s everything I hear on the news. Anyone else feeling the same way?

By: Kim

Kim — Tue, 19 Apr 2005 00:21:00 +0000

HOLY COW that kitten is CUTE.

By: yami

yami — Mon, 18 Apr 2005 21:58:00 +0000

I can’t blame them, though, really - if they actually answered our concerns they’d be stuck saying some absurd and indefensible shit. If you can’t say anything sensible, don’t say anything at all!