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Women: Is there nothing they can't do?
By adamg on Tue, 01/06/2009 - 10:09am
The Globe's gone through a lot of changes over the past couple of years, but one thing remains a constant on Morrissey Boulevard: A fixation on stories about the amazing things women can do these days. Like, oh, become tattoo artists. Lissa Harris has started a blog to chronicle all these "Women Do" stories:
... Far from having sprung fully formed from a fit of pique this afternoon, the Women Do Project has been underway for some years--since at least 2006, when I was toiling in the swamps of the Weekly Dig's Media Farm. There, it came to my attention one day that women go bowling. Amazed by this, I did a little poking around, and discovered that women also shoot guns and DJ. Yea, they even blog. There seemed no end to the stuff Globe reporters would uncover about these preternaturally accomplished she-beings. ...
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Comments
I Love Lissa Harris
One of the true bright spots in the Boston media firmament.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
shucks.
Oh, Suldog, I love you too. With all the love in my black, black heart. If only for this.
If all these women are out
If all these women are out shooting guns and bowling who is cooking my dinner? Thats a story the globe needs to cover!
Of course I was being sarcastic, I hope all the fembots out there ready to flame me realize that.
Simple answer
Look in the mirror! :-P
I actually really like to
I actually really like to cook (baking, not so much) if I can just find someone who loves to clean dishes there will be a match made in heaven.
Ah yes, the dog walking on
Ah yes, the dog walking on hind legs. Without the Globe, how would we know?
can do attitude
Women CAN blog, wow i never knew the capabilities of my body and mind. Maybe now I can try to live up!
So this is what happens
... when you let women touch computers.
Was she killed by a
Was she killed by a computer?
Of course not
A computer bug got her.
Playing devil's advocate
One might ask:
Your telling me that its
Your telling me that its possible that the editors of the Boston Globe are sitting around the news room looking at an ampty table just wishing and hoping that the mail will come and deliver them a press release about a unity pot luck breakfast in Mattapan or a protest over something smelly in Cambridge??? I have a feeling that the Globe gets plenty of press releases on a daily basis to fill 25 newspapers a day, and that is not an excuse for a stupid inane story.
i am so busted
Totally, totally busted.
I think I'll keep blogging though.
Understandable
I hear it's a nice view from an august perch this time of year. ;)