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The Oscar Wilde of Your Dreams
October 12, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
In a November 1920 letter to her husband, John Middleton Murry, Katherine Mansfield describes a dream in which she met Oscar Wilde. Read more of her correspondence in The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield.
In a café, Gertler met me. "Katherine you must come to my table. I've got Oscar Wilde there. He's the most marvelous man I ever met. He's splendid!" Gertler was flushed. When he spoke of Wilde he began to cry—tears hung on his lashes but he smiled. Read More »
Lou and His Dream-making Machine
August 22, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
Lou Pearlman, the slippery impresario behind the Backstreet Boys, *NSYNC, O-Town, LFO, Aaron Carter, and about a half dozen other agreeably vacuous late nineties pop acts, has died in prison. Yes, the Lou Pearlman. The guy practically invented boy bands. I mean, he didn't—he just ripped off New Kids on the Block—but he invented the most lucrative boy bands, and as he'd be the first to tell you, that's the more major achievement. You couldn't turn around in 1999 without seeing one of his acts: massively telegenic, deeply ordinary, somehow memorable. They had branded lip balms, bobbleheads, and throw pillows for sale. I know this because I spent a lot of time hating them. Read More »
The Thunder Runs Again, and Other News
March 9, 2016 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Today in the gender binary: using data collected from e-book readers, a start-up called Jellybooks (inspires confidence, no?) has decreed that "men decide much faster than women if they like a story or not." The company's founder, Andrew Rhomberg, spoke to the Guardian: "If an author wants to hold on to a male reader, they have 'only twenty to fifty pages to capture their attention,' according to the research. 'No room for rambling introductions … The author needs to get to the point quickly, build suspense or otherwise capture the male reader, or he is gone, gone, gone." (I didn't make it to the end of the article.)
- On her mother's side, Alex Mar is descended from Juan Ponce de León: yes, Mr. Fountain of Youth himself, conquistador extraordinaire, slaughterer of innocents. Mar has taken a hard look at her ancestor: "The currency of his name, I guess, has made him the only distant ancestor who warrants mention. I've heard him spoken of in two registers: in the Grimms'-fairy-tales voice reserved for children, a tone that says, Oh yes, it's all true and isn't it incredible?; and in that faux-modest way of adults, that way of deliberately sounding lighthearted about a thing that makes you proud—a thing you're convinced gives you an edge … Most historians seem to agree that Juan Ponce de León is one of the more humane of these European settlers, treating the locals he absorbs into his enterprise more like indentured servants than slaves. But what does that mean? How thinly do we have to slice these moral distinctions to see the difference? … Do we inherit darkness, even at a few centuries' remove?"
- At the Guggenheim, Francine Prose looks at the work of the Swiss duo Peter Fischli and David Weiss, whose mural How to Work Better you may have seen at the corner of Houston and Mott Streets in New York: "The kind of humor captured in the How to Work Better mural—simultaneously playful and sincere, mingling the banal and the profound, attentive to the contradictions, ironies, and accidental beauties of the world—pervades the Guggenheim show … The two- and three-dimensional works, videos, and films manage to be rebellious without being strident, to be witty and cerebral without ever seeming pretentious or coy, to challenge traditional notions of what art is and can do, and to comment on the society in which we live without making us feel that their principal focus is provocation or attacking our politics and social order."
- The Bristol Old Vic, a British theater, dates to 1766, and it has the special-effects technology to match. To summon the sound of thunder, for instance, they roll a bunch of wooden balls down a pine-pitch chute built into the rafters. This "thunder run" had been out of commission since 1942—but now it's back: "Theater historian David Wilmore was enlisted to carry out test runs, and over three days the Bristol Old Vic technical team learned how to use the old-fashioned sound device … Most thunder runs disappeared with the advance of new technology, and other theaters used less cumbersome methods from the start, like metal thunder sheets rattled offstage. These were often joined by rain boxes, which consisted of dried peas rolling through a long structure with ledges nailed inside, and a wind machine, featuring a rotating cylinder of wooden slats covered with fabric."
- What if critics dropped the whole burdensome critical apparatus—the long ledes, the cool authority, the markers of taste—and told us about their dreams? Reviewing Rebekah Rutkoff's The Irresponsible Magician, one critic sees a way of casting off the constrictions of the book review: "I dream, sometimes, that I am reading—just reading—and as I approach the lower pages of a long PDF, my computer's battery flashes an urgent red. My more exciting dreams lead me on quests to find some precious object or escape some nefarious force. It's the normal sort of dream-stuff, but for one crucial thing: my dreams always unfold in cavernous and deserted buildings. In my dreams I navigate endless corridors, traverse indoor gardens, and paddle through underground canals. The landscapes I dream up resemble nothing more than malls. Rundown, or even abandoned malls … Commerce snakes its way into each dream-mind's working—snakes in, loops round fragments of sensation and assembles them as sense. It urges us—as do family, society, language, and law—toward an inner consensus."
Sexy Santa, and Other News
November 23, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- Today in audiobooks: recordings of erotic novels are selling like love muffins. And why not? What better way to spice up a long drive or a boring Saturday night than with a good story and some professionally stylized heavy breathing? But according to two popular vocal talents, Jennifer Mack and Soozi Cheyenne, the work can be taxing: "The explosion of sex-infused books (much of it self-published) and the popularity of MP3 downloads have combined to produce a vast universe of fictional aural sex. The books range from fantasy romance with rose petals on the bed to raunchier fare with lots of rough sex … Reading the raunchy stuff requires stamina. 'After your fifteenth sex scene, it becomes exhausting,' Mack said. 'You can only do so many.' 'Sometimes I go, This is too early in the day for this,' Cheyenne chimed in. 'Sometimes the descriptions of the genitalia, like love muffin and throbbing manhood, send me into fits of giggles. So you take a break. You have a cigarette. You buy a salad.' "
- In the fifties, a cultural anthropologist named Bert Kaplan undertook a massive effort to capture and store people's dreams on Microcards: "This vast catalogue of intimate details was assembled in the service and spirit of early twentieth-century social science, with its aspirations to produce a comprehensive account of the human mind, both within and across cultures … With the aid of the most advanced technologies for extraction and storage, they aimed to gather together testimonies of subjectivity from as many parts of the world as they could and largely leave to others the work of drawing conclusions about the whole. This was not a digest of confessional poetry or a narrow selection of case studies or personal histories."
