About Steff
This is my interstellar craft of truth and wit. Buckle up. If you want celebrity gossip, this is not the blog for you. If you want comfortable postings that’ll fill you with happy fuzzy thoughts about the world at large, or self-help guru shit, this is not the blog for you.
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Category Archives: feminism
Jun
30
2010
The Dishonour of Honour Killings
Recently, here in the Great White North, a murder trial ended and the accused were sentenced to life. A father and his son killed his daughter, all because she was too progressive to be a good little Islamic girl. Muhammad Parvez and Waqas, his son, murdered Aqsa Parvez on December 10, 2007, in the guise of [...]
Also posted in Battle of the Comments, Current Events, Dating, Dimestore Philosophy, Laws, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Politics, Religion, Society, Specifically Steff, Women's Department, freedom, keeping it real, sexuality Tagged aqsa parvez, burkas, burqas, Crime, culture clash, fundamentalism, hijab, honour killings, immigration, islam, life sentence, muhammad parvez, murder, muslims, pakistan, parvez family killing, pierre elliott trudeau, saudi arabia, traditionalism, trudeau, waqas parvez 4 Comments
Jun
04
2010
Fuck You, Hollywood.
We’re witnessing the end of an empire at the box office. Sex and the City 2 is lying there like a dead fish, with all the appeal of a used-up 45-year-old prostitute after a night of chasing 8-balls with gin after running the line for a sex-train at a frat party. Naturally, Hollywood is CONVINCED it’s [...]
Also posted in Being me, Consumerism, Current Events, Dimestore Philosophy, Hollywood, Modern Feminism, Opinion (Editorial & Commentary), Society, Steff Rants, Women's Department, keeping it real Tagged bad movies, box office, carrie bradshaw, cliche, failure, feminism, Hollywood, kim catrall, movies, mr. big, new york, sarah jessica parker, satc2, sex and the city 2, Sexism, stereotypes, stupidity 6 Comments
When this blog first began, for its first year or so, it was all sex or relationships that I was writing about. Most of the time, anyhow, as I kept my “personal” writing on another blog. Somewhere along the way, I gave up separating the two. But as I’m getting into writing my book, something’s got [...]
Mar
08
2010
She’s The King of The World!
(There are no The Hurt Locker spoilers here, no worries, since about 15 of you have seen it.) It took 82 years, but there’s finally a woman who holds the title of Academy Award-winning “Best Director” . But it’s about more than just a woman taking home the big prize. As a writer, I saw something incredible [...]
Also posted in Hollywood, writing Tagged academy awards, avatar, best director, best editing, best picture, best sound, best story, Hollywood, james cameron, kathryn bigelow, oscars, the deer hunter, the hurt locker 5 Comments
Aging: Becoming My Mother’s Daughter