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This Woman’s History Month:
Low Grade Toxic Masculinity

Being a woman my whole life… well, most of it and being a girl the rest of the time… I thought I’d write a little about my experiences as a woman this Women’s History Month. It seems that this is a topic that has more of widespread appeal these days. Read more…


War, Brotherhood, and Women (a way-late movie review and the start of a sociological commentary)

What are movies if not a means to compel a viewer–to thoughts and feelings… to carry them within the journey of a character, a storyline so that they may glean something from it.  Whether it be a laugh, an escape, or–my favorite–something much bigger.  Something new.  Different.  Something that can Read more…


Stanley Kowalski

Taking the LIRR’s Babylon line towards Atlantic Terminal on a weekday morning and you may end up in one of the train cars that platform at Boland’s Landing, an employees-only station for the men of the Morris Park maintenance facility in Queens. The cars who make this stop are filled Read more…


Men & Other Generalizations

I have long been fascinated by men. Sure, as a woman, aren’t we all? They’re are from Mars, right? A whole other type of human being. Biologically speaking, of course we know there are those different parts but it’s more than that. The Y chromosome has its function. Make a Read more…


Annual Repost: Perhaps Labor Day Doesn’t Come From a Store. Perhaps Labor Day means a bit more.

As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. Read more…


I’ve been thinking about…

Sailors. Probably because I’m reading Thomas Pynchon’s V. (After two weeks I am on page 38, which means in about 28 more weeks I should be finished. But I don’t want to finish it really. I kind of want to stay there. Each paragraph merits more research: sailor dialect, slang, Read more…


Perhaps Labor Day doesn’t come from a store. Perhaps Labor Day means a little bit more.

As the Industrial Revolution took hold of the nation, the average American in the late 1800s worked 12-hour days, seven days a week in order to make a basic living. Children were also working, as they provided cheap labor to employers and laws against child labor were not strongly enforced. Read more…