But as Louise Collins wrote in her article “Gossip: A Feminist Defense,” “Is gossip trivial because its subject matter, the personal, particular, and domestic, is trivial? Traditionally these aspects of life have been regarded as both ‘feminine’ and unimportant to what we are, qua moral beings.” If all talk about our lives and how we live them is gossip and trivial, what a sparse, sad realm of thought we are forced to occupy. The choices we make in our lives may not be the ivory tower ideals of existentialist thought, but that does not make them valueless.
