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Of course, Chewie wanted in on the action.
My sister is supposedly bringing fruit and rolls. We'll see what actually happens.
After all of this, I get to turn the carcass into soup! I'm thinking that it will be cream of turkey noodle, but I might think of something else by then.
Back to baking....
“Women physicians developed distinctive strategies for speaking and writing in a hostile profession. Many wrote as if they were men of the received order: they insisted on the regularity of their medical views and the rigor of their education. These women sometimes argued for a wider sphere for women or claimed that their gender gave them a special understanding of some neglected (and usually undervalued) aspect of medicine, such as hygiene, public health, or prevention. Theirs was a strategy of masquerade: the woman physician wrote as male but did not present herself as ‘a man.’ Instead, she was ‘a doctor as good as any man’; her disguise is foregrounded as a performance, rendered memorable by the special skill she brought to it” (Wells 5).Wells discusses much of their writing as what she calls "cross-dressed rhetoric" and as "gendered performance." She writes about the ways these women position their discourse so that they can develop a sense of ethos within both the medical community (which regularly scorned their presence and society as a whole.
This is the story of Whoreson Jones - that really is his name - and his hardcore brutal life in the innercity (mostly Detroit) as a prostitute's son who became a pimp by age 16. It is filled with graphic violence, rape, assault, and everything else, as you might expect. While I normally I wouldn't choose to read this sort of thing, I was most disappointed in the ending. Whoreson goes soft! He plans to fly straight after getting together with the virginal (well, until he comes along) Janet. They had known each other as kids, but she wouldn't get together with him until he straightened out. Although he was trying to seduce her, once finally got her in bed, he realized that he was in love and would live right. Could this be more clichéd? Sure, at the end of the novel he ends up in jail (one of his former prostitutes plotted a little revenge), but he plans to come out of prison as an upright citizen and father - yes, Janet is pregnant at the end of the novel."I knew then that I would one day pimp and pimp good, because I was going to pimp with a passion"(48).
