Food for the belly, food for thought.

So I bought some supplies for cooking! And also some Nutella, which is a yummy chocolate spread and is basically a desert, though I thought it would be more like peanut butter. I read an article called "Doing Gender" that struck me as a bit out-of-date in its assumptions about gender politics and balance of power in the workplace. It said that female physicians were excluded from clinical activities and that a lady engineer was encouraged not to fly in the plane she designed and throw a party for her colleagues. But the thing is, no one says girls shouldn't party any more, guys in a profession get in big trouble if they do anything that smacks of male camaraderie (even if it has nothing to do with work hours), and women are even involved in direct combat in war. So a lot has changed since the late eighties. I think our professor should have chosen a more current article for our first class reading. Not to mention that the article narrows its focus to people in affluent American society, whereas I think the real future of the women's rights movement is in different countries.

I also saw "Labyrinth" and "Casablanca". TOO MANY MOVIES.