Comments on: More on Self-Appointment http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/ In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 11:34:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: liza http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-38362 liza Thu, 30 Mar 2006 15:29:53 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-38362 what the! Lauren, Jill, please delete that trackback ... I have no idea how that got there. as to the Frey thing ... I'm fascinated by this whole "betrayal" drama. Why don't people feel betrayed by the falseness of reality TV but with a book like this is different? It's because people who think of themselves as smart and cool are outraged not by the lie but by the fact they got snookered? I think Frey is not the issue. Snobbery is. what the! Lauren, Jill, please delete that trackback … I have no idea how that got there.

as to the Frey thing … I’m fascinated by this whole “betrayal” drama. Why don’t people feel betrayed by the falseness of reality TV but with a book like this is different? It’s because people who think of themselves as smart and cool are outraged not by the lie but by the fact they got snookered? I think Frey is not the issue. Snobbery is.

]]> By: culturekitchen http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-38355 culturekitchen Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:53:47 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-38355 <strong>I'm not hating. I'm just challenging.</strong> Sometime yesterday or the day before I wrote a post called Cry me a river, a megarant that overtook me like a volcanic eruption and ended up after I read black Blackademic : I am this close, in particular, this bit : we are being linked and and that is g I’m not hating. I’m just challenging.

Sometime yesterday or the day before I wrote a post called Cry me a river, a megarant that overtook me like a volcanic eruption and ended up after I read black Blackademic : I am this close, in particular, this bit :
we are being linked and and that is g

]]> By: zuzu http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37904 zuzu Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:17:46 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37904 It is, but it isn't enough to just admit that you were wrong; one of the twelve steps is to make amends to those you've hurt. It is, but it isn’t enough to just admit that you were wrong; one of the twelve steps is to make amends to those you’ve hurt.

]]> By: Erin M http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37899 Erin M Tue, 28 Mar 2006 04:06:10 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37899 Isn't AA built around faith? I'm not an alum myself, but I hear that it works pretty well for a lot of people. Isn’t AA built around faith? I’m not an alum myself, but I hear that it works pretty well for a lot of people.

]]> By: zuzu http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37869 zuzu Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:34:45 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37869 Confession doesn't do much if you're not willing to do the penance. Frey's still in the booth, enjoying shocking the priest. Confession doesn’t do much if you’re not willing to do the penance. Frey’s still in the booth, enjoying shocking the priest.

]]> By: randomliberal/Robert http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37868 randomliberal/Robert Tue, 28 Mar 2006 02:34:01 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37868 Ms. King may not necessarily be talking about faith in a deity or a religion. She may be just be using faith as a very general term: faith in other people, faith in yourself. Ms. King may not necessarily be talking about faith in a deity or a religion. She may be just be using faith as a very general term: faith in other people, faith in yourself.

]]> By: Joe http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37838 Joe Tue, 28 Mar 2006 00:57:37 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37838 I'm all for honesty and integrity, but faith? That doesn't really seem like a way to "beat" addiction, it's just more false hope. I’m all for honesty and integrity, but faith? That doesn’t really seem like a way to “beat” addiction, it’s just more false hope.

]]> By: laurie toby edison http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37828 laurie toby edison Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:23:08 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2006/03/27/more-on-self-appointment/#comment-37828 I agree with you and Heather King. But too many readers would rather wallow in the "romantic" bragging of alcohlic sins then read about the realities of recovery. Frey sounds like he is in the long tradition of male "hardboiled" fantasy. I agree with you and Heather King.

But too many readers would rather wallow in the “romantic” bragging of alcohlic sins then read about the realities of recovery. Frey sounds like he is in the long tradition of male “hardboiled” fantasy.

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