Sometimes movie-making happens like clockwork; other times, like a car accident.
Every medium - oral, written, print, and now electronic - has its own associated thought patterns and mind sets.
Feminism has fought no wars. . . killed no opponents. . . set up no concentration camps. . . starved no enemies. . . practiced no cruelty. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety in the streets. . . for reforms in the law.
Language helps form the limits of our reality.
The talkativeness of women has been gauged in comparison not with men but with silence. Women have not been judged on the grounds of whether they talk more than men, but of whether they talk more than silent women.
Language is not neutral. It is not merely a vehicle which carries ideas. It is itself a shaper of ideas.
This monopoly over language is one of the means by which males have ensured their own primacy, and consequently have ensured the invisibility or 'other' nature of females.
I like boxing movies. One of the hardest things for me to watch as far as boxing films, is the boxing. The actual boxing usually sucks
Most start-up companies fail and it is smart public policy to help entrepreneurs increase their odds of succeeding. But, the biggest loss to our economy is not all the start-ups that didn't make it: It's the ones that might have been created but weren't.
My question is "when did other people give up the idea of being a poet?" You know, when we are kids we make up things, we write, and for me the puzzle is not that some people are still writing, the real question is why did the other people stop?
Juvenile delinquency serves many purposes, including that of providing sadistic adults with fantasies suited to their special tastes.