- The artist Aurel Schmidt's new show, "The Blast Furnace of Civilization," features ceramic geese with candles shoved down their throats (Foie Gras Candelabra), a pair of Converse sneakers outfitted with the Campbell's Soup logo, and a Santa with the body of a yoga-toned young woman. "I am interested in the strange, mutant, man-made objects we buy, we touch, we orbit our identities around," Schmidt says. "How they are presented to us, the way they are sold, the images of the objects online—flat and bright—or in stores, pretending to be things they are not … I am just fascinated by the process, it's very dark but very interesting and it touches us every day—we interact with it every minute."
- Being a crate-digging, record-collecting jazz aficionado is all well and good if you're a guy. But if you're not … "Record collecting, as the foremost practice through which relics of jazz history circulate and accrue value, reinforces in material culture the gender-based misrepresentations of the culture at large … Only by confining his collection within limits can the collector achieve the mastery he seeks. Logistical constraints, necessarily producing exclusions, make the collector's mission possible … Women are pressured to inhabit male practices of appreciation, only to regularly be doubted and shamed for trying to impress men."
- Today in trolls: hats off to jeremy1122, a Redditor who spent the better part of a year perfecting the style of a prolix, snobby David Foster Wallace fan, leaving a spoor of pretension and lit-bro entitlement wherever he went. "David Foster Wallace, I think, wrote sex scenes better than any other author," jeremy1122 wrote once. "Everything in Infinite Jest tends toward infinity, like a great cosmic orgasm, and in the end, reading the text itself is the real sex. A coital bond between Wallace's mind and ours."
Britain's Best-selling Sex-Ed Guide, and Other News
August 21, 2015 | by Dan Piepenbring
- First published in London in 1684, Aristotle's Masterpiece is "one of the best-selling books ever produced in English on sex and making babies." Aristotle, at the time, had assumed a role in the popular culture as an ancient sex expert; "his" sex guide reads in parts like the Kama Sutra in cheeky British doggerel, and it's complete with a woodcut of a woman in dishabille, so teenagers probably masturbated to it. "But the book also provided a solid framework of contemporary knowledge about the basics of pregnancy, childbirth, and infant health, detailing topics such as the signs of pregnancy, how to tell false labor from true, the various positions the baby might present in, et cetera. Not surprisingly, since it was plagiarized from another midwifery book, this information was largely unexceptional." It makes a cameo in Ulysses.
- "I attend a diplomatic soiree and as I am leaving my pants fall down (Is it desire?) … Cannibals. You were on an island and some black cannibals jumped out and they put you on the grill and poured oil on you. You, so peaceful. They ate you and they reported saying that the meat was hard and had to fatten more." Santiago Ramón y Cajal discovered the neuron and hypothesized the function of synapses—which was a boon for science and all—but more important, he kept a dream journal, and it is piquant.
- Art has come to valorize depression, clearly, and to see genius in melancholy—but in the culture at large, thanks to pharmacology, depressives are still stigmatized. "Stigmatization and sanctification come with real ethical dangers. On the one hand, there is the danger that hidden in the wish for the elimination of depressive symptoms is a wish for the elimination of other essential attributes of the depressed person … On the other hand there is the danger of taking pleasure in the pain of the melancholic, and of adding the expectation of insight to the already oppressive expectations the melancholic likely has for herself … The language used in both discourses bears a striking resemblance to the language the depressed person uses in her own head."
- Considered as a text, the Nashville music industry's collected lyrics have one clear idée fixe: adultery. Even in the twenties, tunes like "The Jealous Sweetheart" and "The Mountaineer's Courtship" wept over the wayward heart; by the time "Jolene" came around, the style had become an archetype, if not a formula. "Cheating songs have a lot of moving parts. All of them have at least three characters, each of which can be the narrator or the person being addressed … Country music has a somewhat limited palate, and adultery is one its primary colors. 'To say something fresh and literal is the hardest thing' … But if you have a mess of variables to slot into your tried-and-true story structure, it gets a little easier."
- The refined songcraft of one James "Jimmy" Buffett, meanwhile, focuses its talents almost exclusively on epicurean pleasures. "Food and drink are central to the ethos of Jimmy Buffett, and even the most casual fan can rattle off a handful of songs that orbit around seaside eats. There are lesser known gems like 1994's 'Fruitcakes' (Half-baked cookies in the oven / Half-baked people on the bus / There's a little bit of fruitcake left in everyone of us) and 1970s classic 'Grapefruit-Juicy Fruit' (Grapefruit, a bathin' suit, chew a little Juicy Fruit / Wash away the night)."
June 30, 2015 | by Sadie Stein
"Last night I had a dream"—there are few sentences more ominous. And not in an interesting way, either, although people seem to think listening to dreams is the sort of thing friends are happy—nay, obligated—to do, like helping them move house or giving medical advice (if the friends happen to be doctors). Imposing them on a stranger is merely unforgivable.
For my own part, I can bear dream narratives—it's stories of drug-addled antics I can't stand. What I hate is that they're always supposed to be uproarious. But many of the problems inherent to an endless drug tale—lack of relatability, the difficulty of conjuring the scene, the essential loneliness of the experience—are the same. I won't say relating either a hilarious drug story or a dream is an actively hostile act—but alienating, certainly. Maybe antisocial. Certainly solipsistic. Read More »


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FORT WAYNE, Ind. (Indiana's NewsCenter) - Occupy Fort Wayne protesters have responded to a request from the Fort Wayne Police Department to tidy up their camp.
Police approached the group Thursday night about complaints related to the condition of some tents at Freimann Square.
The occupy group removed those tents that had collapsed from the snow. They said they've been given the ok to stay now from police and have no plans to leave based on the weather.
The group has a make-shift kitchen and has rented a port-a-john for the camp.
Around 10 members spend the night at the park each night.
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Independent, By Karrie Gillett
Researchers have discovered a new gene they say helps explain how humans evolved from chimpanzees.
The gene, called miR-941, appears to have played a crucial role in human brain development and could shed light on how we learned to use tools and language, according to scientists.
A team at the University of Edinburgh compared it to 11 other species of mammals, including chimpanzees, gorillas, mice and rats.
The results, published in Nature Communications, showed that the gene is unique to humans.
