Sarah Jaffe: Trickle-Down Feminism
dissentmagazine.orgIt’s time to not just to pay lip service to “the end of men,” but to place real value on women’s work.
Dissent Magazine || Winter 2013
Clementine
Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe | Clementine (Alternate Version)
“And when the young (male) publisher of Jacobin magazine was profiled in the Times’s Books section in January, women editors and publishers at The New Inquiry protested—when their similarly intellectual publication was featured in the Times the previous fall, they had been in “Fashion & Style.”
—Over at the Columbia Journalism Review, Sarah Jaffe writes about the transformation from women’s page to style section.
Clementine
Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe - Clementine
Clementine
Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe | Clementine
Fifty states,
Fifty lines,
Fifty crying all the time’s
Fifty boys,
Fifty lies,
Fifty I’m gonna change my mind’s.
I changed my mind,
I changed my mind,
And now I’m feeling different.
Watch Me Fall Apart
Sarah JaffeSarah Jaffe | Watch Me Fall Apart
You said once you were sad
but I don’t believe you
you’re too simple in the head
for pain to please you
there are days when you feel good
and days when you feel nothing at all
But there is no inbetween
and is that, that kills you
cause you don’t know what to do
which page to thumb through
on all of my failures I’ve leaned
but with God as my witness I fall
Oh one by one they watch me fall apart
THINK WHAT YOU WANT, YOU WILL ANYWAY | SARAH JAFFE
Roseanne Barr, in a recent piece in New York Magazine, pointed out that there’s next to no television these days about working-class people, much less working-class women. It’s certainly true now and was true then, in the 80s, when she got started. And in the 90s, when teen television took off, the flagship show was Beverly Hills, 90210—not exactly a blue-collar zip code.
Yet there was one show that did deal with class and teenage life, the struggles not just of economic pain but of the difficulty for working-class and middle-class kids to understand each others’ problems. A show that knew that the struggles of surviving high school were sometimes just that—literally a struggle to survive.
Clementine (Alternate Version)
Sarah JaffeI wish I was a little more delicate
