tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post1822246138826342067..comments2024-03-23T08:42:52.963-05:00Comments on Wait! I Have a Blog?!: Girl, Please! (A return to chick & dick lit)Kathleenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-35993952072108972912010-03-29T09:15:19.768-05:002010-03-29T09:15:19.768-05:00Nene, thanks so much for the comment!
My husband ...Nene, thanks so much for the comment!<br /><br />My husband is also from a "machismo" culture in Cuba and was raised by his mother (father left behind, alas, and died before he could get out), and we find all the American culture "identities" do not apply for him, either.<br /><br />The Vietnam draft bypassed him, a sort of miracle, and he is a pacifist in his dreams, re-dreaming any dream where he has had to kill someone so that there is another solution. (And Nene was one of his nicknames growing up.)<br /><br />Indeed, who are you? Who am I?<br /><br />Will you be participating in the Woman Made Gallery exhibit?!Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-801850990889396522010-03-29T09:09:24.775-05:002010-03-29T09:09:24.775-05:00In reference to 'chick lit' and 'dick ...In reference to 'chick lit' and 'dick lit' paradyms or categories due to explications by influences of 'social norms'. I was born in Mexico, a culture fraught with 'machismo' yet I was brought up by single parent 'mamasita' which causes me to be defined outside the 'norm'; A product of Vietnam draft, I fight at a drop of a hat then cry because I hurt someone. I read mostly contemporary 'non-fiction' a lot of war and battle bio's but love to read sensitive male writers, language based stylist writers like<br />Pat Conroy and Miquel de Uno Muno, Kierkegaard, etc., who am I?Marcoantonio Arellano (Nene)https://www.blogger.com/profile/10713672589582754484noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-43796765358214717392010-03-20T22:52:34.304-05:002010-03-20T22:52:34.304-05:00Kathleen: "Sophie's Choice" is an op...Kathleen: "Sophie's Choice" is an opera when I read it, but I love "Turandot." That is all glory. I saw Turnadot on cd and I loved it.Mike Petersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-69722317101698843562010-03-18T11:02:35.365-05:002010-03-18T11:02:35.365-05:00Yes! It is hilarious. Also you should see the op...Yes! It is hilarious. Also you should see the opera of Sophie's Choice and tell us about it.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-30081939385560603052010-03-18T09:42:28.205-05:002010-03-18T09:42:28.205-05:00Kathleen: no. Do you think I should see it? Just...Kathleen: no. Do you think I should see it? Just to see if it knows all the ways to do it?Mike Petersonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-69078117018640432332010-03-13T17:21:38.620-06:002010-03-13T17:21:38.620-06:00Mike! Have you seen the film How to Lose Friends ...Mike! Have you seen the film How to Lose Friends and Alienate People?!<br /><br />I love the title. It is very funny, with Simon Pegg, etc., and has nothing to do with this blog entry.Kathleenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06559881249054540947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2276911630325008276.post-2681926612424046062010-03-13T17:19:23.688-06:002010-03-13T17:19:23.688-06:00Kathleen: remember the story that Hemingway said w...Kathleen: remember the story that Hemingway said was his best? "For sale: baby shoes, never worn." No doubt his machismo is based in childhood. If gender is a performance then making it an issue of your art (whether in Hemingway or Atwood) is lousy art. In "The Handmaid's Tale" what is stunning is Atwood's observation that the boyfriend was happy that his girlfriend had to rely on him financially when the government took away a woman's right to have a bank account. Nonetheless, I find gendered writing by either sex obnoxious.Mike Petersonnoreply@blogger.com