February is being a crueler month
Feb. 4th, 2006 08:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sff_corgi_ljOf course, nearly everyone's heard that Coretta Scott King has died, after a stroke and heart attack several months previously; and apparently a development of ovarian cancer, kept private by the family. She is lying in state at the Georgia state capitol, both the first woman and first Afro-American to be according the honour.
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And Wendy Wasserstein has seen frequent mention in my Flist. She had a voice for the women (and yes, some men I'm sure) who were still trying to sort out the possibilities the Women's Movement had opened up for them.
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What you might not have known is that Teresa E. Victor died recently as well, not this month, but back on December 29th. Her news wouldn't necessarily have spread as quickly, but are there any of the older Trek-fen who've read The Making of Star Trek and The Making of 'The Trouble With Tribbles' and all those other wonderful books which came out in that long wait before Paramount decided to notice they actually had living Terran/American mythology on their hands who don't remember the story of Teresa's pointed ears?
In order to show Leonard how much she appreciated working for him, she borrowed a pair of his Spock ears from the makeup department, but because they weren't cast to fit her, had to use extra-strong glue to get them to stay in place. What she didn't anticipate was how much this would hurt, from the mis-fit, natural skin motion and delicate tissue getting tugged on. By the time she got to some party event the cast and staff were all attending, she was nearly in tears. She went up to Leonard, pulled her hair back (because it had been hiding the ears a little too efficiently) dramatically and cried out, 'Look what I did for you!' (She did finally get the ears off.) She was with him a long time, through the beginnings of the fandom, and got bit parts/cameos in more than one Trek production.
She was one of Ours, in a way.
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Hopefully-lastly, because we can only take these quasi-distant shocks and losses so many at a time, Betty Friedan has died, as![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
gramarye1971 and yendi had noted earlier today. She was one of the leading feminists whom the Establishment, proving they weren't even within shouting distance of the point, liked to mock for her looks, as if only women who weren't Barbie-doll pretty were interested in being treated as 'people'. She was radical, in the sense of she struck at the root of the problem and provided an anchor for a whole movement of social change, and in co-founding the National Organization for Women, she provided a legacy.
You're invited to share your thoughts: Tell us how Betty Friedan and feminism have impacted your life at MsMagazine.com
And Wendy Wasserstein has seen frequent mention in my Flist. She had a voice for the women (and yes, some men I'm sure) who were still trying to sort out the possibilities the Women's Movement had opened up for them.
What you might not have known is that Teresa E. Victor died recently as well, not this month, but back on December 29th. Her news wouldn't necessarily have spread as quickly, but are there any of the older Trek-fen who've read The Making of Star Trek and The Making of 'The Trouble With Tribbles' and all those other wonderful books which came out in that long wait before Paramount decided to notice they actually had living Terran/American mythology on their hands who don't remember the story of Teresa's pointed ears?
In order to show Leonard how much she appreciated working for him, she borrowed a pair of his Spock ears from the makeup department, but because they weren't cast to fit her, had to use extra-strong glue to get them to stay in place. What she didn't anticipate was how much this would hurt, from the mis-fit, natural skin motion and delicate tissue getting tugged on. By the time she got to some party event the cast and staff were all attending, she was nearly in tears. She went up to Leonard, pulled her hair back (because it had been hiding the ears a little too efficiently) dramatically and cried out, 'Look what I did for you!' (She did finally get the ears off.) She was with him a long time, through the beginnings of the fandom, and got bit parts/cameos in more than one Trek production.
She was one of Ours, in a way.
Hopefully-lastly, because we can only take these quasi-distant shocks and losses so many at a time, Betty Friedan has died, as
gramarye1971 and yendi had noted earlier today. She was one of the leading feminists whom the Establishment, proving they weren't even within shouting distance of the point, liked to mock for her looks, as if only women who weren't Barbie-doll pretty were interested in being treated as 'people'. She was radical, in the sense of she struck at the root of the problem and provided an anchor for a whole movement of social change, and in co-founding the National Organization for Women, she provided a legacy.You're invited to share your thoughts: Tell us how Betty Friedan and feminism have impacted your life at MsMagazine.com
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Date: 2006-02-05 03:55 pm (UTC)You know, I'm honestly starting to feel like I just can't take much more of this. And by "this," I mean "all of it." GAH.
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Date: 2006-02-05 10:59 pm (UTC)We do need something to look forward to... I mean, not just
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Date: 2006-02-06 01:16 pm (UTC)The more I think about it, though, the more I feel we'll probably have to create something for everybody to look forward to. There's no shortage of fabulous in LJ world. Surely we could do something. Must ponder this.