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Amy Davidson's blog was short and to the point. However she was able to deliver some great imagery while talking about this shameful man, Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The idea of him seeing women like "...barbies at the bottom of a toy bin." gives the reader a strong sense of how appreciated women are to him. The bottom of the toy bin; the toys who live there are the ones you only bother digging out when you can't find something better. Or maybe when you can't rape the hotel maid. I hadn't heard of Strauss-Kahn prior to this blog (don't judge e to harshly for being out of the loop) so I goggled him. According to Wikipedia, he is a hard working French man with 4 beautiful children and is currently happily married to his 3rd wife; I wonder how much longer that's going to last...Nothing was mentioned of fancy sex parties exclusively for the super rich, no rape allegations. However according to BBC news, he's a well know regular of French prostitutes. This blog lead me to the question: at what point does a man like Strauss-Kahn become sex-able? Yeah, he might be an influential French man, but he's also really old; and not to be age-ist, but highly you attractive if you ask me. At what point (or maybe the better question is at what amount) does he become the guy for you? This applies both, I feel to his wives and to these prostitutes. And with all of this sex do seemingly readily available what is it that makes him try to rape a hotel maid and then dare to make the excuse that he thought she was a hooker. How rude and degrading is that? The line that stuck out to me in this piece was where Davidson asks us, "Can you distinguish a politician in a cell from any other jailed man?" I would like to be able to answer "NO!" to this, but that would be a lie. In American at least, being a politician or a celebrity means that the normal rules of society are not your rules. At what point (or amount of net worth) does a person become unaccountable? In the She Writes blog, by Marion Roach Smith, I was drawn to thinking back to Coopers work in Maps to Anywhere. She tells future writers "what will not work is the phrase, "This is a tragedy and the illustration is my marriage", which is too big.". Writing a story of your life can be difficult I'm sure. What parts are crucial to include? Which parts are essential to the entertainment of my readers? Smith suggests you chose a pivotal point, an "ah ha moment" that the story is based around. This is what reminded me of Coopers work. Though I hadn't thought of it this way before, that's what Cooper did, and what I enjoyed do much about his work. It was all built around a moment of learning, learning how to live with death. Smith then goes on, telling her readers that are to be the "picture in the frame"' and simultaneously that they should not be the main focus of their writing. That's where she lost me, I don't understand how those two concepts go together....but I kept right on reading anyways and found her analogy of Galileo trying to find a small, specific part amongst all the many objects of a store (I prefer to think of him in Target, where I'm personally more easily distracted!). "You must speed-shop your overstocked whiz-bang subconscious..." Not an easy task. Her analogy did make it very clear, in this instance, to understand the tricks if trade she is trying to impart. Im glad the blog by Akiba Solomon was short. I hate reading about people's opinions of celebrities, what could possibly be more pointless. I guess I have a bias. What I did notice about it was the battle between "prettiness" and "ugliness" rearing it's head throughout the blog. The quotes Solomon chose to incorporate, all talking about how it's too bad this baby is ugly and looks "back" were some of the ugliest writing I've had to read. Like the Facebook statuses of people too ghetto for me to understand (maybe that's a little rude, but I'm just trying to be honest.). What gets too me is that after these ugly words he says he enjoys reading about people's relationship with beauty because "people can be so ugly, but words are pretty." Sometimes. It all just comes down to the persons point of view. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder they say, maybe we should just leave it that way...