The team believe it emerged between six and one million years ago, after humans evolved from apes.
Researchers said it is the first time a new gene carried by humans and not by apes has been shown to have a specific function in the human body.
Martin Taylor, who led the study at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular Medicine at the University of Edinburgh, said: "As a species, humans are wonderfully inventive – we are socially and technologically evolving all the time.
"But this research shows that we are innovating at a genetic level too.
"This new molecule sprang from nowhere at a time when our species was undergoing dramatic changes: living longer, walking upright, learning how to use tools and how to communicate.
"We're now hopeful that we will find more new genes that help show what makes us human."
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Story: Housing and government
Solid and dependable, the state house has become a New Zealand icon and is a symbol of the government's involvement in housing. Successive governments have had different ideas about their role in housing, but as well as being a landlord to many of its citizens, the state has also helped New Zealanders buy their own houses through many different schemes.
Full story by Ben Schrader
Main image: Upper Greys Avenue flats, Auckland, 1964. Source: New Zealand Herald
The Short Story
A quick, easy summaryRead the Full Story
Early settlers' housing
Early European settlers were housed in government-owned barracks – huts or other buildings – when they first arrived in the country. The government gave town councils some powers related to housing, for example to prevent overcrowding.
Worker's dwellings
A lack of good-quality and affordable housing led Premier Richard Seddon's Liberal government to build houses to rent to workers from 1906. However, this scheme was not very successful, and the Reform Party government which followed sold the houses.
State housing
In the late 1930s a new Labour government began to build state houses. As well as providing housing for families, it aimed to give work to builders and manufacturers. In the 1940s whole suburbs of state houses were built, such as Naenae in Lower Hutt and Ōtara in Auckland. Later, some state houses were sold, often to their tenants.
Support for private housing
Some governments thought it was important for people to own their own homes. From the 1920s, but especially from the 1950s, there were various schemes to help people buy their own homes. Until the 1980s the government loaned home buyers money, usually at a low interest rate. New Zealand had a very high rate of people who owned their own home, compared to other similar countries.
Council-owned housing
Many city councils built houses and flats, which they rented out mainly to elderly or single people.
21st century
In the 2000s the government continued to provide state housing and had several schemes to help people buy their own home. The government also set standards for housing quality.


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I have a photo gallery set up with an index Page, you click on a photo alblum and that goes to a Page with with a full-width page template. This works fine, except I would rather these photo album pages be POSTs.
Is there any way get only some of the posts to be full width?
similar to what is going on this thread
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And say: if the category is photo albums use single that is full width?? And leave all other posts alone.


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Pre-Occupational Therapy Concentration
Please note that occupational therapy programs vary for their requirements. Be sure to check all programs you are considering applying to early during your undergraduate career for specific pre-requisites needed to apply to that school's program. The information for this list was compiled from the occupational therapy programs in North Carolina.
Standardized Exam required for admission: GRE Resource for national standards: American Occupational Therapy Association
Required Courses:
BIO 213 Anatomy & Physiology I
BIO 214 Anatomy & Physiology II
CHM 111, 111L Chemistry Principles I & Lab
CHM 112, 112L Chemistry Principles II & Lab
MAT 130 Introductory Statistics for Social Sciences or ENV Data Analysis for Natural Sciences or other statistics course
Many programs do not require physics but if it is required, college physics is required.
PHY 201 College Physics I
PHY 202 College Physics II
PSY 101 General Psychology
PSY 271 Abnormal Psychology
In addition to the above, the following courses are recommended:
ATH 101 Cultural Anthropology
NUR 105 Medical Terminology
PHL 310 Biomedical Ethics
PSY 210 Developmental Psychology
SOC 101 Introduction to Sociology
Consider starting Spanish or continuing it from high school to increase your ability to work with Spanish-speaking patients as this skill will be valuable with demographic trends in the United States.
Total: 28-36 Hrs for required courses.


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Viewing Tattoo Tag: France
Portrait of my Dad
It's the portrait of my Dad , passed away 1 year ago ,then aged 19 years .10/20/15
Marie Antionette: "Let Them Eat Cake"
As an entertainer, I understand being a contradiction. I sacrafice myself for others, as Miss Marie Antionette did as well. Plus, I intend to live like her some day and eat all the cake I want!08/23/14
MissMeow LeBarbu Shamrock Tattoo
#MissMeow #Limoore was getting tattooed by Mc Tattooer #ShamrockTattoo Super Logo #LeBarbu designed by Damien Lefert <3 #meow #leopard #Bernay #LaFrance08/11/14
Back Of leg Maori from France
Maori tattoo got a signification for all of this form. Sun bring the succes, Tikki (the 2 head) protect my back, the turle is a longevity symbol.05/09/14


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Temptalia Asks You
February 27, 2011
Weekly Feature
Confidence is key! It's true no matter the gender, but wear it because you want to, because it makes you feel confident and sexy and all things awesome. If you're new to makeup and want to work your way up, try skin products (less noticeable) and eyeliner. Though generally, I think the majority of makeup tips you hear apply to all!


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Flight of the Conchords and Iron and Wine
Talk about an unlikely combination. The meditative sounds of Iron and Wine, driven by the earnest lyrics and Travis picking of frontman Sam Beam, usually make for a calm and staid live performance. Comedy, meanwhile, plays a central role in the music of Flight of the Conchords, whose shows boast a higher energy and tend to attract a boisterous crowd. Seeing the two bands co-headlining a show at Red Rocks promises an evening of opposing and intriguing dynamics. The Conchords' second and final season on HBO yielded some of their most mature and creative music to date, while Iron and Wine's new release, Around the Well, boasts two discs of unreleased and rare material marked by Beam's poignant words and measured acoustic riffs. The resulting mixture of sounds and fans could make this show much more than the sum of its parts.
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NEW YORK - An $8 million painting by Jean-Michel Basquiat has been located in a Manhattan warehouse after apparently being smuggled out of Brazil, federal prosecutors said.
Prosecutors filed papers Wednesday seeking to seize the 1982 painting, called "Hannibal," in an effort to help Brazilian authorities claim it.
U.S. authorities said Wednesday they found the painting in an Upper East Side warehouse in November.
A courier had brought the painting from London into the U.S. via John F. Kennedy International Airport in August. No mention of the work's celebrated creator was made and the painting was valued at merely $100 on customs declaration forms, prosecutors said.
