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[chelseagirl]

My current freelance project is a history of American Democracy. FWIW, the first time a woman appears who is neither wife, mother, nor object of sexual scandal? Page 313. And she is first referenced as "the Scots-born chestnut-haired 'Priestess of Beelzebub'." As it turns out later, she is actually a rather interesting political radical. But may I add that in all these pages, the author has referenced a man's hair color exactly once.

I'm not, you know, *surprised* or anything.

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[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

Perhaps her hair was actually made of chestnuts, in which case it's certainly noteworthy. ;)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

That would certainly explain the crowds she drew . . .

[seanmoon.livejournal.com]

What sort of dress was she wearing, that's what I want to know.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Alas, he doesn't tell us that, but we do get "stormy arrival" "scandalous celebrity" and "free love" all in one paragraph.

[patsyrant.livejournal.com]

Damn it! Who's been libelling me again? Someone call my agent...

[joysilence.livejournal.com]

That reminds me of an extremely annoying trend I've noticed in British literary criticism recently - it seems that whenever an acclaimed female author repeats herself a few times too many or a female fictional character gets stale, journalists start snarking about her being in need of "literary Botox" or suffering from a "literary menopause". I have never heard anything similar said about flagging male authors, and it makes me sick to see supposedly enlightened critics slipping that kind of fatuous sexism into their reviews.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

Gack! I wonder how they'd feel if prescribed some literary Viagra?

(Er, I know medications often have different names in the US & UK, but surely Viagra is of transatlantic celebrity?)

[joysilence.livejournal.com]

Ooh yes it is! Hilariously, a story broke on the news last week that Viagra can make you blind :D

[fshk.livejournal.com]

This reminds me that I've been meaning to ask you... I think I remember that you get freelance work through an agency. Is it just indexing? (I've only done one index ever, and it was for a 60-page book of poems, so I don't know if I'd be qualified to index.) (I'm looking for freelance work, mostly copyediting, but I'm open to other sorts of things.)

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

This company just does indexing.

They are open to finding new people, but for the training you have to go up to Westchester (they got rent-driven out of the city a few years back) and train with them, which is probably not feasible for the full-time employed. Sorry.

[fshk.livejournal.com]

Ah, thanks.

[patsyrant.livejournal.com]

Weren't all the men wearing powdered wigs for at least the first fifty pages?

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

And yet, somehow the fact that Thomas Jefferson is a redhead escapes nobody's notice.

[trouvera.livejournal.com]

Reminds me of a conversation I had with a guest artist while in undergrad that has just simply stayed with me since. Oddly, I remember the conversation, but for the life of me can't remember who it actually was that I was speaking with. Anyway...she was a recent replacement violist in a well reputed quartet, and the only female. She stated that she had kept the first six months worth of published performance reviews/critiques but stopped when she realized that almost universally the writers commented on her colleagues performances and her wardrobe.

[chelseagirl.livejournal.com]

*shakes head*