Word: starecheski
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...can’t figure out how to speak. When I try to lower my voice into a gruff male belch, I sound like I’m gargling. Inadvertently, I affect a Southie accent. I call Starecheski for advice...
...sound like a village idiot,” Starecheski says...
...earn $.73 for every dollar that a man in a comparable job would earn simply because I lack a petite bulge in my shorts. If I’m to be a convincing guy, I’ll need to act from a consistent, stereotypically male worldview. According to Starecheski, that means inflating my confidence and my sense of entitlement and privilege. Somewhere in the silent night, I can hear Harvey Mansfield twitch in gender agony...
...Starecheski notes the importance of body language in constructing a gender image. “Think about what it’s like to ride the subway and to share public space with men,” she says. “Men generally take up as much space as their body size will allow. Women sit or stand in public as if they’re always willing to move at the slightest provocation. It’s like, ‘Oh, I’m sorry, I’ll get out of your way. This isn?...
Claiming as much space as you can, Starecheski says, is just a subset of a larger mindset of ownership. “You want to act like you own everything, everywhere you go, every object you see, the floor you walk on,” she says. “When you want to pick up something, pick it up. Just imagine you own everything you touch.” Suddenly, something my housemate Nat Tan ’03-’04 said earlier that night comes to mind: “If you’re going...