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[geekchick]

I can think feminist thoughts while wearing four-inch heels and the world doesn't end due to the massive contradiction.

-Jessa Crispin

Comments

[hammercock.livejournal.com]

I'm impressed. All I can think while wearing 4-inch heels is, "Ow ow ow fuck ow ow how the FUCK does anyone walk in these?"

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

"The same way you get to Carnegie Hall..."

(currently in 4" platform oxfords, which require some getting used to but in a different way from heels...)

[crouchback.livejournal.com]

I was amused by the Ana Marie Cox review, especially...

I'm not sure if she's right about that, but it's significant that Pollitt would see the world outside her window through a scrim of 30-year-old lefty rhetoric. She simply rejects the argument that the meaning of the flag (like the meaning of the Pledge of Allegiance, which was composed by a 19th-century socialist) might change.

I'm one of those people who thinks that the Pledge of Allegiance's orginal meaning-state worshipping propaganda intended to turn school children into pliable slaves-has not changed, and when I heard alleged conservatives complain about kids not saying the Pledge, I usually drag them over to read the original material written by the author as a means of explaining why I will be telling my kids not to do it. Showing them pictures of school children making a fascist style salute to the flag really amuses me (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:1892_Pledge_of_Allegiance2.jpg). Cognitive dissonance is the usual result of this, but I enjoy causing it, and I consider this an excellent illustration of how most "conservatives" are people striving to uphold the principles of the last generation's liberals.

I now have more sympathy for Katha Politt than I used to.

[brian1789.livejournal.com]

My first thought was admittedly "wish I could see you wearing four-inch heels, or those boots from our last date"...

Got the package. :D