The answer, my friends, is patriarchy. This according to a piece in The New Yorker by Emily Nussbaum, and I can’t say she’s wrong. In her review of Game of…
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My husband might have been one of the last people on the planet with a flip phone. I was right behind him with a phone that didn’t flip, but didn’t…
As a big fan of the NFL, I cannot quite resist the call of the Combine, the annual celebration of freakish athletic ability and the source of the intimate information…
I have a shocking confession to make. When Obama won the election in 2008, I made a conscious decision to tune out. After months of checking the internet compulsively for…
I would hardly claim to be a media critic, and I don’t write much about the media on this blog. But because my NFL football watching has been repeatedly disturbed…
Inspired by Laurie’s exploration of the connection between poems and musical lyrics at What She Read, and because it’s National Poetry Month, I decided to add a new feature. Do…
Lew and Ben Snowden, perhaps the authors of “Dixie” Sooner or later, I was bound to get to a topic of infinite complexity and fascination for me, the American South….
It is not great revelation to say that I had a huge crush on David Duchovny during The X Files days. Nor is it particularly unique. Yet, I was living…
I’m a woman with a Ph.D. in sociology and I love the NFL. I realize that makes me a fairly small demographic and so the commissioner, the networks, ESPN and…
Two episodes in, and here’s my initial reactions. First, much like the last season of Buffy, I think there are too many characters, and even worse than the last season…
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