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Who’s Afraid of “A Room of One’s Own”?

Virginia Woolf’s notion of a “room of one’s own” in which women could be freed from the responsibilities of domestic life had a good deal of resonance when she postulated it in the first half of the 20th Century. It could easily be argued that women, who still perform the bulk of housework, still need [...]

If Bush can wage a war on an emotion, in this case, the Global War on Terror, then I can wage my own war on an emotion. I have chosen, therefore, to wage a Global War on Covetousness. Covetousness is, when you think about it, a much more damaging emotion than mere terror. I mean, [...]

Gender Genie II

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This is interesting. When I put a passage from an UA article into the “gender genie”:

Let’s be honest. Before that blackout that took out a solid chunk of the Northeast this summer, call centers and outage management articles were probably the ones you flipped past with little interest. After all, such works don’t have the [...]

Nice spam.

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Well, at least one of today’s spam letters didn’t involve Viagra, mortgages, “increasing my member,” or cable descramblers.

“I visited your website “East Westerly Review”. Let me start by congratulating you for running such a fine website, that draws one’s focus upon a proverbial post-mortem of songs. The mock-academic review of the lyrical content of “Baby [...]