Fun with Art: Two Lovers
In my last movie review, I applauded the writers (Lynn Barber and Nick Hornby) behind An Education for not rehashing the same old story of a woman getting Bovarized for pursuing an ill-advised romance. (Getting Bovarized is a term I’m doing my best to popularize. It means to gravely punish a fictional character for fulfilling [...]
… so shut up and stop whining about your stupid foreskin
A recent reader of one of my blogs agreed with my position against male circumcision but objected to any comparison between the male foreskin and the clitoris, explaining that women without a clitoris couldn’t have an orgasm, where a man without a foreskin can. I myself thought this to be true six months ago, so [...]
Fun with Art: An Education
Any time I see a movie or read a story where a woman is enjoying sex or having a fun time in an ill-advised relationship, my mind reflexively jumps an hour / a hundred pages ahead in the plot… “I wonder what hideous misfortune the writer has planned for her?! Is she going to get [...]
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