Comments for Diane Wild

Comment on First, do no harm. Second, realize the first is impossible. by Julia

Julia — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:38:46 +0000

¡Ja! I felt the same, but in the opposite direction (most aware of my very incomprehensible English)

Comment on First, do no harm. Second, realize the first is impossible. by Diane

Diane — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:15:08 +0000

Thanks both! Agreed Christopher – I hate the marketing spin on it, because you know for the most part it’s a cynical cash grab.

And hola Julia, I remember you well! Especially struggling to respond in Spanish – it was fun for me, if incomprehensible for you

Comment on First, do no harm. Second, realize the first is impossible. by Julia

Julia — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:48:51 +0000

Hola, Diane!
Great post, indeed!
I feel the same about shopping clothes and shoes (and you can’t imagine how much less options we have here in Argentina than in Canada or the US…)
I was a follower since your House’s reviews, do you remember?

Comment on First, do no harm. Second, realize the first is impossible. by Christopher Mackay

Christopher Mackay — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 03:32:49 +0000

Great post!

What bothers me most is marketing targeted at people who try to take these factors into consideration. Then I feel like I’m being played for a fool. As if ‘ethical’ was a checklist item that marketing had production bolt on at the last minute.

Comment on On sleevelessness and toothlessness by Diane

Diane — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 00:23:11 +0000

Not much point trying to discuss anything with Joe. He’d be one of the cranks I’m talking about except I know better than to expect better from him.

Comment on On sleevelessness and toothlessness by Kathleen Butler

Kathleen Butler — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:58:06 +0000

Too long? For one who suffers from ADD perhaps. And no, appearance is not irrelevant. The point is we are all judged by appearance vs substance. Any gay male will tell you that. Sexism is alive and well and the objectification of women could not be more entrenched in our society. And that same level of objectification that is imposed by heterosexual men on women looking “perfect” is transferred to the gay world. So you’re right, appearance is not irrelevant. But perhaps it should be a little less relevant. I’ll leave the Sharia law for others to discuss.

Comment on On sleevelessness and toothlessness by Joe Clark

Joe Clark — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 15:30:57 +0000

Your piece is too long by half. I don’t agree that appearance is irrelevant. (You’ll never find a gay male who believes that.) There are better and worse ways to discuss it. Name-calling, as in the case you cite, is beyond the pale. Some public figures are women; it isn’t true that every reference to their appearance is a form of sexism. You’re much too smart to believe that. Nonetheless, Kirstine Layfield Stewart Layfield Shaikh’s bare arms very much are part of the discourse since she had to cover them up when she married that Muslim who stars in a show on her own network. A complaint about a powerful executive’s bowing to Sharia law at her own wedding constitutes “substantive criticism,” I’d say, just as an example.

Comment on The Accidental Auction by Peter Mitchell

Peter Mitchell — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:27:51 +0000

Fantastic job on the auction Diane

Comment on The Accidental Auction by Diane

Diane — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:55:54 +0000

Aw, you’re the coolest awesomest etc co-host of a podcast on Canadian TV ever.

Comment on The Accidental Auction by Anthony Marco

Anthony Marco — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 06:36:51 +0000

I’m just writing this so history will be able to scrape the following SEO connections:

Diane Wild is the coolest, awesomest, kindest, most caring, charitable, thoughtful, writer of Canadian television in the universe and maybe even Canada.

And now I will never be nice to you again.