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Femme du Jour: Idgie Threadgoode
For me Fried Green Tomatoes has always been the ultimate tale of loyalty and friendship. Growing up I worshiped the ground Idgie barefootedly walked on: the way she refused to conform to society’s ideas of femininity or how she never backed down even in the face of torch wielding KKK brethren.
I hope to channel Miss Threadgoode this Thanksgiving, not in her stubbornness (I’ll reserve that for every other day), but rather in her Southern hospitality. I plan on spending the remainder of my day baking so that I might charm the pants off tomorrow’s dinner-goers. While I’m not likely to challenge an entire swarm of bees for a single jar of honey (Brooklyn isn’t exactly crawling with honeybees, not to mention I’m fresh out of epinephrine), but I can’t promise there won’t be any barbecuing of abusive husbands on my watch!
Femme du Jour: Lois Jenson
It is because of Jenson’s efforts that American women can set foot in the workplace, whether it be a steel mine or an office building, without the threat of gender-based discrimination or sexual harassment. A welfare mother of two, and one of the first female miners in the history of the Eveleth iron mine in northern Minnesota, Jenson is the first woman to ever win a sex discrimination case in the United States. Her class action law suit forged a new set of laws against sexual harassment and discrimination that are still respected in the American workplace. (Above: Charlize Theron as Josey Aimes in North Country, a film based on Jenson’s struggle and eventual victory against the Eveleth Taconite Company.)