Its last known owner was Edemar Cid Ferreira, the former owner of Banco Santos and one of Brazil's largest art collectors. The bank went bankrupt in September 2005, leaving behind debts of over $1 billion.
Ferreira was convicted in Brazil on charges including money laundering and bank fraud. He was ordered to begin serving a 21-year sentence in December 2006. A Brazilian court ordered the seizure of $20 million to $30 million worth of art, saying Ferreira and his relatives and associates had bought the works with proceeds of illegal schemes, according to U.S. prosecutors.
But "Hannibal" - described as an acrylic, oil stick and paper collage on canvas - was missing.
Basquiat rocketed to art-world prominence in the 1980s, lauded for his strong use of color and the social commentary in his work. He died of a heroin overdose in 1988, at 27.
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The Trouble with Men and Women
Release Date: August 9th, 2006
Not Yet Rated|1 hr. 13 min.
Plot Summary
Matt (Joseph McFadden), a young Londoner, is down in the dumps after his girlfriend leaves him. His pal Vinnie (Matthew Delamere) and Vinnie's lover, Susie (Kate Ashfield), do their best to cheer him. Matt tries dating again, but he just cannot find the right woman. Complications arise when Matt and Susie begin having romantic feelings for each other.
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The city of Beaverton and the Oregon Humane Society are teaming up for the annual Beaverton Celebration Day, which means dogs in costumes will lead this year's parade.
The parade will start at 10 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 6, at the corner of Allen Boulevard and Menlo Drive.
The pooch parade is open to the first 100 dog owners who sign up, and consists of a 1.5-mile route. The theme for this year's parade is "A World in our City."
In addition to parade, local dogs will get more time in the spotlight the night before, with a Doggie Dress-Up contest from 5-8 p.m. Sept. 5 at the Beaverton First Friday on Washington Avenue between Second and Third streets.
Prizes will be awarded for best trick, and best-dressed small, medium, and large dogs. Winners can receive special recognition at Saturday morning's Pooch Parade.
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Not all feminists support abortion. Properly defined, feminism is a philosophy that embraces basic rights for all human beings without exception—without regard to race, religion, sex, size, age, location, disability or parentage. Feminism rejects the use of force to dominate, control or destroy anyone.
The organization Feminists for Life continues a 200-year-old tradition begun by Mary Wollstonecraft in England in 1792. Decrying the sexual exploitation of women in A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Wollstonecraft also condemned those who would "either destroy the embryo in the womb or cast it off when born," saying: "Nature in everything deserves respect, and those who violate her laws seldom violate them with impunity."
Mary Wollstonecraft died from complications following the birth of her second baby girl, who was named Mary in her honor. Like her mother, the younger Mary would become a great writer, producing one of the greatest novels ever to address the dangers of violating nature—Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin Shelley.
Fifty years after Mary Wollstonecraft's book was published, Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton traveled to England to fight for the abolition of slavery. Barred from speaking at the 1842 World Anti-Slavery Convention simply because they were women, Mott and Stanton determined to hold a convention advancing the rights of women.
At that time, American women could not vote or hold property. They could not control their own money, sit on a jury or even testify on their own behalf. Women's rights to assemble, speak freely, attend college and maintain child custody after divorce or spousal death were severely limited. Marital rape went unacknowledged. The early American feminists—facing conditions similar to those in developing countries today—were strongly opposed to abortion; despite their own struggles, they believed in the worth of all human lives.
Abortion was common in the 1800s. Sarah Norton, who with Susan B. Anthony successfully argued for women's admission to Cornell University, wrote in 1870:
Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned.... Perhaps there will come a day when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with.
In 1868 Eleanor Kirk, a novelist turned activist, linked the need for women's rights with the need to protect the unborn. When a woman told her that suffrage was unnecessary because she and her husband were "one," Kirk asked what would become of her babies if her husband ceased to provide for them:
What will become of the babies—did you ask—and you? Can you not see that the idea is to educate women that they may be self-reliant, self-sustaining, self-respected? The wheel is a big one, and needs a strong push, and a push all together, giving to it an impulse that will keep it constantly revolving, and the first revolution must be Female Suffrage.
Without known exception, the early feminists condemned abortion in no uncertain terms. In the radical feminist newspaper The Revolution, the founder, Susan B. Anthony, and the co-editor, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, refused to publish advertisements for "Foeticides and Infanticides." Stanton, who in 1848 organized the first women's convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., classified abortion as a form of "infanticide" and, referring to the "murder of children, either before or after birth," said, "We believe the cause of all these abuses lies in the degradation of women."
Early feminists argued that women who had abortions were responsible for their actions but that they resorted to abortion primarily because, within families and throughout society, they lacked autonomy, financial resources and emotional support. A passage in Susan B. Anthony's newspaper states:
Guilty? Yes, no matter what the motive, love of ease, or a desire to save from suffering the unborn innocent, the woman is awfully guilty who commits the deed. It will burden her conscience in life, it will burden her soul in death; but oh, thrice guilty is he who drove her to the desperation which impelled her to the crime!
Victoria Woodhull, the first woman to run for president (in 1872), concurred. In her own newspaper, Woodhull and Claflin's Weekly, Woodhull wrote: "The rights of children, then, as individuals, begin while they yet remain the foetus." Woodhull and her sister, Tennessee Claflin, declared, "Pregnancy is not a disease, but a beautiful office of nature."
Clearly, we have a wealth of evidence contradicting the lie that feminists must support abortion. Some who begrudgingly admit the early American feminists were anti-abortion have suggested that their stance arose from Victorian attitudes about sex. That is not true either. Elizabeth Cady Stanton shocked Victorian society by parading around in public visibly pregnant. She raised a flag to celebrate the birth of her son. Stanton celebrated womanhood. She was in-your-face about her ability to have children.
But like today's pro-life feminists, our feminist foremothers also recognized that women need not bear children to share in the celebration of womanhood. Susan B. Anthony was once complimented by a man who said that she "ought to have been a wife and mother." Anthony replied:
Sweeter even than to have had the joy of caring for children of my own has it been to me to help bring about a better state of things for mothers generally, so their unborn little ones could not be willed away from them.
