This Pittsburgh Post-Gazette story about a woman’s eBook store goes from these empowering prose…
Opening just last week, www.eBooksAboutWomen.com carries everything from “weighty academic tomes on the history of suffrage and the issues of women’s equality” to an extensive collection of books featuring today’s most popular women sleuths.
“From women authors to women’s studies, this store celebrates women,” says Gigi Reynard, CEO of eBooksAbout, based in Palm Springs, Calif. “There are biographies, information about women’s health and eBooks by women authors.”
To this which made me think…what…the….EFF!!!!
“For many women, it’s kind of a guilty pleasure,” she says with a chuckle. “If you’re like me, every once in a while I want to have a romance [novel] because I can’t stand my life.
Maybe she needs therapy or self-confidence lessons instead of a Harlequin.
and have NOT looked through it since…
The prevailing wisdom is that exposure to vast amounts of gossip, particularly about Hollywood’s so-called bad girls — Ms. Hilton, Ms. Spears and Lindsay Lohan, to name the most frequently chastised — is leading America’s impressionable 8-to-12-year-old girls into the gutter. But the reality is more complex.
In interviews, tweens tend to be highly judgmental of the much-publicized antics, turning them into age-appropriate morality tales that would make their parents proud and bring comfort to those who fear the next generation will be made up of pantyless party girls known more for their D.W.I.s than their G.P.A.s.
from here
I’d rather find my “morality tales” elsewhere. Maybe I’m just snobby.
Lets put the wife in charge of the husbands!
What this says about birth control is very, very interesting.
OK so back to shopping…I do like some kinds of shopping in this order…
(I don’t want to improperly represent myself!)
(1) Book shopping anywhere anytime!
(2) Internet shopping. Mostly on amazon. (I still don’t get eBay!!)
subcategory: I like putting up stuff on an amazon wishlist and seeing what I get in return.
(3) Shopping right before the store closes on an odd weekday night when no one is around.
(4) And my favorite at the library!
That’s it!
It’s a sad sad story
That a mother will teach her daughter
that she ought to hate a perfect stranger.
And how in the world
Can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Saying that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over
- Dixie Chicks, Not Ready to Make Nice
This statement sums up how I feel about shopping as a “fun” hobby:
A lot of women with young families and careers can’t be bothered with shopping — a larger problem for the industry, especially old-line department stores. As Natasha Fraser-Cavassoni, a writer in Paris, put it: “The idea of lunch with a girlfriend and then going shopping — I prefer to stick my hand in fire.”
From here.
On feminism: “It appears that America’s anti-biblical feminist movement is at last dying, thank God, and is possibly being replaced by a Christ-centered men’s movement which may become the foundation for a desperately needed national spiritual awakening.”
That’s right…Jerry Fallwell.
This article is great and basically calls out all the politicians who rushed to say something nice about the dude.
Did Rudy Giuliani really believe “we all have great respect for him”? Does John McCain - who was savaged by Falwell and his ilk in the 2000 presidential race - really think Falwell was “a man of distinguished accomplishments”? Did Mitt Romney really find it a good thing that “the legacy of his important work will continue”?
I guess in a world where you are shunned publicly when you say something racist, sexist or homophobic, its important only to say nice things about one of the most angry, mean men of all.
