Word: ephron
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact is, you were beginning to think she was a little, well, obsessed. But not warped. Everyone's a little crazy on at least one subject, and most women probably do feel that their craziness is in some way linked to their being women, so Ephron's naled confession of her own craziness sets up a sort of bond between her and the reader. It's probably only coincidental that this essay is the first in the book--the pieces are arranged chronologically but it somehow justifies Ephron's assertive presence in the next...
...EPHRON STARTED out thinking she was "temperamentally suited" to be an objective reporter, a witness to events. But "now things have changed. I would still hate to be described as a participatory journalist; but I am a writer and I am a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict." Perhaps the problem is that the women's movement, by its very nature so bound up with emotions and subjective reactions, is an impossible subject to report on objectively--and that goes for mate reporters as well as female ones. In any case. Ephron's journalistic method...
...instance, the subject of consciousness-raisin. No doubt it is possible to write an "objective" examination of such a topic--interview various people, authorities, social critics, etc., pro and con--but it probably wouldn't be nearly as interesting or nearly as revealing. What Ephron found her group degenerating into was "a running soap opera, with new episodes on the same theme every week"--Episode 13 of the Barbara is Uninhibited and Peter is a Drag Show, Episode 19 of the Will Joanna Ever Get Dave to Share the Household Duties Show; Claire and Herbie in the Claire has Sexual...
...Ephron began to see that the kind of "support" the group was giving was along the lines of "I think-you're crazy to-stand another minute-of-that," and that it seemed to be pushing several of brink of divorce. So she found herself in the horrifying position of agreeing with, of all people. Midge Decter, arch anti-feminist, who sees CR groups as potential homewreckers; but Ephron's words carry much more weight, because you know how it hurts her to have to say them...
...THERE are pitfalls to the personal involvement method, pitfalls of which Ephron is often aware. she is careful not to make the mistake of generalizing from her own experience when it comes to consciousness-raising; she knows that her conclusions are limited to a certain group of women conclusions are limited to a certain group of women from a certain socio-economic background living in New York, at a captain time, and she is willing eyes eager, to concede that some CR groups may be "wonderful." But she is not so careful and even handed when it comes to other...