follow the women

On the last Friday of each month I curate some of the observations and insights that were shared on social media. I call these Friday’s Finds Shared by my Daughter” “I need privacy, not because my actions are questionable, but because your judgement and intentions are”. In response to “if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear”. via @itisboller The Odyssey may likely be the first example of misogyny in a written work. —Retrieving Gender Balance “One day, Penelope comes downstairs and she hears a bard singing very sad songs about how difficult it is for people like Odysseus, her husband, to get home. And she says to the bard, quite understandably, ‘Oh bard, play something a bit more cheerful.’ And this young, wet-behind-the-ears teenager Telemachus comes over to her and says, ‘Oh mother, shut up. Speech is man’s business.’” —Mary Beard Rebecca Solnit on Western Literary Tradition of Silencing Women I thought of the landmark 2014 essay by classicist Mary Beard “The Public…