24 Cheshvan/11 November, 2009
Nov. 11th, 2009 11:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bearshorty“Dollhouse” got officially canceled today and, even if that was expected, I still had a gut sadness reaction at reading the news. I guess I was more invested in the show than I realized. I just hope that they will actually air all the remaining episodes and that Joss never works with network again.
I read more “Half the Sky” in the morning. It continues to be amazing and I’m in awe of all the girls and women to persevere notwithstanding all the trauma they go though.
SYTYCD results show. Pauline and Peter went home. No more tappers. They did deserve to go home, they did get the quickstep dance of death. Nigel did a serious dressing down of one young dancer, Nathan, that was harsh but refreshingly so. They had a professional dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Company, perform a three personal piece. Damn, their bodies were toned and the dance was just amazing. They could move!
I looked over the fifth reading for my class and took notes myself and prepared a reading guide for the students. We are reading Katha Pollitt’s “Marooned on Gilligan’s Island: Are Women Morally Superior to Men?” She is against “difference feminism” – people who present men and women as essentially different in ethics and worldview. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus types. She objects to signing a peace petition of women against peace because they used the language of motherhood. She doesn’t think that peacefulness, compassion, consensus are strictly female qualities as opposed to rational and independent male qualities. She believes it is economics, wealth and power that are responsible for gender differences. It is a fairly complex articles and Pollitt quotes many authors and this will be really, really difficult for my kids. But it is college and I need to prepare them for expos. So they get special homework where they will basically take notes on every author Pollitt mentions and also define some cultural terms like Margaret Thatcher, Rousseau, Desdemona and greek play writers. I’m operating on the assumption that they don’t know these references.
Got Buffy comic book #30 today. I will be glad to have the whole run be over (there will be 40) so I can read it all at once.
I read more “Half the Sky” in the morning. It continues to be amazing and I’m in awe of all the girls and women to persevere notwithstanding all the trauma they go though.
SYTYCD results show. Pauline and Peter went home. No more tappers. They did deserve to go home, they did get the quickstep dance of death. Nigel did a serious dressing down of one young dancer, Nathan, that was harsh but refreshingly so. They had a professional dance company, Alvin Ailey American Dance Company, perform a three personal piece. Damn, their bodies were toned and the dance was just amazing. They could move!
I looked over the fifth reading for my class and took notes myself and prepared a reading guide for the students. We are reading Katha Pollitt’s “Marooned on Gilligan’s Island: Are Women Morally Superior to Men?” She is against “difference feminism” – people who present men and women as essentially different in ethics and worldview. Men are from Mars and Women are from Venus types. She objects to signing a peace petition of women against peace because they used the language of motherhood. She doesn’t think that peacefulness, compassion, consensus are strictly female qualities as opposed to rational and independent male qualities. She believes it is economics, wealth and power that are responsible for gender differences. It is a fairly complex articles and Pollitt quotes many authors and this will be really, really difficult for my kids. But it is college and I need to prepare them for expos. So they get special homework where they will basically take notes on every author Pollitt mentions and also define some cultural terms like Margaret Thatcher, Rousseau, Desdemona and greek play writers. I’m operating on the assumption that they don’t know these references.
Got Buffy comic book #30 today. I will be glad to have the whole run be over (there will be 40) so I can read it all at once.
