While this is in no way a criticism of Caitlyn Jenner, I find myself worrying about her initial presentation of herself and the general reaction of the media and public to it. As we have all no doubt seen by now, she has “unveiled” herself in full glamour on the cover of Vanity Fair, photographed by none other than Annie Leibowitz. Most of the comments I’ve read on social media have been quite pos...
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Memory sucks. I don’t just mean the fact that we forget things that we want to remember or that our memory gets frustratingly worse as we get older. I mean that memory is unbelievably fallible. It’s fallible way beyond what most people want to believe. I first learned about how faulty our mechanism of memory can be when I studied the topic of “recovered memories” in the context of child sexual abu...
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I just watched the first three episodes of the show “Togetherness” on HBO. First, I’d like to point out that the Duplass brothers (Mark and Jay), who created this show–along with Steve Zissis–are everywhere. I was already aware that Mark Duplass seemed to be appearing on my TV screen on a regular basis, but then when I googled “Togetherness” after a friend...
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The following exchange between Annie Lennox (previously of the Eurythmics) and an interviewer can be found on Pridesource.com: So what do you make of someone like Beyoncé? She recently performed on the MTV Video Music Awards and proclaimed herself a “feminist” during her set. I would call that “feminist lite.” L-I-T-E. I’m sorry. It’s tokenistic to me. I mean, I...
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