Yes please! You and your writing has always balanced the work, critiques, thoughts with intentional consumption and lifestyle so well. It's not to be filed under "guilty pleasure" or any crap like that. We need writing that does both, because we do both, and we know that criticism doesn't mean existing solely in a joyless land with no fun or frivolity.
Excellent essay! Just wish we could stop equating male genitalia with courage as in Max Tani's title “‘Very Few Have Balls: How American News Lost Its Nerve.” (I had the bad habit myself.) It is more often courageous women, like yourself, who are at the frontlines of speaking truth to power.
That was a quote from a source and certainly provided a very clickable headline. I think the piece is quite worthwhile, regardless. But you're right, of course: Men certainly don't have a monopoly on courage! Thank you so much for reading!
I agree- and this is now totally off topic from the post, but it's always been funny to me how language equates "having balls" with toughness when they can be injured with the slightest impact, while calling someone a "pussy" means they're weak, though they are capable of pushing out an entire human...seems like it should be the opposite!
Yes please! You and your writing has always balanced the work, critiques, thoughts with intentional consumption and lifestyle so well. It's not to be filed under "guilty pleasure" or any crap like that. We need writing that does both, because we do both, and we know that criticism doesn't mean existing solely in a joyless land with no fun or frivolity.
Thank you, Millicent! And yours! I'm very excited people are onboard with me venturing a bit further afield from food... My brain needs it!
Excellent essay! Just wish we could stop equating male genitalia with courage as in Max Tani's title “‘Very Few Have Balls: How American News Lost Its Nerve.” (I had the bad habit myself.) It is more often courageous women, like yourself, who are at the frontlines of speaking truth to power.
That was a quote from a source and certainly provided a very clickable headline. I think the piece is quite worthwhile, regardless. But you're right, of course: Men certainly don't have a monopoly on courage! Thank you so much for reading!
It is a worthwhile article, I just read it : ) Gendered (and colonized) language is so embedded in our psyches.
I agree- and this is now totally off topic from the post, but it's always been funny to me how language equates "having balls" with toughness when they can be injured with the slightest impact, while calling someone a "pussy" means they're weak, though they are capable of pushing out an entire human...seems like it should be the opposite!