"Oh, if you knew my dreams! My vaulting ambition…"

-Zora Neal Thurston


First and foremost, the article for this week's blog comes from "Bitch Magazine: Feminist Response to Pop Culture". Although this is not the focus of my blog, it is important to me to address this name. When I began reading some of the entries I agreed, with much of what several of the authors were saying, but the fact that it is called "Bitch Magazine" is somewhat disappointing. Why would a group of woman advocating for female equality and such use a derogatory term, especially one that is way overused and often in an incorrect manner? It seems somewhat pointless and just more "in your face" than necessary to use this as a name.
That being said, this article I read "The Ambition Condition" had a lot of insight into the world women writers are live in, a world despite how much we hate to admit it, is dominated by men. The fact is that women who seek success and ambition are often portrayed as spiteful and domineering. Many examples are given of movies such as the "Devil Wears Prada". Women writers who seek success through their writing, often don't admit it and make it seem as if it's something they just do on the "for fun". To put it bluntly this sucks. Why is a women who wants success in the business world categorized as a "bitch" or forced to choose between a family and a career?

The Ambition Condition