In her later years, Anthony passed on the responsibility for women's rights to a new generation, just as we must prepare to do. At the turn of the century, one young woman, Alice Paul, assumed leadership. Paul fought tirelessly for passage of the 19th Amendment, which in 1920 finally guaranteed to American women the right to vote.
The Betrayal of Modern Women
Much later in life, Alice Paul was asked by a friend what she thought of linking abortion to women's rights. The author of the original Equal Rights Amendment called abortion "the ultimate exploitation of women." Yet what earlier feminists called a "disgusting and degrading crime" was, in the 1970s, lauded as the most fundamental right, without which all other rights are meaningless. So how did the second wave feminist movement come to embrace abortion?
Two of the male founders of the National Association to Repeal Abortion Laws were among the first to portray abortion as a "right" rather than an act of violence. Larry Lader promoted abortion as population control. His NARAL cofounder, Dr. Bernard Nathanson, saw a botched abortion in Chicago and reasoned that "legal" would mean "safer." Nathanson later became pro-life. But in the early 1970s, the men traveled the country advocating the repeal of what they believed to be antiquated abortion laws. After failing to convince legislators that anti-abortion laws were "archaic," Lader saw an opportunity. According to Nathanson, Lader approached leaders of the women's movement. He reasoned that if a woman wanted to be educated like a man, hired like a man and promoted like a man, women should not expect their employers to accommodate pregnancy.
Forty-two years after the Roe v. Wade decision legalizing abortion, many within the pro-life movement focus on the undeniable humanity of each unborn child, clearly visible through the millions of sonograms obtained by proud parents each year. But it is also a good time to evaluate the impact that Roe v. Wade attorney Sarah Weddington's pro-abortion arguments have had on women.
In 1973, Weddington exposed the discrimination and other injustices faced by pregnant women who are poor or in the workplace or school. But she did not demand that these injustices be remedied. Instead, she demanded for women the "right" to submit to these injustices by destroying their pregnancies. Weddington repeatedly said that women need "relief" from pregnancy, instead of arguing that women need relief from these injustices.
What if Weddington had used her legal acumen to challenge the system and address women's needs? Women are not suddenly stupid when they become pregnant. They can still read, write and think. But by accepting pregnancy discrimination in school and in the workplace, by accepting the widespread lack of support for pregnant women and parents—especially among the poor—Weddington and the Supreme Court betrayed women and undermined the support women need and deserve.
The Failing Report Card
Planned Parenthood is the largest provider of abortions in the United States. According to the Guttmacher Institute, their former research arm:
• Three out of four women who have abortions say that having a baby would interfere with work, school or the ability to care for a dependent.
• 69 percent are economically disadvantaged.
• 61 percent are already mothers.
• Women of color are disproportionately at risk of abortion.
• Half of all abortions are performed on women who have already had an abortion.
• 44 percent of all abortions are performed on college-age women.
All too often, the root causes underlying these statistics are shame and fear generated about pregnancy by the attitudes of parents, friends and the fathers of children. Fatherhood has been diminished. Children are disconnected from their fathers, who have rights as well as responsibilities. And millions of women have paid the price. Women, many impoverished because of the billions owed to mothers for child support, are struggling in school and the workplace without societal support. After all, when "it's her body, it's her choice," it's her problem.
For all these reasons and more, more than a million times a year in the United States, a woman lays her body down or swallows a bitter pill called "choice"—driven to abortion because of a lack of resources and support.
Abortion solves nothing. Almost four decades after Roe, we mourn the loss of 57 million American children that we will never meet. We will never know what they might have contributed to this world. But we must also remember the hundreds of women and teens who have lost their lives to legal but lethal abortion because they did not want to inconvenience us with their pregnancies.
We mourn with the parents of Holly Patterson, who died from sepsis after she took RU-486, and with the parents of Dawn Ravenell, the 13-year-old girl who never came home after she had an abortion without her parent's knowledge. We mourn with the husband of Karnamaya Mongar, a poor immigrant who died as a result of her abortion at the hands of the convicted murderer Kermit Gosnell. Where is the outrage from women's advocates?
Hard Cases, Exceptional Choices
Talking about abortion brings out raw emotions. Nothing is more divisive than talk about pregnancy and rape, and nothing challenges pro-life beliefs more than this heated issue. Just as we have challenged thinking about special-needs babies and their parents, we must help women who have conceived during rape and welcome children conceived in violence.
We must help people have the courage to look into the face of a child conceived during rape and say, "You didn't deserve the death penalty." The circumstances of one's conception do not determine a person's worth. These children should not be regarded as "exceptions." But their mothers should be recognized as "exceptional." And as advocates of life, peace and justice, we will never trade one form of violence for another.
Today we stand in solidarity with women coerced into abortion because they felt they had no choice. We stand with women who were vulnerable because they were young, or poor, or in schools or workplaces that would not accommodate their needs as mothers.
We stand in solidarity with women who have been betrayed by those they count on the most, with women who have underestimated their own strength, with women who have experienced abortion and are silent no more, with young men and women who mourn their missing siblings. We mourn with men who weren't given a choice or who contributed to an abortion that they now regret.
In all its forms, abortion has masked—rather than solved—the problems women face. Abortion is a failed experiment on women. Why celebrate failure?
Addressing Root Causes
For decades, abortion advocates have asked, "What about the woman?" And pro-lifers have answered, "What about the baby?" This does nothing to address the needs of women who are pregnant. We should start by addressing the needs of women—for family housing, child care, maternity coverage, for the ability to telecommute to school or work, to job-share, to make a living wage and to find practical resources.
As pro-life employers and educators, we must examine our own policies and practices in our own communities, workplaces, colleges and universities. With woman-centered problem solving, we can set the example for the nation and the world. We must ramp up efforts to systemically address the unmet needs of struggling parents, birthparents and victims of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Because 61 percent of abortions are performed on mothers who already have dependents, Feminists for Life is determined to help those facing tough economic times; FFL has published "Raising Kids on a Shoestring," a national directory filled with creative, frugal and free solutions for pregnant women, parents and advisors.
And Feminists for Life advocates unconditional support for women who lovingly place their babies into the arms of adoptive couples. We applaud birthmothers like the former FFL board chair Jessica O'Connor-Petts, who tells us that "adoption can be an empowering option for women."
