Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Laughter, Pleasure, Malice, and the Pursuit of Adult Fun

Gina Barreca, Ph.D. is Professor of English at UConn, and author of It's Not That I'm Bitter: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Visible Panty Lines and Conquered the World. See full bio

March 20, 2009, Anxiety

Comments on "Scrabble or Monopoly, Smollett or Diapers?"

Scrabble or Monopoly, Smollett or Diapers?

By Regina Barreca, Ph.D. on March 20, 2009 in Snow White Doesn't Live Here Anymore

I'd give up Scrabble for Monopoly. I'd give up The New Yorker for People. I would give up the paintings of Van Gogh for The Simpsons. I would give up Marilyn Monroe for Mae West, T.S. Eliot for George Eliot, Arthur Miller for Tennessee Williams, Ernest Hemingway for Virginia Woolf, Woody Allen for Lily Tomlin, Naomi Wolf for Cynthia Heimel, Andy Rooney for Dave Barry, and Andy Warhol for a flip-top soup can.

i would rather fight than switch

Submitted by hk on March 20, 2009 - 8:19am.

from living in boston to anywhere else in the world, and i no longer care if people often think i am bizarre for this reason. this was a good question.

i would rather fight than switch

Submitted by hk on March 20, 2009 - 8:19am.

from living in boston to anywhere else in the world, and i no longer care if people often think i am bizarre for this reason. this was a good question.

GREAT SUBJECT!

Submitted by PP on March 20, 2009 - 8:58am.

GOTTA THINK ABOUT IT BUT REALLY LIKE THE IDEA ALOT. THANKS!

Mae for Marilyn

Submitted by PKB on March 20, 2009 - 1:48pm.

Let's see: I'd definitely pick Marilyn over Mae, candles over energy-saving bulbs, flowers over squirrels (i.e.--would literally sacrifice TEN squirrels for one surviving tulip), sun over trees, novels over poetry, oceans over lakes and I'm with you most on this one: I'd rather be tall than short. But here's a dilemma--I do NOT want to be blonde and can't figure out if I'd rather be short and brunette or tall and blonde--I swear, I really can't. Very tricky stuff, this CHOICE business.

I wouldn't give up my publishing job

Submitted by Niamh on March 22, 2009 - 11:13am.

for the fancy, super-paying jobs in finance that my allow my friends to live in brownstones in Manhattan. I'll start thinking of better paying jobs when I have to start thinking about dependents (children or boyfriends alike). I'm having too much fun in this ever-changing albeit quirky industry.

Like Gina, I'd gladly give up red wine for high heels that don't hurt my feet. There isn't much I'd give up my iPhone for, but I would gladly trade it in for more face-to-face contact with friends and family spread across the world.

But I would never, ever give up chocolate.