Word: sisterhoods
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...participate in evil while perceiving it as normal. Ultimately, the people who ran my pledging process were not monsters. They were regular college students. Most were nice, accomplished, educated, socially-conscious, and even proclaimed Christians. We all knew each other, and in some cases had developed intimate bonds of sisterhood. They, like the women before them, only did to me what was done to them. It is strange how a cycle of violence is perpetuated through intimacy...
...show her obedience by sleeping with other men; it turns out he's a pimp, and she narrowly avoids a lifetime of prostitution. Indeed, hardly a page goes by without somebody collapsing in sobs. Male readers especially will find the book sodden with tears, hugs and declarations of sisterhood. But then the author's own life gets interesting. Yearning for someone to watch over her, she plays along when friends jovially offer to arrange a marriage - and suddenly finds herself wed to Samer Khan, a moody former mujahedin fighter with whom she has virtually nothing in common, including a language...
...Later, Stella will descend into misanthropic madness in a Perth boarding house, while Perdita, starved of her sisterhood with Mary, will seek out "the families of readership" as a trainee librarian. With a mastery of mise-en-sc?ne, Jones writes of the family's future as if it were the past, and the past as if it were the present. For the surviving members, what happened in the station's kitchen continues to play out, not unlike the true-life case of a Japanese soldier lost for 29 years in the Philippines jungles, who refused to believe World...
...while working at a visual-effects company, or Josh Tyler, 30, a design engineer from Dallas who has built an audience of 1 million for his site Cinemablend by being one of the more cleverly critical fanboys. (Of this summer's Bratz, he posted, "It's kind of like Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants if the pants were a miniskirt worn without undergarments.") Or they're like Berge Garabedian, 33, of Montreal, who put his M.B.A. toward founding JoBlo.com after critics trashed Armageddon, a movie he and all of his friends loved. They're guys who love--obsessively--certain types...
...SISTERHOOD IS POWERFUL...