i have to warn you...curiousity KILLED the cat...

i bumped into cynthia enloe on the elevator today, i almost elbowed her in the head. but it was not for guilt that i later attended her poorly attended lecture; she is a feisty speaker, and i needed to catch curiousity again. i think she invented the phrase 'curious feminist': it is the title of her latest book. (her less recent book, Bananas, Beaches & Bases, explains my posting of the adjacent photo. Doesn't that woman look happy carrying a container of under-priced over-sprayed bananas on her head?).

dr. enloe began by saying 'ever since i became a feminist, and one has to become a feminist, no one is born one, but when you become one, you see things anew'. she went on to describe how her analysis of the lives of but four regular women is enough to understand the basics of the american war machine.

i like it when i get to go to lectures like this one; it surprises me how unconsciously i lose stamina when i am discouraged from asking about the lives of girls and women. it only takes an hour with dr. enloe to rekindle that early hunch that if you are pissing people off with your curiousity it is because they are attached to the status quo. and the status quo has GOT to go...