We must focus our efforts on collegians who have never known a day without legal abortion. Forty-three percent of all abortions are performed on college-age women, women who will become our future leaders and educators in every field. For these reasons, Feminists for Life's flagship effort is our college outreach program.
In addition to teaching the rich, pro-life feminist history that we have uncovered, we have been moderating FFL Pregnancy Resource Forums at campuses across the country. The first such panel discussion was at Georgetown University in 1997. Administrators, community leaders and students came together in a nonconfrontational setting to identify available resources on and off campus and to set priorities for new policies, resources and ways to communicate nonviolent options.
Within two years, Georgetown University's board of trustees set aside endowed housing for parenting students. The Hoya Kids Learning Center was established. Pregnant and parenting students had access to health services and user-friendly information on the school's website. Students created volunteer babysitting services. A "safety net" team of university administrators organized to ensure that no pregnant women—including birthmothers and international students—fall through the cracks. And every year, Georgetown hosts a Pregnancy Resource Forum to take another look at ways they can improve.
The first Georgetown forum started with the story of a woman who had an abortion because she did not know where to go for help. At the 14th annual forum, babies played on the floor. Beaming mothers told us they have "everything [they] need." This past fall I moderated the 19th annual forum at Georgetown University. Because of our early efforts at Georgetown, Villanova and Notre Dame, this is the first year that babies born with the support of administrators are now likely entering college themselves.
Other colleges have also expanded their support for student parents. Pepperdine University created a task force to support pregnant women, adjusting policies to better suit student parents' needs and building family housing. A donor recently stepped forward to fund a housing scholarship. Abbot Placid Solari and the monks of Belmont Abbey donated land adjacent to Belmont Abbey for "A Room at the Inn," now called Mira-Via, so that women will not feel pressured to terminate either their pregnancies or their educations. Pregnant women and new mothers can now have their babies and continue with school.
Pro-life and pro-choice students came together at Wellesley College to hold a rummage sale benefitting a pregnant student who lost her financial aid for housing. The young woman had her baby and graduated. A University of Virginia student started a babysitting club. Berkeley Students for Life held bake sales to pay for diaper decks. Students for Life at St. Louis University started a scholarship fund for child care. There are many other examples like this as the ideas of Feminists for Life members and supporters go viral.
In 2010, FFL Pregnancy Resource Forums findings became the inspiration for federal grants to states through the Department of Health and Human Services' Pregnancy Assistance Fund. After the first 10 years of FFL's College Outreach Program, Planned Parenthood reported a 30 percent drop in abortions among college-educated women.
Women Deserve Better
Abortion betrays the basic feminist principles of nonviolence, nondiscrimination and justice for all. Abortion is a reflection that we have not met the needs of women—and that women have settled for less. Women deserve better.
Forty years after Sarah Weddington capitulated to inherently unfair practices against pregnant and parenting women, we say no to the status quo. We refuse to choose between women and children.
More than a century ago, the same women who fought for women's rights and for the rights of slaves to be free also fought to protect women and children from abortion. We continue their fight in the spirit of Mattie Brinkerhoff, who wrote in 1869 in The Revolution:
When a man steals to satisfy hunger, we can safely assume that there is something wrong in society—so when a woman destroys the life of her unborn child, it is an evidence that either by education or circumstances she has been greatly wronged.
Feminism was born of abolition. All people are equal. Not all choices are equal. We envision a better day, a day when womanhood is celebrated, mothers are supported, fatherhood is honored and every child is cherished.
If you refuse to choose between women and children, if you work to systematically eliminate the root causes that drive women to abortion, then you already follow in the footsteps of Susan B. Anthony and our other feminist foremothers, whether you call yourself a feminist or not.
In the article, "The Feminist Case Against Abortion" , Serrin Foster supports her purpose of showing America that feminist to not have to support abortion well through the historical evidence on the start of the feminist movement. For example, in the article the author states. "Abortion betrays the basic feminist principles of nonviolence, non discrimination and justice for all"(Foster 1). She is showing the historical realities behind feminism as it started out as an organization of women that were determined to be a non violence, non discrimination and equal justice for all organization. By showing that the original feminists did not feel that abortion was a good thing and that they respected life greatly helps to support her purpose by showing that the ideals of abortion have only snuck their way in because abortion is the easy way out for the women who do not want to take responsibility for their actions. In addition, she later in the article quotes Susan B. Anthony a very well known women's rights activist and feminist did not feel abortion was right, she states, '"Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned.... Perhaps there will come a day when...an unmarried mother will not be despised because of her motherhood...and when the right of the unborn to be born will not be denied or interfered with"'(Foster 1). By integrating this quote into the article the author greatly supports her purpose by giving the historical evidence that even one of the best known women's rights activists was against abortion. She develops a cohesive argument by giving credit to the work that she is doing and thus clearly is able to convey her purpose. Serrin Foster supports her purpose in the article very well through the historical evidence she conveys.
The idea that abortion is, "..an easy way out" is the line of the pro-abortion movement--in and out of the Church, in and out of the feminist movement. Although there is a slowly growing revulsion with the shameful American rate of abortion--backed by the President and his Party---there is a weakness in the strength of our response to this abomination. There is a great danger of becoming Luke warm.
Thank you so much for allowing so much space for this article. It is terrific and especially valuable in taking on the false Pro-Choice narrative.
Imagine how much more powerful Catholic witness on behalf of the Unborn will be once we have honestly confronted our sins against women today and over the centuries.
Thank you so much for this article. The past has so much to teach us! I strongly agree with comment regarding life long formation of the conscience, the soul. I am a cradle Catholic, but, like many at that age, had fallen away from the Church when I found myself college-aged, pregnant, unmarried, and full of dreams for my future that did not include a baby. Abortion was a practical consideration at the time, but my conscience said no - even though it would mean sacrificing, at least for some time, my professional aspirations. In addition to my loving family, many state institutions supported me and my beautiful daughter in the early days, including food stamps, WIC, and medicaid. Looking back I believe that every hour of catechetical formation in my young life had been leading up to that life-changing decision. The holy spirit gave me the courage to choose a path that my upper middle class culture did not always sincerely support. Thank you for your efforts to support women in their college years.
"What if Weddington had used her legal acumen to challenge the system and address women's needs?"
