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“You all know me. Know what I do for a living…”

Read that in your best Robert-Shaw-as-Quint-in-Jaws voice (if you haven’t seen Jaws, stop reading this website and find a way to watch it right away.  Best movie ever, even if there is only one female character in it and she gets about ten lines.), and picture me sitting cynically at the back of the Town Hall meeting, knowing that sooner or later, if the mayor wants that shark dead, he’ll have to come to me–yeah, this metaphor has completely gotten away from me.  I have no idea who the mayor is, what the shark is, or what this meeting is about.

But I’m blogging here now.  I’ll do my best to be interesting, if probably not the most frequently posting blogger.

I always swore I’d never blog.  Famous last words.


26 thoughts on “You all know me. Know what I do for a living…”

  1. EG, I think you know how much I respect and admire you — as a writer, as a person, and as a valued friend. So I really look forward to reading what you write!

    1. EG mentioned this here at least once, so I don’t believe I’m giving anything away: think of a famous Jewish anarchist.

      1. Woman? Famous, among many other things, for what’s actually a misquotation about revolutions and dancing?

        Do you need any more hints? Would you like to call a friend or ask the audience?

        1. Hey now, I’m sure Emma Goldstein was a pro at Dance Dance Revolution, so I don’t think I need to buy a vowel. What did I do to deserve this abuse?

  2. Many thanks for the good wishes! I’ll, uh, do my best to be worthy of them (the original draft of this sentence said “I’ll do my best not to fuck up too badly,” and then I thought that was unnecessarily pessimistic and wrote the other, and then I remembered that I am unnecessarily pessimistic and added this).

    I don’t really have a general program for posting–I have the next few topics I’m going to write about lined up in my head, but they vary from “political issues I think we need to be paying attention to” to “personal concerns I want to take a feminist lens to” with considerable overlap, so we’ll just see how it goes. If I really lose the thread completely, I might start talking about fountain pens and punk rock, because I love them both.

    1. Well, if you’re qualified to write novels ‘n stuff, you’re probably qualified to write for the oldest U.S. feminist blog in history. We look forward to your insights into why women deserve personhood more than corporations or embryos. 🙂

  3. years of lurking — many congrats to you EG, there’s a post of yours I copied down and have sent around to various folks at various times

    the post is here and the specific part is this:

    “We’re reading nineteenth-century British children’s literature, and we’re going to encounter lots of racism, and I don’t want to hear excuses like ‘that’s the way it was back then’ or ‘they were just ignorant.’ They were racist, and we’ll be discussing that.”

    Anyway — glad you’re gonna be blogging here and thanks for the work you’ve already done in being such an insightful commenter.

  4. Yay! Congratulations!!!!!!!

    Finally a Feministe writer named after my favorite food (albeit spelled wrong, no ‘G at the end.)

    In all serious, it will be great to have a contributor who also participated vociferously in the comment section (I’m not saying Caperton and tigtog don’t, just not to the extent of EG)

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