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Should We Fake It to Make It? A Woman Who Writes Like a Man
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyI have a psychologist friend who told me once about a female patient, a successful executive, who felt marginalized and defensive in professional situations when she was the only woman at the table. My friend's client's solution was to "act like a man" at such gatherings. She watched her male colleagues and mimicked their mannerisms. (I pictured her assuming a tiny swagger at meetings.) To hers and the therapist's surprise, the kabuki theater worked. Maybe the guys felt more comfortable and started treating her more casually? Maybe she had dispelled her anxiety by reframing her own ...
The Dude's a Woman!
By Luisita Lopez Torregrosa - Politics DailyToday brings the revelation that a columnist named James Chartrand, who claims to have found fame and fortune writing a web log under the title "Men With Pens," is not really a guy. He's a woman, and she's manned up. Confessing that she adopted a man's name to get work and better pay, she stirs up old stuff: Men have it easier than women; men get more respect, attention, and credibility; men get more money. So who can blame a onetime-struggling 30-something writer who lied her way to put bacon on the table, buy her house, and play with her readers? But who's fooling whom? As someone who ...
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