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...quickly outweighed by the positive nature of her experience. Fleming felt that when she made the decision in eighth grade to attend an all-girls high school, her choice was met with biting responses. “There was an assumption that people made, that I might be a feminist, and in middle school the boys would joke about lesbianism,” Fleming says. Joanna Marquina ’10, didn’t want to leave her guy friends behind and attend an single-sex school. In fact, the decision to enter Woodlands Academy, an all-girls Catholic...
...Leatherheads, Rutherford is lightly brushed by scandal. And by Lexie Littleton (Renee Zellweger), a proto-feminist newspaper reporter intent on exposing (perhaps inventing would be a better word) a less-than-sterling Rutherford myth. She is, of course, smitten with him. And, she banters fiercely with Connolly - and anyone the least bit familiar with the basic tropes of romantic comedy has to know where that is heading. The course of true love is always charted by the exchange of zingers, which in this case are pretty well written by Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly...
Another part of Jensen’s appeal (aside from personal charisma and his pet cat anecdotes) is that he that links up this modern disillusionment with a doctrine of apocalypse and redemption. In Jensen’s eco-feminist world, “nature” stands in for the divine entity; Gaia is the force for good, the all-embracing mother in a terrible violent world. “Civilization” is the rapist, the pillager, the lustful Satan. Jensen’s world gives everything meaning in the way that he taps into a feeling that...
...could ever accuse Rita Mae Brown, 63, of having lived a boring life. The bestselling author of 37 books is nothing if not versatile: feminist activist, mystery writer, lesbian pioneer, fox hunter, screenwriter, novelist, animal rescuer. She even became a tabloid star during her three-year relationship with tennis superstar Martina Navratilova. TIME's Andrea Sachs spoke with Brown, who was in Pennsylvania on tour for her latest book, The Purrfect Murder (Bantam...
...Particularly disturbing is the revelation that the former feminist icon had said nearly the exact same thing about Jesse Jackson’s doomed 1988 run for the White House, back when her language couldn’t be chalked up to her bygone era or senility. This seems to cast a shadow on some of the past days’ saber-rattling, too—for example, Ferraro said yesterday, “I really think they’re attacking me because I’m white. How’s that?” In spite...