Letters from an occupant

To continue with my unofficial and irregular series of posts on public figures with viewpoints that I find morally reprehensible, a few nights ago, I caught an appearance by good ol' Dr. Laura on Fox News. She was saying something about women being "unpaid whores," and how women shouldn't be viewed as sex objects. Okay, fair enough, I can agree on that one point. But then she went on to say something about how women want to be idolized. Wait, isn't that also objectification of a kind? Occasionally I'll hear about women saying they want to be treated like princesses, by which I can only assume they mean they want to be forced into arranged marriages with strange foreign princes in attempts to secure political alliances. No, but seriously, I tend to think that men treating women as something Other, even in an ostensibly positive way, isn't such a good idea.

bethje bought The Beatrice Letters, the new tie-in book for A Series of Unfortunate Events. She said it would be a while before she could read it, so she loaned it to me. Has anyone else read this book yet? I'd be interested in discussing it, but I don't want to spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it and might want to. I think I'll do a little bit of Internet searching, and see what other people might have come up with. Incidentally, there's a collection of music based on the series coming out in October. It's all by Stephin Merritt, whose music I like a lot anyway, so it might well be worth picking up.

( Logic quiz result )