As a Catholic and a person who does not "believe" in abortion, I agree that we should make it easier for women to "choose life." But change comes very slowly. I have waited my entire life for the Catholic church to affirm the contributions of women within the church. I want women priests! This will not happen in my lifetime--all the years of waiting, arguing, and hoping, and I will die with the church being a patriarchal system that controls women through fertility issues. I marched in Right to Life events when I was young! Then, in the mid-70's, my mom got early onset breast cancer. She had chemo and radiation. Bald as a billiard ball, she thought she was pregnant. She told her doctor, and he said, horrified, "There is no way you can have a child. There would be zero chance of having a normal child with all the drugs in your body." She got her blood drawn (this was before instant pregnancy kits) and waited for the answer. These few days were by far the worst days of her life. A devout Catholic, she knew she could never have an abortion. She truly experienced the dark night of the soul. She was not pregnant, but I realized that had she decided to have the pregnancy terminated, I would understand. THEN, suddenly, I got it. If I could understand this one case, I could not judge other women and their choices! I stopped the Right to Life marches, and decided that abortion should be legal and safe. The woman carrying the child must decide what to do. This does not mean that I am "for" abortion! I believe in all efforts to support (not control) pregnant women who are confused, scared and without resources--so that if she WANTS to continue the pregnancy, she has support and resources. In this way, the article is good. But making abortion illegal? NO. NO, NO, NO. Bottom line: I do not trust male hierarchies to "take care of " women. Women must take charge and care for themselves. And for this, they must be in charge of their own bodies. The article cites tragedies of botched abortions. What about women who die in Catholic hospitals because the doctors must never choose a mother's life over the life of the child? These are also tragedies. This is a complex issue. But the parenting centers on college campuses? Great. Let's expand this as much as possible. THIS is a right to life move we can all support. Just don't tread into the area that a patriarchy will "take care of" women. This is a fiction, in and outside of the church.
Also, we must support the important concept of lifelong conscience formation. It is up to the individual to act according to conscience. The church and its dogma, priests, family--all help inform a woman who is facing a complicated pregnancy. Ultimately, the woman must act. It is her soul, it is her conscience, and we must love and not judge. The article gives examples of how we can offer loving support to pregnant woman. These are all great. But legislation against a woman's right to choose? This would lead to so many negative consequences. NO.
Excellent article! It is heartwarming to see a support structure for women being developed to counter the circumstances (including poverty and the convenience of some males) that prompt abortion. It is the field hospital emphasis being advocated by Pope Francis. Let us hope news of this kind does, indeed, "go viral".
It is noteworthy that the article stops short of advocating a return to the days when abortion was illegal. Laws against abortion have the practical effect of sweeping under the rug the "root causes" which must be addressed in order to celebrate and support childbirth in such circumstances.
As Pope Francis has recently emphasized with respect to marriage, it is good to keep the ideals of Christ as beacons for society. But those ideals, embodied in doctrine, should not detract from primary emphasis upon being a field hospital. It is all too easy to convert ideals into law, turning attention away from the "root causes" which the field hospital must address.
Jesus faced this in the Jewish society of his time, which was beholden to the law. Jesus calls us to a different place, distinct from the law but a fulfillment that is beyond the law. St. Thomas understood mercy in this sense (Book I, Q.21, Art.3). The law operates from the outside, the Spirit takes hold from the inside. The law enforces what is necessary for the good order and discipline of society; the Spirit calls us beyond that to what Paul VI called a "civilization of love."
The law has its place, in ancient times (Matt. 5:17) as well as our own. It is regrettable that our society's idealism -- and, indeed, the idealism of our Church -- has too often succumbed to the temptation to turn ideals into laws, seeking love on the cheap without the hard work of the field hospital. The primacy of the field hospital and the primacy of conscience are good antidotes for this temptation.
If this temptation is understood, those who are labeled "pro-choice" and "anti-abortion" will find themselves working together in the field hospital and promoting the actions so passionately described in this article.
This is excellent. My first reaction was to hit like and share on Facebook. But included in my hundred or so Facebook friends ( acquaintances? Barely Know You? ) are some whom I suspect would staunchly retreat into their pro-choice rhetoric because of the wounds in their own lives. I wish I knew a way to share this without ruffling their feathers.
Thankyou for this excellent article. As a woman and as a physician, I believe that it has to remain the mother's decision about whether to end her pregnancy, or hopefully to allow her unborn child to live. Being pregnant can be very hard for some women and even lead to suicide for a woman with an unwanted pregnancy. The celibate men of the Church have always acted as if the unborn child was more important than the mother, in my view. I am grateful to see that this article is acknowledging the plight of the mother as well as the plight of the unwanted unborn child.
Sincerely, Dr Rosemary Eileen McHugh, M.D., M.Spir.
Issues of human sexuality, including contraception and abortion, cannot be resolved in a coherent manner as long as our sacramental theology remains contaminated by patriarchal ideology. Specifically, the exclusively male priesthood is a choice, not a dogma (CIC 1024, CCC 1598). Something is wrong about the church being "pro-life" and choosing to prevent female vocations to the ministerial priesthood. My understanding is that all the sacraments are nuptial, and none was instituted by Christ to be gender-exclusive forever. The dogmatic definition on the institution of the priesthood (Trent 23) clearly states the apostolic requirement but does not mention any masculinity requirement.
With so many nuns who have the "signs of the priesthood," it is lamentable that they cannot be ordained for cultural reasons that have nothing to do with divine revelation. Ordaining nuns to the priesthood would be the right response to the "signs of the times" and the most sensible response to the shortage of priests. Besides, the ordination of women to the priesthood and the episcopacy would be instrumental for integral human development and fostering social and ecological justice. It has been said that "human development, if not engendered, is endangered." Likewise, human ecology without gender balance is endangered. As long as women are excluded from sacramental ministry, can we really say that the church is a sacrament of Christ's presence in the midst of our current ecological predicament?
Well written! We should never have to choose between women and children. We should stand beside women in unimaginably difficult circumstances and give them every opportunity to choose life: change the structures that make the world a place where it is difficult for some women to choose life. We should make this world a place where it is easier for all of us to do good. Many women will need medicine during and after pregnancy to alleviate the effects of complications, and quite a few of us may be told that future pregnancies are not medically safe. There is nothing wrong with family planning. Most women (and men) prefer the most natural (and least invasive) methods that they can find. The author is correct and spot-on here: pregnancy is not a disease. And where pregnancy leads to disease or causes burden for women, society often has much more to make-up for than the pregnant woman herself. We do need to stand with women and make it easier for them to choose life; and we need to walk with women whose situations have not been so fortunate. Nicely done.
