#femnista

Functional Order: Fi-Ne-Si-Te Judging Functional Axis:

Introverted Feeling (Fi) / Extroverted Thinking (Te)

Willowdean measures everything in the external world against how she feels about it – if she doesn’t like the new girl her best friend is hanging out with, she has no problem saying as much and acting like it. She joins a beauty pageant as a “protest against the patriarchy” and…

During the Great Depression and WWII, the American people flooded to the cinema. For a few hours, a movie could take them away from their troubles, transporting them some place enchanted, where there was no economic depression or war. Love, endurance, and goodness always triumphed. 1938 saw the production of the Technicolor musical The Wizard of Oz. Home, love, and overcoming adversities were a…

This issue's theme is "Playing Second Fiddle," which features couples who play "second-fiddle" in a story or a movie or a TV show. I chose Levin and Kitty from "Anna Karenina." Leo Tolstoy's magnum opus is one of the greatest novels ever written, but I feel that the secondary couple in the story, Levin and Kitty, are often overlooked.

The Forgotten Sister: Anne Brontë

“But he that dares not grasp the thorn, should never crave the rose.”—Anne Brontë

The other Brontë. The forgotten Brontë. The quiet, religious, boring younger Brontë sister. Such are the descriptions used regarding Anne Brontë, the baby sister of Charlotte and Emily, the queens of Gothic romance. For decades, Anne was a footnote in her sister’s lives, rarely mentioned and never appreciated for…

Call the Midwife and the 1950s Housewife

By Ashley Yarbrough

I often feel I was born during the wrong time period. I really love the modern medicine and technology of today. It’s amazing in so many ways, and I don’t envy the struggles of those before us who are the reason we have these amazing luxuries. However, I can’t help but feel like we are missing some unnoticed luxuries now that women need to work more, sometimes causing a…

There Was a Dream: My Love for Ancient Rome

By Eva-Joy Schonaar

I’m not sure when I first became enamored with ancient Rome, but I’ve loved stories set there for nearly as long as I can remember. Ben-Hur(1959) was a staple film in our house (it’s still a big favorite of mine). My favorite book in the Royal Diaries series was Cleopatra’s diary—and while she was Egyptian (well, Greek, actually) there were still several Roman characters +…

by Jessica Prescott

“Greater love hath no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.”

Sometimes we forget that “friends” bit, don’t we? In storytelling, at least, we seem to forget it. So often, romantic lovers make the sacrifice play “because I love you,” because you’re my one and only, because we have an exclusive, sexual bond which motivates me to give myself up for you.…

42: A Partnership That Changed History

By Charity Bishop

I am not “into” baseball or any other sport, but 42is one of my favorite movies, because of the powerful way it shows how two men’s courage and moral fortitude broke the color barrier in baseball. Though they are not “friends” in the movie, Rickey’s stalwart support, moral strength, and sheer courage gives the much-abused Jackie Robinson the motivation to keep fighting for a…