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Feb. 7th, 2012 09:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gwydion* The 9th Circuit Court decided that Prop 8 was unconstitutional, finding that there was no rational reason to single out a group to take away fundamental rights. It may or may not go for an en blanc hearing. Either way, odds are, it's headed to the Supreme Court. It sounds like the legal pundits think the wording of the latest ruling is designed to court Justice Anthony Kennedy, a key swing vote. I haven't an opinion, having not read the thing yet.
* This came up elsewhere, and I haven't mentioned it in a while, so I'm re-posting it here:
The New Woman was a real life Victorian term. What happened was two trends combining. 1. There was a movement for middle and upper class women in England to become more politically aware. Some of this was the suffrage movement. Some had to do with a cruel law allowing authorities to snatch any woman off the street who looked poor off the street, and drag her past a jeering crowd of men to be held down and forcible examined for signs of vaginal irritation, and forcibly incarcerate her for up to several months in a special hospital if they found any. (It was supposed to be to stop VD, but a yeast infection, rough sex with a husband, etc. could cause irritation as well. It ruined reputations, got women fired from jobs, and led to suicides.) Some had to do with an impulse to charity and reform. 2. The typewriter got invented. At the time, it was heralded as the end of civilization because working class and lower middle class women could save up to purchase a typewriter, learn to type, and be able to make enough to support themselves without a man. It's hard to imagine from the far side of the twentieth century that the typewriter was a symbol of Victorian Women's liberation. At first, women went door to door with portable typewriters. Then they began to displace male secretaries in offices. There was a whole genre of novels based on women earning enough to divorce their husbands and *gasp* have lies of their own. The Horror! The Horror!
If you read the original Dracula, you can spot that Mina Harker is actually a New Woman. They don't call her that, but she is. 1. Is an excellent typist and knows short hand. 2. Is brighter than any of the other characters. 3. Is an active partner in the investigations and her marriage. Lucy is a more traditional 19th heroine, to be desired fought over, and for men to attempt to rescue. Mina is a strong new woman. Notice which works out better in the long run. This is part of my argument for Dracula as a subversive book for it's time.
* "The French Impotence Trials:" http://greenwick.livejournal.com/87315.html
* On "Nice Guys:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1050285.html
* Word: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/17233337812/watching-the-news-i-feel-like-im-in-high-school
* Ebay: BPAL 3 Partial bottle Lot LE and Discontinued: AREMATA-POPOA, CHESHIRE MOON, PAHOEHOE
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300661523834
* This came up elsewhere, and I haven't mentioned it in a while, so I'm re-posting it here:
The New Woman was a real life Victorian term. What happened was two trends combining. 1. There was a movement for middle and upper class women in England to become more politically aware. Some of this was the suffrage movement. Some had to do with a cruel law allowing authorities to snatch any woman off the street who looked poor off the street, and drag her past a jeering crowd of men to be held down and forcible examined for signs of vaginal irritation, and forcibly incarcerate her for up to several months in a special hospital if they found any. (It was supposed to be to stop VD, but a yeast infection, rough sex with a husband, etc. could cause irritation as well. It ruined reputations, got women fired from jobs, and led to suicides.) Some had to do with an impulse to charity and reform. 2. The typewriter got invented. At the time, it was heralded as the end of civilization because working class and lower middle class women could save up to purchase a typewriter, learn to type, and be able to make enough to support themselves without a man. It's hard to imagine from the far side of the twentieth century that the typewriter was a symbol of Victorian Women's liberation. At first, women went door to door with portable typewriters. Then they began to displace male secretaries in offices. There was a whole genre of novels based on women earning enough to divorce their husbands and *gasp* have lies of their own. The Horror! The Horror!
If you read the original Dracula, you can spot that Mina Harker is actually a New Woman. They don't call her that, but she is. 1. Is an excellent typist and knows short hand. 2. Is brighter than any of the other characters. 3. Is an active partner in the investigations and her marriage. Lucy is a more traditional 19th heroine, to be desired fought over, and for men to attempt to rescue. Mina is a strong new woman. Notice which works out better in the long run. This is part of my argument for Dracula as a subversive book for it's time.
* "The French Impotence Trials:" http://greenwick.livejournal.com/87315.html
* On "Nice Guys:" http://neo-prodigy.livejournal.com/1050285.html
* Word: http://lettersfromtitan.tumblr.com/post/17233337812/watching-the-news-i-feel-like-im-in-high-school
* Ebay: BPAL 3 Partial bottle Lot LE and Discontinued: AREMATA-POPOA, CHESHIRE MOON, PAHOEHOE
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300661523834