As anyone who knows me personally, or reads my blog regularly knows, I’m a bit out of the ‘healthy’ weight range on the old BMI scale.
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I still get unnerved
When I see my blog address in the ‘search terms’ box in my Stats.
Also, if you’re wandering where this month’s reviews are, I’m doing a big review post that will be published on the 31st.
Okie doke, time for me to get some food then get back to work.
How Many Kinds of Feminism Are There?
This is a really interesting blog post, I never realised just how many different flavours of feminism there were. I suppose as people have come to feminism with different experiences then they’d have a different interpretation of the route to the same goal – equality of the sexes.
A lot. There are a number of schools of thought within feminism, some of them are better known than others. While there is a misconception that feminism is divided as a result of these various schools, the differences between the schools are differences in methodology and not differences in their end goal. All feminists want equality of the sexes. This has always been the main goal of feminism. But different types of feminism believe that female inequality is caused by different things. Few feminists fit in to only one school of thought.
The different schools are as follows:
Liberal Feminism: Liberal feminists accept the classical liberal notion that all people are inherently rational. Since women are people, women are rational. Liberal feminists believe that it is this rationality that makes women deserving of equal treatment.
Marxist Feminism: Marxist feminists believe that the inequality suffered by women is caused by capitalism…
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Oh the joys…
I’ve lost my voice again, drat it, so I’ve had to ring in sick – it’s a little difficult to answer phones with no voice, I barely managed to call my employer! I’m lying here in bed reading stuff on the internets to keep my mind engaged. It won’t pay the bills but it is interesting.Continue reading “Oh the joys…”
Gothic literature and the library
Yesterday I took a trip down to London to go to the British Library. On the 20th the current exhibition, Terror and Wonder: The Gothic Imagination, closes and I’m rather fond of certain aspects of the Gothic so I took a trip (also, I like old books).
Diversify Your Writing!
I’m sharing this post from story medic because I found it interesting and useful. All writers have their favourite way of writing, or personal writing ticks; I love semi-colons for instance. The advice regarding dialogue is also very useful.
Humberside Police: Now victim-blaming on a bus near you.
There’s something slightly disconcerting about this poster from Humberside Police about drinking to excess.
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Interesting concept
Being an adult is scary
I’m 32 in about five month. Yeah, I know I’m a proper old maid now. I’ve only just got my own place and a vaguely decent, if temporary, job. It’s great to finally know what I want to do for a living, at least for now.Continue reading “Being an adult is scary”
Possible Middle-earth films…
I’d just love more films from Middle Earth.
There’s so many potential films in Tolkien’s body of work, even if The Silmerilion is out of bounds for the foreseeable future. I thing a film covering the War of the Ring in other areas of Middle Earth, as the writer of this post suggests, is the most exciting, although some of the history of the Second Age would be interesting too.
Other promising stories contending for the silver screen
Even during the initial stages of production on The Hobbit, people worldwide were already speculating what other future projects pertaining to the world of Middle-earth may grace our screens.
The Silmarillion is a vast horde of riches sitting beneath the clutches of a fire-breathing dragon; a source of material barred from cinematic adaptation within the foreseeable future – and perhaps, a good thing too.
However, copyright issues aside, we must not forget the other stories contained within the appendices of The Lord of the Rings; stories that have been virtually untouched by Peter Jackson’s expansion of his Hobbit trilogy.
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Everything Is Better With Dragons 