This is the week where I need to get a bunch of stuff don...
This is the week where I need to get a bunch of stuff done. Take Tasha for her vet check-up, take the Prius for its car check-up, make doctor appointments for me. I've pretty much broken down and decided to go ahead and get an eye exam for new glasses, even though I can't afford new glasses. (I got some last year, but the eye doctor I'm not going to anymore changed my prescription and I can't see, and it's getting worse, and our insurance won't cover a new pair until next year.) I'm getting really tired of not being able to see. I think if I can just get new lenses and have them put into the old frames, that will be cheaper.
There's a quote from Without Lying Down, where one of women writer/directors was talking about Rudolph Valentino, and his trademark intense stare. She said he had terrible eyesight and he wasn't trying to seduce you, he was just trying to see who you were. That's how I've felt lately.
Kameron Hurley linked to: Lilith Saintcrow: REVIEW: The Gift of Fear, Or, Figure Out Who's REALLY Going To Kill You I've heard about this book before and seen the author talk about it, and his experiences with helping stalking victims.
These are female problems. As de Becker himself points out, there's a basic rift in our society: at bottom men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them. Women are also socialized to make us good victims, another thing de Becker deconstructs. We're taught to play nice, get along, make someone feel better, let someone down easy. Even if we do feel uneasy, or if our intuition tells us something is off, we'll play along just to be nice.
Writer Beware: A Warning about First One Publishing's Writing Contest
There's a quote from Without Lying Down, where one of women writer/directors was talking about Rudolph Valentino, and his trademark intense stare. She said he had terrible eyesight and he wasn't trying to seduce you, he was just trying to see who you were. That's how I've felt lately.
Kameron Hurley linked to: Lilith Saintcrow: REVIEW: The Gift of Fear, Or, Figure Out Who's REALLY Going To Kill You I've heard about this book before and seen the author talk about it, and his experiences with helping stalking victims.
These are female problems. As de Becker himself points out, there's a basic rift in our society: at bottom men are afraid women will laugh at them, women are afraid men will kill them. Women are also socialized to make us good victims, another thing de Becker deconstructs. We're taught to play nice, get along, make someone feel better, let someone down easy. Even if we do feel uneasy, or if our intuition tells us something is off, we'll play along just to be nice.
Writer Beware: A Warning about First One Publishing's Writing Contest
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