We are stuck in the choosing of woman or child to be. I agree, we shouldn't stay stuck here. Start with the woman. Do all we can, personally and as a community and society, to help her have the freedom, the room, the time, the wherewithal to choose life. Cardinal Sean O'Malley said at the pro-life rally in DC, we should start with the woman. In effect he advocated the refusal to choose between woman or child to be. A woman is more than a womb. We have to admit this. We have to show this. That is the Christian way, the gospel way. As I have thought and occasionally said for decades, we are all implicated in abortion. We all fail if there are abortions. To regard women as wombs first and persons second is part of the problem -- rather, it is the problem.
But the solution is not to take away a woman's autonomy. If Right to Life got out of the business of changing laws but only supported initiatives like the ones in the above article, that would be great. It is the idea that women must be controlled through church and secular laws that causes the divide.
Please. You are obviously a thinking person.
Why confuse pro choice with pro abortion?
God gives women a choice just as we are given choices about life in general..
It is your choice to not jump off a building.
We may try to talk with love to you about choosing life but we will not make you risk
Infection or bleeding out or condemnation.
Can you not see that comparison to
Murder only alienates the people who you want to welcome into care and love ?
Eating too much may be "gluttony" in the definitive sense, but are we to use such a term for those people who are obese, gluttons? That would be hardly helpful. Calling a woman a "murderer" for ending her child's life may fit the definition of what has happened, but also, how does that help? Pope Francis talks about "accompanying" our brothers and sisters in their journey to find Christ. A gradualist approach that never ever waters down the Truth but starts where the person is, in the present moment and the encouragement to find the Truth in Christ.


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I very sensibly tried to cut my fingertip off with a pair of tin snips the other day. I damn near did it too, with just about 20% left attached. Since I was also sensible enough not to seek medical attention nor get any stitches, I designed and printed this finger splint to prevent any further trauma while things are healing.
It is sized for my middle finger, and I do have little girly-man hands, so you may have to scale things up or down to suit your needs. I actually hope that no one needs this thing, but I'll be glad if it does help someone who does.
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I just want to say that this finger splint design is the BEST! I broke my finger 6 weeks ago (the tip bone was shattered into four pieces) The splint the hospital gave me was large and cumbersome and I banged it on lots of things making my finger really hurt. The technology teacher printed this off and I've been wearing this for four weeks (I'm about to show the doctors at the hospital tomorrow). Instantly my finger hurt less and I was able to wash my hair with two hands!! It really did give me my life back. Am wondering if we can now develop a second model. This wonderful splint needs air holes in the tip to allow the finger to breathe. The downside to this design is that the finger sweats and as a result the skin will peel. What do you say?????
Thank you so much for the kind words. I'm glad that it helped you out. I've had to use it twice now, and I personally think its best feature is that it can be printed in 1-2 minutes.
The two side slits are there to provide some ventilation, but I admit that they can prove inadequate, especially at the finger tip (as you have pointed out - pardon the pun).
I am unfortunately working overtime these days at work, and my little design time is currently being used to develop a prototype for someone, but I will try to make some time for a V2 of this with air holes. In the mean time I would suggest spending a few minutes with a drill and a 1/16" or 1/8" drill bit. Just remember to take the the splint off first :)
Hope you heal quickly!
Thanks! I've had a wee play using TinkerCad and have managed to put some holes in it. I'm experimenting with two or three holes, three seems to break too easily. Can I send you the files so you could add them here? or alternatively I can upload them here and you grab them off my page, and once I see you have them I'll take the files down again. Don't work too hard!
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Sorry for the looong delay in getting back to you. You can just click "Remix It" at the top-right of the page and upload the files as a remix.
Great thank you !
Scaled it down to 85% for my little finger, but I break it after fews hours, the shell isn't thick enough at this scale.
Very comfortable!
Glad it (sort of) worked for you. You can try putting a layer of tape around it to give it some more strength.
Great thing! I think I will print one as I just made one of http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:72022http://www.thingiverse.com/thi... ;-)
UPDATE - My finger is all healed, and this thing helped tremendously in preventing additional trauma to my finger tip.
Seek medical help also if it smells bad. Otherwise, a nice idea. Someone could manufacture splints for any severe cut or bone fracture.
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You've said to me that you knew going in this was going to be the last year. When did you know? How did you know?
Josh Schwartz: Well, first of all, I knew how on the bubble we were at the end of that season 3. So when we got the call, "We're going to bring you back, and it's going to be for 16 episode," that basically said "the final season." Nobody ever actually said that, and we got a rating spike at the end of season 3 with the Marissa death. Had a pretty good sense of it and you always want to believe that maybe you can bring it back, but we were in a really competitive time period and we were up against "Grey's Anatomy" and it was a monster at that time. Shows like this are not necessarily meant to run forever. It's part of the fun of 'em, but I think we felt like if this was the last season let's go out with a show we can be proud of.
So how did you decide what the finale wound up being?
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That season, you could have contrived to have them all go to UC-Newport Beach, and instead Summer goes off to Brown and Seth and Ryan stay home, and Taylor comes back from France.
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When did "Real Housewives of Orange County" come on? While you were still on the air?
Josh Schwartz: No. "Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County" came on as we were starting season 3, which also contributed to my angst 'cause I was like, "Now it's the real version. How are we going to compete with the real version?" Then "Real Housewives" came on I think a year after we went off the air.
And I ran into ("Desperate Housewives" creator) Marc Cherry a few years ago at some Writers Guild thing, I had never met him before, and he was saying, "When 'The O.C.' went on the air, there were no nighttime serialized dramas really on primetime at that time, and certainly none with comedy, and that gave ABC a sense to put this show on the air." I was like, "Wow, that's really nice. Did you guys have to completely destroy us in the ratings on top of it?" He was really nice. So, it was a moment where there weren't really any teen dramas on, the nighttime soap had kind of fallen off on primetime. And we were able to kind of come in and fill that void. Accidentally. It was just luck.
And you wound up inspiring a reality empire that's still going on.
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Maybe you shouldn't want a piece of that. Maybe your soul is a little cleaner this way.
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