March 2011
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“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the...”
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Fmr. MLB commissioner Bart Giamatti, “Green Fields of the Mind”.
One. More. Day.
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One of my best friends once described baseball as “poetic.” This is beautiful.
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“It’s hard to find female leads that are flawed and interesting and...”
– Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg will get married and divorced (in the movies) | 24 Frames | Los Angeles Times
MARRY ME RASHIDA. This is so wonderful! I love that she points out that strong, fully-fleshed out characters have flaws. People think that if they make a female character physically...
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The Feministing Rom Com Review: Morning Glory →
And then she walks out the door and goes back to work. It shouldn’t be extraordinary for a romantic comedy heroine to unashamedly choose career over romance, but it is.
Once again, Feministing has written pretty much the exact same review I was going to write. Saves me the typing and the thinking, I guess!
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Sexism in action
My sister just told me that after she recently paid for a bowl of soup in ones, a male cashier at a local Panera asked her if she “worked last night.”
My sister thought it was weird but didn’t view it as sexual harassment.
This is the state of women in our society. Subtle, sexist, harassing statements by male strangers are considered acceptable. People think that they can...
