That's my knee jerk reaction to Hanna Rosin's new piece for the Atlantic on whether women are well served by hookup culture. I'll get a little more cogent after the blockquote: But this analysis downplays the unbelievable gains women have lately made, and, more important, it forgets how much those gains depend on sexual liberation. Single young women in their sexual prime—that is, their 20s and early 30s, the same age as the women at the business-school party—are for the first time in … [Read more...]
“Maybe we just weren’t meant to have children” [Sondheim]
August 13, 2012 By 17 Comments
I want to kick off the Sondheim Symposium this week with a guest post by Gilbert of The Last Conformer. He originally wrote it as a comment on the original post, but I like starting off the conversation by discussing something omitted, plus I want to reply to it tomorrow. I'm in italics, everything that follows is his. Oh, and I'm to blame for the stealing the post title from a different musical, I couldn't let Eve Tushnet have all the fun. Take it away, Gilbert! As an entry … [Read more...]
Maundy Thursday Problems Again
April 5, 2012 By 20 Comments
As I explained last year, Maundy Thursday is the day I feel least comfortable attending Mass: I don’t like to be beholden to anyone. I don’t like accepting a favor from someone I have no way of repaying or being indebted to someone I don’t know and may not like. I frustrated my boyfriend for more than half a year by never taking food from the post-Mass receptions the campus church hosted. In my mind, the food was for people who had bought in, and it would be inappropriate to benefit … [Read more...]
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