Comments on: Sing It, Sister!

By: funnyface

funnyface — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:56:30 +0000

I’m surprised the sexist reviewer didn’t go all the way and insist on calling her by her given first name, MARY Flannery O’Connor.

Also, I may or may not have once baked FOC a birthday cake and dressed in costume as one of her characters with a group of my nerdy nerdy friends.

By: HanaMaru

HanaMaru — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 06:11:22 +0000

Awesome. I hope it makes a change.

By: DangerMouse

DangerMouse — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:11:39 +0000

Oh snap.

By: Nepenthe

Nepenthe — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 06:58:10 +0000

This is how I noticed sexism for the first time. (What can I say, I’m bad at taking social cues.) I read all of Michael Crichton’s books in middle school, noticing that male characters were addressed as “Smith” and “Paulson” while female characters were “Amy” or “Sarah”. I was eleven and puzzled.

By: BeckySharper

BeckySharper — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:05:36 +0000

Yes, the same. Not afraid to bite the hand that feeds her!

By: PhDork

PhDork — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 00:45:12 +0000

This is The New Yorker's dance critic, yes? Either way: rock on, Ms. Acocella.