Mar 27
Emster comments: If you’re worried about folks questioning your sanity, how ’bout putting on some pants before to you leave the house?
Published 2010
(Average: 5.85 out of 10)
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Emster comments: If you’re worried about folks questioning your sanity, how ’bout putting on some pants before to you leave the house?
Published 2010
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March 27th, 2023 at 11:55 am
Where’s Frazetta when he is needed most.
March 27th, 2023 at 12:34 pm
I’ve never before thought of Randy Newman as a feminist songwriter:
https://youtu.be/VwD_SulAWP8
March 27th, 2023 at 12:53 pm
@fred: GSS.
March 27th, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Ron Kitaj deserved better than being squidged into the corner of this dull book.
March 27th, 2023 at 2:42 pm
Is this a book of shorts?
March 27th, 2023 at 2:47 pm
According to the cover, the following things happen in the book.
A streetwalker checks her watch. Gwyneth Paltrow and friend debate the wisdom of having a streetwalker provide the scent for a certain “This Smells Like” candle. Meanwhile, a girl kept after school watches her gym teacher grab an invisible woman by the arse. Ben Franklin, fed up with it all, decides to go fly a kite.
March 27th, 2023 at 3:08 pm
Transcript of editorial meeting, shortly before this book went to press:
“Now, this is a landmark feminist work, so I need not mention how important it is that ‘Woman on the Edge of Time’ gets the very best possible cover design and artwork. Right, sisters?”
“Of course.”
“Naturally.”
“Right.”
“Here’s the art department’s first choice of cover. Very serious, very sophisticated… yes, Brenda?”
“I feel the colors are too masculine. Too patriarchal. It should be more… gray.”
“Gray?”
“Gray. With a nondescript mark on it, so that it looks like someone dropped it on a dusty floor.”
“Okay. Any thoughts about the artwork… Melissa?”
“The art takes too much space. It should mirror the oppression that women feel under patriarchy. Could we… oppress the image a bit? Like… shrink it into a corner?”
“Good idea.”
“I agree.”
“Okay. The blurb looks fine, very oppressed, calling the woman protagonist insane… any comments?”
“No, it’s fine.”
“No changes.”
“Finally, the review quotes. We have loads of gushing quotes from other women writers like… Margaret Atwood…”
“That bitch.”
“I hate her.
“And how about…”
“No, I’d never quote her. She loves this book, but… I can’t stand her.”
“Right… how about this bland quote from United Press International?”
“Well, it doesn’t offend me.
“I’m not triggered.”
“‘An engrossing story’ it is, then. Fine! Take it to the press. Well done, sisters!”
“I can’t tell you how validated I feel after this meeting!”
“Today we took down the patriarchy! Lunch, anyone?”
March 27th, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Graphic designer “okay, I’ll just click on align upper right aaaaand done!”
March 27th, 2023 at 3:11 pm
Woman on the left is doing that little dance one does whilst waiting in the queue to the Ladies’. In the meantime, the bloke in the yellow hat is heading straight into the Gents’. And the landlord has called time, thus the title of the book.
March 27th, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Pinkshorts was looking out the window when the nuke hit.
March 27th, 2023 at 9:08 pm
What were they thinking? I mean there must be an almost limitless supply of fashion shots from the 60s. Even more if there prepared to move forward a few decades.
March 28th, 2023 at 4:02 am
Which is the woman (singular) this is about? Not Madame Arse, I hope, but fear. And why is everything squooshed into a corner? were they thinking it was going to be a non-standard sized book?
So women on the edge of time do nothing but wander aimlessly sans trou, or sit around moping?
I have been given to understand that WOTEOT have much more exciting things to do, thanks to that documentary series the BBC has been running for over 50 years. And their posteriors are covered even if only by miniskirts or furry loincloths.
@Tor: GSS!
March 28th, 2023 at 11:26 am
Yup…GSS @Tor #5 😀
March 31st, 2023 at 3:10 pm
#7 and #8 gave me a chuckle. GSS!
March 31st, 2023 at 7:10 pm
I thought this cover might be a dud for comments, but clearly I’ve underestimated the sheer cheekiness of the GSS gang.
@ARY – I had a meeting like that last week – got my eye roll exercises in…