When I seven or eight, I saw a television commercial. The ad was meant to shock: emaciated bodies, starving children, a pleading Sally Struthers. I was inconsolable for days, sobbing into my mother’s lap. She likes to remind me I offered to forgo birthday presents to save the children. While I don’t remember that particular young girl…
Tag: United States
This Bitch is Pissed
I keep waiting for the revolution. I keep waiting for American women to take off the rose-colored glasses and realize they are being screwed. State by state, bill by bill, American women are being methodically and systematically fucked. Make no mistake. Bills and legislature passed in the guise of ‘protecting’ women’s health (I’m looking at you…
America Through the Looking-Glass
One of the side effects of living outside your own country is being forced to view everything from a different perspective. My time living outside the United States has made me appreciate many things about the place I still think of as home. I’ve written about most of them before, and really, how many times can…
Nine White Men
The other day I ran across a quotation from Ruth Bader Ginsberg, the second woman appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States. I haven’t stopped thinking about it since. “When I’m sometimes asked when will there be enough [women on the supreme court]? And I say when there are nine, people are shocked. But there’d been…
Wine and Cheese (Doodles) 