Hooray for Fio--she's back in the saddle again. Yes, she picked up her notebook and went over the first three chapters of Phillipa's story yesterday, and today she'll review three more chapters. It's been a long time coming and feels so good!
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Fiorella attended a little get-together of about six neighborhood ladies last week where the hostess mentioned that Fio is a writer, igniting interest which Fio hopes will leads to sales. Word of mouth is still the best advertiser there is. Thank you, Kathy.
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Fio's going to get on her bandwagon now and complain about men's fiction--thrillers--being considered respectable and women's fiction--romances--being snickered at. It's sexism, plain and simple.
Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sexism. Show all posts
Friday, November 4, 2016
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Donald, Donald, Donald
Donald Trump is trying to buy the presidency, and everyone knows it's for sale, that the candidate with the bigger war chest wins. Why else is Fio's email inbox overflowing with pleas for donations?
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The one good thing Fiorella can say about The Donald is that he's running on his own dime. But that also means he doesn't have to answer to anybody. Yes, he's free to bash anybody he wants to--and he does. Brown people, women people, hero people.
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A lot of people comment about his hair, but Fio is more concerned about what doesn't lie under it.
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The one good thing Fiorella can say about The Donald is that he's running on his own dime. But that also means he doesn't have to answer to anybody. Yes, he's free to bash anybody he wants to--and he does. Brown people, women people, hero people.
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A lot of people comment about his hair, but Fio is more concerned about what doesn't lie under it.
Saturday, July 7, 2012
Self-perception
Whenever Fiorella encounters people she knows, the women realize she looks different and gather around, asking her all about her facelift. The men don't notice anything, or, if they do, can't figure out what's different. One of them even asked Fio if she was wearing new clothes.
Fio adheres to the theory that women's feelings of self-worth are tied up with their appearance. Like stage actors, we advertise ourselves with how we look--dress our parts, so to speak--and nothing represents us as much as our faces which, as we age, can be deceiving.
Now, Fio knows we shouldn't judge ourselves by outward appearances, that we should go more than skin deep, that she's being sexist, etc., but she is also a child of her culture, and all she can say is I HAVE MY TRUE SELF BACK AGAIN!
Fio adheres to the theory that women's feelings of self-worth are tied up with their appearance. Like stage actors, we advertise ourselves with how we look--dress our parts, so to speak--and nothing represents us as much as our faces which, as we age, can be deceiving.
Now, Fio knows we shouldn't judge ourselves by outward appearances, that we should go more than skin deep, that she's being sexist, etc., but she is also a child of her culture, and all she can say is I HAVE MY TRUE SELF BACK AGAIN!
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