A DJ asked me, “What if you woke up tomorrow, and you were beautiful? I mean really beautiful. You were 19, blonde, weighed 110 pounds, 5’11” and beautiful. What would you do?” Maybe I mentioned this before. But I can’t let it go. Once a friend was upset about going home. Me: “Why?” Her: “Because […]
Whether you are an ugly duckling or a fully grown, glorious former or present cygnet, fly, don’t swim or walk to go see Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake. There are a few performances left at the Ahmanson in Los Angeles, and I wish I could be at every one. I love swans. I have had an […]
I was dancing when I was eight, I was dancing when I was eight. Is it strange to dance so late? I think I might have stopped dancing when I was eight because my father told me I was fat. After that, you just have a hard time getting yourself off the ground. It was […]
Why am I political? Because society’s consistent and constant disregard and lack of respect for minorities, even the title ‘minority,’ when in many areas of the country we are in fact the majority, is too much to bear silently. Their insistence at our invisibility, whether it is as subtle as non-inclusion, or as loud as […]
Michelle Malkin, the author of the controversial book, In Defense of Internment, speaks from University of California at Berkeley, fiercely trying to defend her position against the loud and angry demonstration outside protesting her appearance. Malkin’s views are incredibly unpopular, especially on such a liberal campus. Her take on the racial politics of the internment […]
Many years ago, I participated in a benefit for the women of Afghanistan. It was the first I had really heard of the Taliban, and Mavis Leno was heading an activist movement to educate American women about the grave state of gender politics in Afghanistan. All the Hollywood actresses, famous and obscure, the Judds (all […]
What exactly did Martha Stewart do that was so wrong that she needs to go to jail for five months? I don’t think she is any danger to herself or society. Getting her off the streets and into the Big House just doesn’t make sense. Why are we wasting all this taxpayer money to put […]
I want to be a good feminist but I worry about the state of the female nation. Today, I am especially concerned about Courtney Love. Love was hospitalized for a miscarriage over the weekend and missed a court appearance in Los Angeles. Failure to appear has tripled her posted bail, made them issue another warrant […]
I am not a homemaker, by any stretch of the imagination. If there are pantyhose on the floor in the living room, that is where they are supposed to be. If the DVD library has the wrong disc in each case, it is like that for a reason. It is my own personal Dewey decimal […]
Margaret received these letters immediately following this post and this post from the right wing website, Free Republic. We originally posted the emails with all the names and return addresses intact, but eventually had to remove them because we became aware they were being contacted by many of Margaret’s outraged fans. Free Republic, which a […]
Thank you Jess, for the topic today. Jess is a young woman with an amazing mind and is a person who makes me really trust that our future will be secure and we will not blow ourselves up and forever have to live in a really dusty plain where we have to build walls with […]
Courtney Love is the white Whitney Houston. Houston had a considerably higher profile, making a splash in the 80s with her pyramid perm and octaroon beauty, she looked white enough to be unthreatening to the dominant culture, yet still was a descendant of R&B royalty. When she sang the powerhouse hit “I’m Every Woman” we […]
