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...leaders wore as a badge of honor, and she insisted that it was not necessary to give up femininity to achieve equality. In her memoir, Friedan lashes out at some of those movement colleagues. She accuses Ms. magazine founder Gloria Steinem of hypocrisy for telling women they should not shave their legs or armpits or wear makeup. "It was so annoying to me that Gloria would preach this kind of doctrine," she writes, "and at the same time be dating some very glamorous men and having her hair streaked at Kenneth, a very fancy New York salon." Friedan recalls that...
...Shave the ninth-semester shadow from your legs and seconds off your preparation time with the Lady Gilette TM.” Discuss...
ORDINARY.COM Why do some men shave while others grow a beard? Why the sudden hush in an elevator? A new online periodical called the Journal of Mundane Behavior mundanebehavior.org analyzes these and other quotidian activities. Why bother to log on? Because the ordinary reveals more about ourselves, says managing editor Scott Schaffer, a sociologist at California State University at Fullerton: "Most of us don't lead Jerry Springer lives." True, but his show should still get the ratings...
...least in those ancient days, we chess addicts had to shower and shave and step out into the real world to get a game. Now, alas, we can roll out of bed in a total state of nature, unkempt and decomposing, and play, and no one knows the difference...
...authors themselves are on the funky side. They both shave their heads, wear leather trousers, listen to techno-rock and call their lectures "gigs." Though flippantly argued, their book makes the serious point that we've entered an age in which time and talent are the most precious commodities. It shows how businesses can exploit the myriad opportunities in a world in which hierarchical corporations are passe, lifelong careers are rare and a company's most critical resource "walks out the door around 5:30 p.m. every...