Tag Archives: relationships
Generation X and The New Traditionalism
Are we having mid-life crises? Not sure. Continue reading
“Basically, men, you look like creeps. I have no idea why I’m attracted to you.”
Ada, Lisa Carver is totally one of my favorite writers, and thinkers, of all time, and your description of her as the “most cheerfully dangerous person in the world” is so right on. I read Dancing Queen for the first … Continue reading
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Someone buy Carrie Bradshaw the Communist Manifesto
Ada, those SATC girls should totally go read some Judith Butler, and perhaps some Karl Marx. I mean, I like shoes as much as anyone–I used to work at fashion magazines!–but the movie is really a perfect example of what … Continue reading
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how many times do we have to say feminists like sex?
Oh, Ada, Katie Roiphe’s anti-feminist enfant terrible persona is so tiresome. In almost everything she writes she blames puritanical feminists for making sex no fun. But it’s hard for me to take her celebration of Norman Mailer’s violent sex scenes … Continue reading
I will never doubt Tracey Emin again
Tracey Emin might be the ultimate 90swoman. But in the spirit of her confessional art, I have a confession of my own: I’ve never been sure I’d like her very much in person. But at a reading last Saturday I … Continue reading
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i think this counts as a good time
I think I know less than you, Ada—both about this specific instance and about this quandary in general. So let me first say: I only know the basics of about what happened between Letterman and Birkitt. But based on what … Continue reading
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Who’s Responsible for Feminist Enlightenment
Okay, back to work. Kara, I don’t feel like I have any sense of cause and effect. Like, I know Gen-X men these days are way more likely to help raise their kids and Gen-X women are way more apt … Continue reading
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