She needs a Law or a Principle or a verb. I don't even know what it would refer to, but it should exist.
ok, so the Edwards principal is when you, say, reproduce the Magna Carta, call it your own work, then push forward (fake?) family members to smite all doubters, and then go on to liken yourself to a downtrodden tribe (to which you have seem to have no relation, but also seem to have profited mightily from via your writing, which - see above) and then continue to try to suck pity for simply coming up with the simile at all and then...
I vote for naming this whateveritis hubri-plagaris [yes, going snobby latin, but this angers me]. And making it a vice, not a law.
And I'll quit being all offputting now and go back to making inedible chili.
We've already made it, eh? Nice to get that news.
I do think she has a point about boys getting left behind by school agendas these days - it's a complaint I've heard from friends with sons in the public school system. But it's not as if we live in this wonderful world where equal rights for women are a given and gender-based discrimination is a thing of the past.
I always wonder, when after a period of trying to equalize things for one group, the other, previously advantaged, group says that now they're the ones who are losing out, if it's a matter of them being pushed aside or if they take being advantaged as the standard and anything less is a loss.
The political moment for feminine role models, arguably, has passed us by.
So we get 30 years of feminine political role models and it's over?
Kate Harding at Shakespeare's Sister has a great response to Lorrie Moore.
Kate Harding at Shakespeare's Sister has a great response to Lorrie Moore.
That's fantastic. Thanks.
For as much as I want to see the racist and sexist campaign bullshit come to a swift end, I can't abide the new meme that now we all need to ignore race and sex and focus on "the issues." Race and sex are not separate from "the issues" in this contest; for as long as Clinton has a vagina and Obama has brown skin, they will be smack dab among the issues with enormous relevance to the upcoming elections and the future of this country. To interpret a race that includes the first viable African-American and female candidates in history any other way is ... well, fiction.
Oh thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou.
