“The tyranny of nice and kind — the demand that girls act perfectly nice and accommodating — is oppressive to girls and wreaks havoc with their relationships. Such expectations require girls to push everything else they feel and think, especially anger, underground or out of public view. This creates fertile soil for those forms of
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Rhetoric abounds. I just read an opinion piece by a school principal who argued that school days should not be longer. It harms children. As a mother, I have written about how the 8-3 school day holds working parents (usually women) back …but also think of this: What if we had wonderful learning spaces where children
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I just read an article about Godyne Sibay – a woman lawyer and partner at McCarthy’s in Toronto. Apparently at her first interview with a Bay Street law firm years ago the interviewer told her that there must have been some mistake. Her name sounded like a man’s name. She was told that the law firm had a policy
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I love celebrating women who seem to get to the top while making full use of their feminine strengths. Kathleen Taylor is a lawyer and is also very particular about the fine details of each and every one of her hotels. She also values spending lots of effort in selecting the right people and says she relies
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“What is most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in virile women is something masculine.” Susan Sontag
I just read about Naomi Wolf’s new book “Vagina.” I will look for it today. At the minimum it brings the “V” word out into the open which reduces women’s learned shame about their bodies, but it may also enlighten women and men about womens sex anatomy, which is lawys a positive thing. I note she
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For the first time in history we have five Canadian Premiers who are women. Congratulations to Quebec newly elected permier Pauline Marois.
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Many of you know I write books for a living. I have been writing three (yes 3!) books at the same time over the last few years. Crazy, I know. So this is what I have decided to do. Over the next few months I will post my content (lots of it!) on this website. This
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I will be attending the talk “Top Girls” (about prost feminism) at UBC on September 17th by Angela McRobbie. Go to the calandar on my Feminine Intelligence dot com website to get more information.
UBC Talk on Top Girls Sept 17 Read More »
