tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.comments2023-10-20T09:27:13.001-07:00To My Parents, Ayn Rand, and GodIsabel Archerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12338591033415985750noreply@blogger.comBlogger188125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-25764270755594018332022-06-25T14:44:30.383-07:002022-06-25T14:44:30.383-07:00Greaat post thanksGreaat post thanksCaiden Chttps://www.caidencraig.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-56715891177925892982013-11-21T13:20:02.410-08:002013-11-21T13:20:02.410-08:00I hated that place. What a cult.I hated that place. What a cult.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-381070567473199432013-08-28T01:14:08.333-07:002013-08-28T01:14:08.333-07:00This is an awesome article. Thank you for sharing ...This is an awesome article. Thank you for sharing this. Though we miss your regular updates, Isabel.tampa corporate attorneyhttp://www.pearsonbitman.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-85032497731067433412012-06-08T11:40:10.349-07:002012-06-08T11:40:10.349-07:00Agreed so very much re: mascara. Unless you have p...Agreed so very much re: mascara. Unless you have pale blond lashes, it's hardly noticeable. Unless you're caught outside in the rain (or worse, snow), in which case it's noticeable in a bad way. <br /><br />I also, of course, love the idea of "eyelash privilege."Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-8801122773268391152012-05-10T20:50:28.409-07:002012-05-10T20:50:28.409-07:00I don't mind in the least. And thank you!I don't mind in the least. And thank you!Isabel Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215686063861945491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-46173135559275917152012-05-10T12:13:24.005-07:002012-05-10T12:13:24.005-07:00I haven't followed anyone who does this, eithe...I haven't followed anyone who does this, either. But through browsing, I've come across it. <br /><br />And I hope you don't mind, but I looked at your fashion board, via the golden retrievers link. (Note to self: must start poodle board.) Not that my opinions do or should govern what goes on a website I've only just joined, but I think you're doing it right. There's absolutely evidence of a personal style, and it both is and is not about what you, personally, might wear.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-76719642550562294962012-05-10T11:52:41.542-07:002012-05-10T11:52:41.542-07:00I think we're agreeing on the general principl...I think we're agreeing on the general principle that it's boring to pin things just because they're expensive. I guess I haven't really followed anyone who does this, though. I am also not sure that my board reflects any aesthetic vision. That is, it does to me, but it is far from clear that it would or should to anyone else.Isabel Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215686063861945491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-90486683467778356342012-05-10T08:07:02.087-07:002012-05-10T08:07:02.087-07:00Heads up - link's broken.Heads up - link's broken.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-26741320620901436192012-05-10T08:05:27.643-07:002012-05-10T08:05:27.643-07:00Oh, I don't think it's wrong at all to pin...Oh, I don't think it's wrong <i>at all</i> to pin outrageously expensive items - if I did, I'd be a hypocrite, because galaxy print doesn't come cheap. Just that it's boring to pin items simply <i>because</i> they're expensive. As in, if it's really just Louboutins and Chanel bags, with no organizing principle(s), no inklings of personal style, how is that interesting? The fact that you <i>can</i> pin items you couldn't afford/shoes you couldn't walk in ought to free you of constraints in expressing some aesthetic vision. It shouldn't, however, be an excuse to complain about how one cannot afford to have the entire contents of Net a Porter shipped to one's closet. That's a concern, but it's not precisely a <i>style</i> concern..Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-72106666128669606352012-04-27T08:04:29.473-07:002012-04-27T08:04:29.473-07:00Your links are giving me ideas. J.Crew does make g...Your links are giving me ideas. J.Crew <i>does</i> make great-looking ballet flats, and is a mere 10-minute bike ride away. However, the Bloch flats (black patent - after seriously considering the red patent) I'd been coveting finally became available again on Zappos, and just arrived, and are beautiful. <br /><br />And while I'm not capable of walking in a narrow heel, the adobe pumps led to a "you may also like" pair of Cole Haan nude wedges that are both on sale and available in my size. Hmm! Totally agreed re: the fun of adding height from time to time, in non-torturous ways. For me, that means a wedge or thick heel, but same idea.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-37494909773018229352012-02-18T16:54:35.556-08:002012-02-18T16:54:35.556-08:00I certainly don't dispute your account of the ...I certainly don't dispute your account of the causation there. I also think hovering is often brought on by the guilt of working parents (usually, though not always, mothers). Much the same way that Hollywood movies and TV shows so often feature plots about fathers who didn't have time for their children, because the people making them generally are fathers who don't have time for their children.Andrew Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453328821252013152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-25464579589770432902012-02-18T15:54:09.950-08:002012-02-18T15:54:09.950-08:00I agree that it's possible, yes. At the same t...I agree that it's possible, yes. At the same time, because of modern technology and labor-saving devices, the typical stay-at-home mother has less to do in the way of non-child-raising housework than she did in, say, 1950. I can think of women reasonably close to my age who decided to quit their jobs to stay at home with a baby, but I can't think of any who felt that they needed to quit their jobs pre-baby just to stay caught up with non-baby-related housework. Without non-child-related work to fill one's time, there's sort of a natural tendency to hover. If one sees otherwise, that may be because women who stay at home are more likely to have more traditional attitudes/ be more averse to hovering than those who choose to return to work.Isabel Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215686063861945491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-50118627239115978052012-02-18T15:19:54.634-08:002012-02-18T15:19:54.634-08:00I believe you're seeing two opposed ideas here...I believe you're seeing two opposed ideas here which are not, in fact, opposed. There's a big difference between being home for one's children and hovering over the children constantly. In fact, I think the tendency to hover over children constantly and overparent them is much more pronounced in two-worker couples than in couples with a stay-at-home parent. So I think you'll find that both viewpoints are going to prevail in conservative writing.Andrew Stevenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13453328821252013152noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-30550620404069105862012-02-09T12:15:09.720-08:002012-02-09T12:15:09.720-08:00"the gospel that he would like elites to prea..."the gospel that he would like elites to preach looks very different from most contemporary varieties of social conservatism."