My Katharine Hepburn
This post may rub some the wrong way. I put forth some opinions which are not popular. I'm simply chronicling my experiences with my ex-wife. Katharine (misspelled in the above quote) Hepburn has long been regarded as a "feminist icon," which, as a matter of fact, led my ex's mother (my ex-mother-in-law; gotta love these ever-expanding titles) to choose Katharine Hepburn as my ex's namesake. She changed the spelling to Katherine. What on earth does Katharine Hepburn have to do with me, you ask? My segues are brilliant. Hey, I'll tell you. Here's a quote from Hepburn's 2003 obituary at The Guardian : "By the time she went to Hollywood in 1932, Hepburn was regarded as difficult and lofty. Her first employer, David O Selznick, was horrified: she wasn't beautiful, she wasn't sexy, she talked back, she didn't flatter fools. How could she survive?" Yep, that sounds familiar. Though she displayed a virulent and earl...