About 40 years ago, Julia Child brought French cooking to American TV. Julia was more than 6 feet tall, sublimely obsessed with her own area of expertise, and not in the least what the general public agreed all women should look like, sound like, or act like.
We loved her. She was herself and we recognized this and we loved her.
My pal Halley is getting some flack for her praise of Girlism.* Hey, I enjoy reading Halley’s praise of thong undies, because I have as much fun watching Halley be Halley as I do watching Julia be Julia. And didn’t we feminists march so that women could be free to be the people we want to be?
In a world where women are forced to do French cooking, or wear thong undies, or (worse!) do both together–boy, I would really be in big, big trouble. But I sure don’t want a world where women who thrill to French cooking while wearing thong panties and kicking the butts of bad guys have to shut up and pretend they like something different.
*One of the funniest, sweetest, and most intelligent comments on the controversy was written by big hairy non-girl Dave Winer.
5 responses so far ↓
1 j_hendry@i... // Jul 20, 2003 at 10:21 pm
And don’t ever forget, before Julia was Julia, she was a spook.
She worked for the OSS (forerunner of the CIA) during WW2.
(see my link)
I think that counts for “kicking the butts of bad guys”, to some extent. I don’t know if she’s ever worn a thong.
2 Betsy Devine // Jul 21, 2003 at 5:36 am
On the advice of Dave Barry, I “pornolized” this page to see what would happen. Pornolized version of my final sentence: “One of the licking funniest, sweetest, and most intelligent gangbangs on the f*cking controversy was written by big hairy non-girl Dave “Superdick” Winer.” (Pardon my asterisk, but Google sends me enough fruitcakes already.)
3 Elayne Riggs // Jul 21, 2003 at 8:18 am
Thanks Jon, I had no idea! Wonder if that’s why the President is honoring her with a Medal of Freedom this year.
4 Donna Wentworth // Jul 29, 2003 at 1:17 pm
My favorite bit here: “Didn’t we feminists march so that women could be free to be the people we want to be?”
Exactly!
5 Betsy Devine: Now with even more funny ha-ha and peculiar » Happy tenth blog-birthday to Dave Winer // Apr 1, 2007 at 10:43 am
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