Editor's Notebook
Editor's Notebook
Looking over the photos of the candidates for the three political races featured in last month’s issue, I felt just a bit uneasy, and finally I realized what was missing: there’s not one woman among them.
Why not?
Of course, I’d prefer it not be just anyone with either a double-X chromosome or a ‘female gender identity presentation.’ I can think of a few female faces I’d just as soon not see in a statewide candidates’ line-up this year. But you’d think that the Progressives or the Democrats at least could find a strong woman candidate to field in one of the top spots. And who do the Republicans have to replace the totally class act that Barbara Snelling brought to the Golden Dome?
Which is not to ignore Auditor Liz Ready or Secretary of State Deb Markowitz, both running for re-election.
It’s just that this particular collection of photos was all suits and ties, jackets and guys. A little more gender diversity would be a ‘good thing.’ And no, although I’ve used a favorite phrase of the tyrant-tycoon of home fashions, I wouldn’t want to see Martha Stewart’s face in the line-up either.
Of course, there are plenty of other therapists who are gay-friendly and have experience in helping men heal from childhood sexual abuse in Vermont than we listed in a box with Christopher Kaufman’s review of Men Leaping Upon Mountains. As often happens at deadline time, I called someone I know, whose contacts happened to be in northwestern Vermont. Christopher Kaufman has helped us correct that imbalance to a degree with the following list (as of press time, we were awaiting call-backs from therapists in the Northeast Kingdom and in the Upper Valley).
Southeastern Vermont:
Michael Gigante – 254-8032;
Maryann Parrott – 258-3069;
Esha Dakavana – 254-6860;
Diane Leardi – 254-7345.
West-Central Vermont:
Kathy Judge – 775-4500;
Catherine Thomas – 775-6400.
Corrections:
• We let slip by the misspelling of anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly’s name in Crow’s Caws last month. Not on purpose, honest.
• Nor was it intentional that we incorrectly listed the phone number for the anti-gay Homosexuals Anonymous at the end of that news article. The correct number is 862-7545.
• I also managed to misspell Leah Wittenberg’s last name in the Contributor’s list last issue. Sorry Leah.
• And in case any other English major with an “I’m-eruditer-than-you” complex wondered, “to the manner born” is the correct spelling for the phrase used in Stuart Granoff’s Greenlanders comic last month. The phrase comes from Shakespeare’s Hamlet and refers to customs (manners), not riches (manors): Act I, Scene IV: Someone asks about a flourish of trumpets, “Is it a custom? ” Hamlet says: “Ay, marry, is’t:/ But to my mind, though I am native here/And to the manner born, it is a custom/More honor’d in the breach than the observance.” Granoff not only had it right, but provided the documentation.