Ana’s Comments (group member since Jan 08, 2016)

Ana’s comments from the Our Shared Shelf group.

I probably should refrain myself from signing up for MOARRRR stuff...but edX courses are amazing. Well, at least the ones I've tried out / completed. Thanks a lot!

Yay!! So far, all three books have been new to me, which is great. The more new stuff I read, the more I'll be introduced to! Looking forward to finding it.

I thought the media reaction was so ridiculous. 'ERMAGERRRD Emma Watson talks about...!' Ugh, people, grow up already. Personally, it came as a surprise to me that the company in charge edited it out...but as you say, this was surely one of the reasons. Because grown-ups still get all silly and excited when female sexuality is put on the table, let alone solo stuff, gasp. The horror.

Yeah, as I mentioned before, one should just apply their own discretion. When I was a child, I was told the shelves in the library that I was not allowed to browse without an adult, and there was a minimum degree of supervising involved to ensure that whenever I read something for adults, it wasn't too much for me. So maybe just the online version of that? Reading a blurb or the synopsis should be enough to know whether it's the right book for you or your child. :)

Yo acabo de leer esto en El País. Cinco años parecen no bastar para determinar la presunción de inocencia de este buen señor...

http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2016/02/2...

Hmmmm. AFAIK it took foreverrrr to upload this one already because YouTube sucks, but I'll ask. Otherwise, I guess we could tell people what the edited bit was about. Plenty of references in the media, though.

I'm afraid the bit you mention was edited out in order to make it, uhhh, family-friendly, so to say, Ashwin. :)

Great to have a video! :) Also, for non-native English speakers, we're working on a transcription already so that we can look into translating the video into at least a couple of languages shortly. :)

Maybe this is TMI, but I remember having such a hard time getting used to wearing a bra. In fact, I didn't start immediately, as some of my family vacation pics prove. Eleven, maybe twelve years old, still wearing mostly kiddie one-piece swimsuits or a bottom only. It was the last summer I would wear those and when I look at the pictures it's a weird mix of feelings. The girl in those photos is still clearly unaware of everything, but looks somewhat awkward already. I remember being so tall and still mostly skinny but feeling so out of place sometimes, and then the first reminders to walk straight, to mind my step, to pay attention to the changes that were taking place in my body. If only my mind had joined for the change back then! It's weird when your body is leaving childhood but your mind is still firmly there.
I was also twelve when I sprained my ankle and had to wear a plaster cast for a while. Apparently that messed in some weird way with my legs and so, when I finally got rid of the cast, it was decided that I had to start waxing my legs. You just take some things for granted, right? Small things at first, medium then big ones, and suddenly you are not a child anymore, but a young woman.

Wow, thanks for sharing these, Kenzie.

Some of them I liked better than others. Or perhaps I just understood the underlying message better? I particularly liked the one when all the post-its are all over her body and pointing at her vulva.

It always shocks me to realise just how complex our relation with our own body is. I'm not even talking women only here. We often rebel against our bodies, despise them, punish them, feel awkward about them so many times, yet they serve as our vessels, our foundations. Without our bodies, what would we be? Nothing but an idea, at best.

¡Hola a todos!

Pensé que sería útil contar con este hilo para dejar aquí noticias que estén relacionadas de alguna manera con el feminismo, con asuntos de la mujer o, desgraciadamente, con la violencia y discriminación, de forma que todos podamos debatir, comentar y estar un poco más al día.

Creo que podemos reunirnos todos aquí, sin necesidad de separarnos por países o regiones, con el español como único hilo conductor y, tal vez, con el mundo hispano como escenario. De todos modos, libertad absoluta para poner enlaces relativos a otros países o en otros idiomas, aunque la discusión sea en español.

Intentaré poner un par de enlaces ahora después; mientras, espero los vuestros. :) ¡Un saludo!

This is sort of related to the take OSS to your library proposal, right? :D Sounds good! Handing out copies of the book might be more difficult though!

¡Hola a todas!

He tenido un domingo de diccionario, jaja. Aplatanada total...¡lo único que he hecho ha sido avanzar con "El color púrpura", que han sido semanas atascada por no poder cogerlo!

Por ahora el libro me está gustando bastante. Lo he comentado en otros hilos y no sé si en este también, pero no me importa repetirlo; creo que ha sido una excelente elección para el segundo mes de OSS. Como Nat ha comentado arriba, es un título que contiene muchos temas y cuestiones, pero lo hace en un formato que facilita enormemente la lectura y reflexión sobre los mismos.
(view spoiler)[Estoy en el momento en el que Celie y Shug marchan a Tennessee tras la revelación de que Mr. ha estado escondiendo las cartas de Nettie a la primera. Coincido contigo en que la escena en que Celie anuncia que se marcha fue muy interesante. En ella observas que aunque el cambio que se ha producido no ha sido suficiente para salvar a las mujeres de la familia de todas sus desdichas, estamos observando una reunión en la que esas mujeres son claramente más fuertes que los hombres y, en última instancia, logran imponerse. Los hombres son personajes crueles, embrutecidos; en el mejor de los casos, tenían cierto potencial pero carecían de la fuerza o la inteligencia emocional suficiente para cambiar sus vidas. Mr., por ejemplo. Quería a Shug y junto a ella era distinto, pero no supo estar a la altura de ese sentimiento y acabó convirtiéndose en una sombra de lo que podía haber sido. Su hijo, Harpo. Harpo comienza mostrando igualmente trazas de poder ser alguien distinto para Sofía, pero al final puede con él la misma falta de cultura, la misma debilidad de espíritu, la misma pobreza mental.
Algo que me gusta del libro es que no se ofrece explicación ni proceso de aceptación ninguna para la homosexualidad de Celie ni la aparente bisexualidad de Shug. La primera se aferra al amor que le ofrece la que durante mucho tiempo fue una presencia casi divina para ella; la segunda incorpora a Celie a su vida sin planteárselo. (hide spoiler)]

Well, things like this make you think that maybe not all is lost, right? So generous!

Yeah, totes like the British Royal Guard, only with a side of sass, hahaha!

Dineke wrote: "Hi all, I am in Zeist next to Utrecht. I'm afraid I can't quite follow whether a decision has been made to meet or not and where but I'd love to meet some people as well!"

OK sorry because I am not based in the Netherlands at all (not that I wouldn't love to, that's why I creeped here, haha), but OMG Zeist, I was there in the summer of 2012 for a Dutch course. Well, like half an hour away by bike, in Woudschoten. I loved it so much. Utrecht, too. Well, I just love the Netherlands, stat.

PS + more creeping: Ghent and Antwerp too. I would so live in Ghent. Gosh, I need to get my butt back in the Dutch/Flemish-speaking world someday soon.

Please do not trust me to get anything tonight, haha, I will be grateful to be enlightened.

Also, I looked for that She Wee thing. I would feel so damn insecure and awkward. I would be so scared to pee my pants. No.

It's funny that I start this thread without being a Brit myself, haha, but this just popped up in my Facebook feed:

New Women’s Political Party in Britain Demands Faster Equality

...Thoughts? :)

Can you tell I had an exam today and my brain is still fried? Yeah, yeah you can. LOL.

"Throw in a little f*ck", oh my goodness, I want to know the meaning of this immediately to add it to my slang list.