FG of the Month: Maureen Dowd
OK, OK, so perhaps I"m jumping on the Gawker bandwagon here, but I've done my homework, and I heart Maureen Dowd. Because she knows that relations between men and women are complicated, by power and wealth and politics and sex, and doesn't try to sugar coat it. Because she's smart and sexy and unapologetic. Don't believe me? Read this New York Magazine profile and this Times book excerpt ... unless you think you're getting the book from me for xmas ...
posted by fabulous girl at
2:10 PM
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I read that NYT Magazine excerpt this weekend and I thought, I really hope the FG blogs about this.
I *definitely* want to read the book.
Seriously, what do you think, though? I feel like most men DO want smart women. At least the men I know. But I guess there's a body of clinical trial evidence out there that proves me wrong...
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UW Nutrition, at 7:15 PM
We're also far from 40 - perhaps we'll have exhausted them by then. Or maybe we're /starter wives/...
I can testify that sarcasm and flirting got me through high school & university, and no one was complaining.
It makes my skin crawl when women misrepresent themselves, sublimating their personalities & intelligence to create a facade of inequality in the hopes that their homme du jour will be less threatened. If he's threatened, that's his problem, and if he can't get over it & appreciate us for who we are, he's not worth it.
And, I think, we'd be better off alone than in relationships/marriages that are based on false foundations. It seems inevitable that we will be miserable for however many years, which is untenable, and/or they will leave us anyway for a younger version of who we were originally pretending to be.
All this hunting & chasing & catching & holding is dishonest and a waste of time. If you really like someone, why spend weeks dancing around about it, when you could get hit by a bus tomorrow? (I actually have a couple of hit-by-a-bus letters in the event that it happens, but they're along the lines of /don't doubt the state of us/ and not /I should have told you this when I was alive/. But I digress.) You could be happy now, or working toward happy together, instead of pretending not to be online on IM.
And don't get the Scottish Cowgirl started on Love, Actually.
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fabulous girl, at 8:17 PM
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