<br /><br />Precisely. The "Belmont" crowd has realized that for marriage to work, straights need some experimentation out of their system, and gays need to enter marriages with same-sex spouses.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-4596409946346901382012-01-17T18:07:04.189-08:002012-01-17T18:07:04.189-08:00Dog size, an issue I can totally relate to, and cl...Dog size, an issue I can totally relate to, and clutter your comments with! People kept thinking our Bisou was a standard poodle puppy, to the point that we started to get concerned. Had we been misled? Was she going to grow tall enough to reach the counter? She may be a bit tall for a miniature, but the issue was mostly that poodles come in three sizes, and "miniature" is actually "medium" in poodle terms, and because Bisou's definitively not a "toy" - i.e. handbag-dog-sized - people guess the other variety.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-6053600692007437962012-01-14T08:12:47.551-08:002012-01-14T08:12:47.551-08:00It's the sweater-vests. They say "math te...It's the sweater-vests. They say "math teacher circa 1994."Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-8417187627413242392011-12-25T23:39:39.631-08:002011-12-25T23:39:39.631-08:00Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so m...Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in it or something. 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That is really an incredible weblog.tiffany jewelleryhttp://www.tiffanysaleukco.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-75769908741264304802011-12-19T15:59:13.400-08:002011-12-19T15:59:13.400-08:00"there are the places that don't routinel..."there are the places that don't routinely card that nonetheless ask me to fork over ID."<br /><br />In these situations, I never know what's going on. I mean, to a point, being small and (a wild guess here that this might apply to you as well) not someone who spent one's youth tanning can make 24, say, look borderline. But not too many do at 27-plus. Is it part of the card-anyone-who-looks-under-40 policy that was, I believe, the rule in NY if not beyond? Where it's not precisely that 28 looks 20, more that 28 looks <i>young</i>, and you never know. Or does the person doing the carding expect near-30 women to be so delighted with being thought young as to give a big tip, or become repeat customers? Sort of like when, at the local coffee place, I come in looking especially haggard and ancient, and the wedding rings really do make a statement of age in a college town where the undergrads are incredibly unlikely to be married (and the postdocs only slightly more so)... and I'm called "miss." And it's like, sure, why not? But I'm maybe a decade older than the person ringing me up, and I don't think that's lost on the hipster in question. So in these cases, my guess is, it's either that 25-35 looks more like 18 than it does like 60, so an assessment is made, or that 25-35 looks 23-37, but women in this range are thought to be endlessly delighted by being thought 20. And I feel like maybe I would have been flattered by this at 22 or 23, when it was conceivable I'd have passed for 20, but now it's too preposterous for me to think it's a sincere assessment of my perceived age.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-60491828730419861142011-12-04T16:04:38.739-08:002011-12-04T16:04:38.739-08:00I was going to suggest the same re: watches. I hav...I was going to suggest the same re: watches. I have <a href="http://www.google.com/products/catalog?q=swiss+army+watch+women's&hl=en&num=20&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.,cf.osb&biw=1146&bih=525&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=14312320104599763202&sa=X&ei=-AbcToOoHOTV0QGXrN3zDQ&ved=0CHgQ8gIwADhQ" rel="nofollow">this</a> or thereabouts, thanks to a bat mitzvah gift of a... distinctive but apparently pricey necklace that I exchanged just before the store went out of business. I was 12, and I'm now 28, and aside from periodically needing a new battery, I wear it most days and it works/looks fine. (Well, the time - I never quite got the "date" function to work properly.) Seems to go with everything, and my style has, I'd like to think, evolved since 12. And I'm 5'2", so if I'm correct in approving of the watch, it works on the smallish.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-60753343948954739212011-12-03T20:50:43.186-08:002011-12-03T20:50:43.186-08:00victorinox swiss army sounds like it'd fit the...victorinox swiss army sounds like it'd fit the bill. classic, understated, and while a tad pricier, a good investment piece.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-35003457543971074342011-11-17T11:54:01.039-08:002011-11-17T11:54:01.039-08:00Re: how much one wishes to believe conservative cr...Re: how much one wishes to believe conservative critics of higher education, in my case, not very much, as I might have written elsewhere. Although I do concede that there's plenty of variation from school to school, and that there are probably more people dabbling in Foucaultian dildo arrangement at schools with a more pronounced urban and/or bohemian culture. <br /><br />This may go back to your idea that some of the appeal of fashion is about trying on personas? And on a college campus steeped in uber-WASP aristocratic tradition, trying on that persona is particularly fun and inviting?Isabel Archerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05215686063861945491noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7315024531213408708.post-11851559138150978982011-11-17T11:36:01.491-08:002011-11-17T11:36:01.491-08:00I thought the point of (elite) college was to pret...I thought the point of (elite) college was to pretend to be gay for four years while taking courses on Foucaultian theories of dildo-arrangement? I guess it depends on the student, the school, and how much one wishes to believe conservative critics of education re: what happens on campus.Phoebe Maltz Bovyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17996039330841139883noreply@blogger.com