Tag Archives: Gender

Chivalry – Dead, Alive or Lost Spirit?

Posted on November 10, 2008 by bigWOWO

[Jaehwan's Note: This is another piece from W about gender relations.  It doesn't necessarily reflect my views, but it's a good piece to get some dialogue going on the relationships between Asian American men and Asian American women.  I hope that featuring pieces like this will invite dialogue, on this site, on other sites, and over teleconferences, which I feel are extremely helpful in understanding other people's opinions.

One thing I will say is that the web, overall, is sexist, and so I think it's important to get more female perspectives out in the open for people to see and discuss.  I'd like to send a big thank you out to W for her courage and proactiveness in sharing her opinions.]

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Humanity

Posted on October 8, 2008 by bigWOWO

I wanted to post this story, which I found on Dooce.com.  It’s a very touching story about an old woman’s taxi ride.  Here’s part of the story:

For the next two hours, we drove through the city. She showed me the building where she had once worked as an elevator operator. We drove through the neighborhood where she and her husband had lived when they were newlyweds. She had me pull up in front of a furniture warehouse that had once been a ballroom where she had gone dancing as a girl. Sometimes she’d ask me to slow in front of a particular building or corner and would sit staring into the darkness, saying nothing.

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