http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com A blog about feminism and life... Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:55:00 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://s2.wp.com/i/buttonw-com.png http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/book-review-rage-a-love-story/ http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/2010/02/28/book-review-rage-a-love-story/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 21:55:10 +0000 Lady Sydney http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/?p=28 ]]> I loved it.  I wish there would be a sequel, but I doubt it.  However I do wish the author would let us get to know the character’s more in-depth.  Also, I have asperger’s syndrome (AS), a mild form of autism.  I’m just going to say this outright, I wasn’t to pleased with the way Robbie (whom has High Functioning Autism, HFA) was presented.  It was nothing more than the usual autistic person whom cannot socialize at all, and that is not the truth about autism.  OK, maybe an autistic in Robbie’s situation would be like that , but still, why so stereotypical.  Another question I have to ask is that why couldn’t Robbie be a girl.  I have yet to see a representation of a girl with any form of autism in literature.  Another thing I have an issue with is that every female with AS/HFA that is presented in the media, be it literature, film, or television, is represented as asexual (save for ‘Mozart and the Whale’, I loved the movie!).  While I did love ‘Rage, A Love Story’ it was hopelessly simplistic.

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]]> http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/2010/02/21/lesbian-teen-fiction/feed/ 0 Lady Sydney http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/hello-world/ http://ladyoffeminism.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/hello-world/#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 23:46:44 +0000 Lady Sydney ]]> Okay, I really suck at first posts so…yeah.  My screen name is LadySydney4.  I live in Minnesota and I am a feminist and this blog is going to be about feminism (yes, I am aware that line really sucked).  My hobbies include jewelery making (my gravatar is actually a pendent I made), reading, blogging (obviously), baking, cooking, drawing, and writing.  My favoured bands are FlyLeaf, Evansecece, Seether, Bauhaus, and The Crüxshadows.  I also edit Wikipedia (check out my user page!) so if you have any minor issues with the site like vandalism, false info, or questions the feel free to ask me!  The reason that I am now on world press it that I use a public computer and I use to have a blog on blogger.com by the same name as this one (Lady Of Feminism, I will explain the name when I have time to tomorrow) and all of the blogs on blogger.com were blocked, including mine.  It’s not like there was anything  pornographic on my blog, the whole site was blocked for some reason.  I tried to use LiveJournal but it just didn’t work out (it wasn’t blocked).  But I seem to like the format of word press better so I’m glad to be here!

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