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A Letter to Gail Collins: Please stop hating on young women

Dear Gail,

What were you thinking when you penned this letter to young American women? After listing the various obstacles facing women today — discrimination, sexual harassment, violence, oppression — you say:

What with all that, it looks like there’s plenty on your plate. And if you don’t feel like dwelling on the non-problems, if you automatically assume that a woman has as much right to have a terrific career and exciting adventures as any guy, that’s great. For the entire history of recorded civilization, people had ideas about women’s limitations, and their proper (domestic) place in the world. That all changed in my lifetime — came crumbling down. The fact that I got to see it, in the tiny sliver ...

Dear Gail,

What with all that, it looks ...

By Vanessa • 14 years ago

An Internal Intergenerational Dialog: On Returning to Paris and Finding My Lost Inner Twenty Year Old As I Turn Sixty

Check out this guest post from author and activist Gail Straub, who will be at the Omega Institute’s intergenerational conference that we’ll be at this fall.

This past May in celebration of my sixtieth birthday I returned to Paris where I had studied Marxism at the Sorbonne as a twenty year old college student. I thought I was returning to Paris because I loved everything about the City of Lights including her museums, churches, cafes, concerts, wine, patisseries, parks, and yes, the stubborn proud Parisians too. All this was still true as I fell head over heels in love with Paris just like I had forty years ago. But something else, something unexpected, was ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Dads, Dudes, and Doing It

If you’re in the Brooklyn area, don’t miss our intergenerational conversation in honor of Father’s Day where we’ll be exploring questions like:

How were your ideas about men and masculinity formed while growing up? How did men shape your thinking about your own identity as a woman? What is the role for men in the contemporary and future feminist movement?

It’s really meant to be a dialogue, so the more folks we can pack in for their perspective, the richer the learning. Best of all, it’s basically free (voluntary donation on the way in).
Deets:
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Saturday, June 20th, 2-4pm
Courtney Martin, Gloria Feldt, Deborah Siegel, and Kristal Brent Zook
And for those of you who ...

If you’re in the Brooklyn area, don’t miss our intergenerational conversation in honor of Father’s Day where we’ll be exploring questions like:

How were your ideas about men and masculinity formed while growing up? How did men shape ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Live Blogging: NCRW Young Women’s Caucus

I’m going to let my friend Laura Leischner, the Prevention Specialist at The Collins Center, blog this one out…

It’s a pretty informal setting with people finishing their lunch, but the caucus is going to be moderated by Kyla Bender-Baird and Lisa Rast, both of NCRW. Everyone went around and introduced themselves. There are a wide range of women in the room, from freelancers, college students to attorneys.
Lisa talks about how one of her favorite quotes is by Madeleine Albright, “There’s a special place in hell for women that don’t support other women.” She poses the question, “How can we support other women while looking out for ourselves?” A tough one indeed.
A NCRW intern Shirley raises ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Coloring in the Outlines of our Mothers’ Stories

Check out this interesting guest post by Dr. Ana Nogales, a health and human rights advocate, on the power of women’s stories, as understood through her own mother. This is one more voice to our continued exploration of generational issues, leading up to the conference this fall at the Omega Institute. We are publishing a series of guest posts as a fun way of initiating some of the speakers–who are generally new to blogging–into our exciting online community. Please make them feel welcome.
My mother never told me her whole story. She relayed pieces of it here and there, but I could tell that her pain was much greater than her measured words revealed. After marrying my father in ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Katha Pollitt on Intergenerational Caricatures in Feminism

Don’t sleep on Katha Pollitt’s great piece in the Nation on intergenerational feminism:

Media commentators love to reduce everything about women to catfights about sex, so it’s not surprising that this belittling and historically inaccurate way of looking at the women’s movement–angry prudes versus drunken sluts–has recently taken on new life, including among feminists….
The wave structure, I’m trying to say, looks historical, but actually it is used to misrepresent history by evoking ancient tropes about repressive mothers and rebellious daughters. Second wave: anti-porn; third wave: anything goes! But second wave was never all anti-porn–think of Ellen Willis, for heaven’s sake. It even gave us the propaganda term “pro-sex.” The ACLU is jampacked with feminist lawyers of a certain age. ...

Don’t sleep on Katha Pollitt’s great piece in the Nation on intergenerational feminism:

Media commentators love to reduce everything about women to catfights about sex, so it’s not surprising that this belittling and historically inaccurate way of ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Women, Power, and Roller Skates: Connecting Across the Generations

Check out this interesting guest post by Carla Goldstein, the director of the Women’s Institute at Omega, on the feminist progress within her own family. This is one more voice to our continued exploration of generational issues, leading up to the conference this fall at the Omega Institute. We are publishing a series of guest posts as a fun way of initiating some of the speakers–who are generally new to blogging–into our exciting online community. Please make them feel welcome. And don’t forget to turn in your scholarship applications! They’re due June 1st.

My day began with bringing my pouting 8-year-old daughter to school, mad because we were late again. I felt sympathetic, remembering what it was ...

By Courtney • 14 years ago

Intergenerational Feminism Online and Up High

Check out this awesome ongoing blog dialogue between Letha Dawson Scanzoni, 72, and Kimberly B. George, 27–thus the snazzy name of the blog, 72-27. They are both self-identified Christian feminists and discuss everything from labor division in the home to violence in Pakistan to chickens. Don’t miss it. A long excerpt from super smart Kimberley:

I wanted to begin this letter by letting you know that I have been thinking a great deal about that first article you linked in your last post (the BBC article that talked about women reportedly confessing the sin of pride more than men). It so happened that when I got your letter I was reading Feminist Theory and Christian Theology by Serene Jones. (Dr. ...