<html><head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: 'Bell MT', sans-serif; "><div><div><div>I agree, Melanie.</div><div><br></div><div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Kimberly Coates, Ph.D.</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Associate Professor of English</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Affiliate Faculty Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/American Culture Studies</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Bowling Green State University</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Bowling Green, OH 43403</font></font></div><div style="color: rgb(127, 0, 127); font-size: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(127, 0, 127)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Bell MT">Office Phone: 419-372-9189</font></font></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Arial; font-size:14pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Melanie White <<a href="mailto:melanie.white@comcast.net">melanie.white@comcast.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 4:24 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Kimberly Coates <<a href="mailto:kimbec@bgsu.edu">kimbec@bgsu.edu</a>>, 'Gregory Jordan Dekter' <<a href="mailto:jdekter@gmail.com">jdekter@gmail.com</a>>, 'Anne Margaret Daniel' <<a href="mailto:daniela@newschool.edu">daniela@newschool.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Cc: </span> "<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> RE: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides<br></div><div><br></div><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 12 (filtered medium)"><style><!--
/* Font Definitions */
@font-face
{font-family:"Cambria Math";
panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Calibri;
panose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:Tahoma;
panose-1:2 11 6 4 3 5 4 4 2 4;}
@font-face
{font-family:"Bell MT";
panose-1:2 2 5 3 6 3 5 2 3 3;}
/* Style Definitions */
p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
{margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:12.0pt;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";}
a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:blue;
text-decoration:underline;}
a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
{mso-style-priority:99;
color:purple;
text-decoration:underline;}
p.MsoAcetate, li.MsoAcetate, div.MsoAcetate
{mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text Char";
margin:0in;
margin-bottom:.0001pt;
font-size:8.0pt;
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.hoenzb
{mso-style-name:hoenzb;}
span.BalloonTextChar
{mso-style-name:"Balloon Text Char";
mso-style-priority:99;
mso-style-link:"Balloon Text";
font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif";}
span.EmailStyle20
{mso-style-type:personal-reply;
font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:windowtext;
font-weight:normal;
font-style:normal;}
.MsoChpDefault
{mso-style-type:export-only;
font-size:10.0pt;}
@page WordSection1
{size:8.5in 11.0in;
margin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}
div.WordSection1
{page:WordSection1;}
--></style><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapedefaults v:ext="edit" spidmax="1026" />
</xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
<o:shapelayout v:ext="edit">
<o:idmap v:ext="edit" data="1" />
</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">Apart from VW, the characters in The Hours were fictional, and VW’s death was decades ago, whereas Iris Chang’s family and loved ones probably are still very much processing
their grief over her suicide. The image of her was breathtakingly insensitive and offensive to me for that reason.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; ">From:</span></b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Tahoma, sans-serif; "> <a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a> [<a href="mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">mailto:vwoolf-bounces@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Kimberly Coates<br><b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, June 18, 2013 12:27 PM<br><b>To:</b> Gregory Jordan Dekter; Anne Margaret Daniel<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">Greg:<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">There is no comparison. The VICE spread is using suicide to sell fashion and in doing so it glamorizes and aestheticizes female bodies in pain. It also takes our attention
far away from the amazing work all of these women accomplished. You would think that in an issue announcing itself as covering Women's Fiction that the work would be their concern. Whatever you want to say about Michael Cunningham and/or the film version of
his novel The Hours, he isn't guilty of promoting suicide to sell shoes and vintage attire!<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">Kim<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Kimberly Coates, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Associate Professor of English<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Affiliate Faculty Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies/American Culture Studies<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Bowling Green State University<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Bowling Green, OH 43403<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 8.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(127, 0, 127); ">Office Phone: 419-372-9189<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div style="border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">From:
</span></b><span style="font-size: 14pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: black; ">Gregory Jordan Dekter <<a href="mailto:jdekter@gmail.com">jdekter@gmail.com</a>><br><b>Date: </b>Tuesday, June 18, 2013 3:08 PM<br><b>To: </b>Anne Margaret Daniel <<a href="mailto:daniela@newschool.edu">daniela@newschool.edu</a>><br><b>Cc: </b>"<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>" <<a href="mailto:vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a>><br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Vwoolf] staging female author suicides<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">I'm just wondering of those who oppose this, are you equally offended by the portrayal of the same event in "The Hours"?<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">On 18 June 2013 15:03, Anne Margaret Daniel <<a href="mailto:daniela@newschool.edu" target="_blank">daniela@newschool.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">VICE has removed the online photos, not apologizing very much ("to anyone who was hurt or offended") and stating, defensively, that their "main goal is to create artful
images, with the fashion message following, rather than leading." Taken down online, but still in print.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">Here is the Vice statement: <a href="http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6" target="_blank">http://www.vice.com/read/last-words-000741-v20n6</a><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">And here, still online at Inquisitr, is the photo of the model portraying Woolf, standing in water and holding a large stone. No words for it, really.<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/" target="_blank">http://www.inquisitr.com/793059/vices-suicide-fashion-apology/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; ">On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 1:59 PM, Melanie White <<a href="mailto:melanie.white@comcast.net" target="_blank">melanie.white@comcast.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617" target="_blank">http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/06/18/193014174/book-news-vice-draws-ire-by-staging-female-author-suicides?utm_source&utm_medium=facebook&utm_campaign=20130617</a></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; "> </span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: black; ">Someone said this has been taken down now.
</span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu" target="_blank">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><br><br clear="all"><o:p></o:p></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span class="hoenzb"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">--
</span><span style="color:#888888"><o:p></o:p></span></span></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); ">AMDaniel<o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><a href="http://www.annemargaretdaniel.com" target="_blank">www.annemargaretdaniel.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: rgb(136, 136, 136); "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><br>
_______________________________________________<br>
Vwoolf mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu">Vwoolf@lists.service.ohio-state.edu</a><br><a href="https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf" target="_blank">https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/vwoolf</a><o:p></o:p></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 9.5pt; font-family: 'Bell MT', serif; color: black; "><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></div></div></div></div></span></body></html>