Gender Equality

I was at dinner with an old acquaintance a few weeks ago. We ran out of things to talk about, as our lives, joined for hardly a few months, parted ways without regret or attachment. We ended up talking about the election, the candidates, the issues. During my miso soup he just came out and asked me, "are you pro-life or pro-choice?"  Read More »

Well, I'm finally back from Greece. To be honest, it was pretty boring. Didn't go sight seeing much. Didn't go to the beach much. Just stayed with my grandparents in their rural mountain village.  Read More »

I was at work the other day when "Before He Cheats" by Carrie Underwood came on the radio.

I know the song's been on the radio for about two years now, but I never really thought of it in a sociopolitical context before that night.  Read More »

In Faulkner’s much vaunted The Sound and the Fury Caddie Compson responds to her brother’s questions of why she allowed a boy kiss her by taunting his horror of the defilement of what he perceives to be her honor, claiming

“I didn’t let him, I made him!”  Read More »