On Listening to Sean Illing and The Gray Area): The Church of the Celebrity was really good. Men and Boys are Struggling had me rolling my eyes—feminists want gender equality and have been conveying that in like forever; are men not listening unless other men tell them? Don’t @ me—that was hypothetical. A Veteran ReporterContinue reading “Pandemic Diary—What I’m Listening To”
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Pandemic Diary—On Being Blonde, Age, Beauty Standards, etc.
On being blonde: Dr. Tressie McMillan Cottom wrote this essay in the NY Times about the social status of blonde. As always, her knowledge and wit combined with her empathy and writing skills, transform her subject into a clarity of self-examination and a philosophical treatise on beauty and social status. She’s masterful at cracking andContinue reading “Pandemic Diary—On Being Blonde, Age, Beauty Standards, etc.”