Comments on: tagged! Book Meme

By: charlotteotter

charlotteotter — Sat, 12 Aug 2006 07:37:17 +0000

I also loved The Time Traveller’s Wife, and I’ve just finished Suite Francaise. I thought it was great. I think the reason some of the strands don’t tie together is that she was planning to carry on with the characters in the next three books. Thanks to the Nazis, she never got the chance.

By: thinkinggirl

thinkinggirl — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 20:27:12 +0000

Chancelucky, you’ll love the Time Traveller’s Wife. It’s beautiful.

angela, thanks for popping in!

Sage – I love Roddy Doyle. I’ve read most of his work, he’s just such a favourite for me!

Meehow – funny, the topic in one of my classes today was about political activity and representation being empowering for women, and the subject of parliamentary quotas did come up. I don’t think there is anything unreasonable about that prospect at all. One of the only ways to get women into government in any sort of representative way is to deliberately set aside seats for them. By the way, if 50% of seats were set aside for women, that also means 50% of seats are rserved for men. The problem is, there are so many barriers to women getting involved in politics as a career, or in most careers for that matter, and just as many once they are there. This idea could only work if those barriers were removed. That would involve men overcoming their subtly sexist ideas that a woman simply can’t be the “best man” for the job, and understanding that a woman filling a quota is not simply a female body, but is the best candidate for the post – just as qualified as the men, but due to gender discrimination, has not been presented with the equal opportunities to be there in the past. The idea that people should only make it on merit, and that since women (and other groups) AREN’T visibly represented means they don’t merit the position, is faulty. Individualistic ideologies neglect to see that not everyone is allowed to play the game in the first place. We don’t live in an equal world.

No, I don’t care much for Alanis. She’s ok I guess, but after her first solo album, I didn’t like her follow-ups.

By: Sage

Sage — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 19:03:06 +0000

Thinking girl – I love Roddy Doyle too! How could I forget.

Angel – Possessing the Secret of Joy is another one I’ve read a few times. I even read excerpts to my classes when it suits.

By: Angela

Angela — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 17:23:09 +0000

Just stumbled onto your sight from another and saw that you were tagged with the same theme as I was — didn’t realize it was so prominent! My answers are here .

I enjoy your topics, I will definitely add you to my blog subscriptions!

By: meehow

meehow — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:21:10 +0000

oh my answers to the quiz

1. Brave New world
2. again Brave New World
3. Future Shock
4. Catch 22
5. Zahir by Paolo Coelho
6. Do It Yoursef: A Decent Life
7. Das Kapital
8. Fanny Hill
9. LOve in the Times of Cholera

By: meehow

meehow — Fri, 11 Aug 2006 10:15:07 +0000

well, hi, my name’s michal, which is the Polish equvalent of Michael (it’s pronounced as meehow). I found your blog by sheer accident looking for FGC in the Google browser. As a matter of fact, I have pretty traumatic memories connected with philosophy – I had several lectures to get a credit during my MA studies. We all were fresh and the lecturer made us read Kant, Descartes, Spinoza, Levinas or Lyotard without much preparation… Anyway, I somehow survived it … As far as feminism is concerned, I do advocate women’s roghts, but there have been some legislation proposals in my country that made me really furious. One of them was the idea that there should be an equal representaion of both sexes in the parliament or in every occupation, which, in my humble opinion, are slightly unreasonable. Oh, I also love Neruda… (Here I love you… La Cancion Desperada are my favourites). I like your blog too. Do you like Alanis Morisette?