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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 07, 2019, 08:44:40 am ---Maybe I didn't read that blog post closely enough, but I thought the guy was just referring to Mr., Mrs., etc. But all newspapers use Sen., Sec. and Dr. (the last only for MDs, however -- sorry, Indiana!). The point of those is to identify who they are, not to be extra polite. They don't want readers saying, "Wait, who is this McConnell guy and what does he have to do with anything?" But I suppose the NYT would use Sen. McConnell on second reference, whereas other papers would say Sen. on first reference then switch to just McConnell.
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Going forward, then, do you suppose they would ask Hillary Clinton what she would prefer (Sen.? Sec.?--or Mrs.?)? Otherwise they would have a double standard on their hands, and I'm sure that wouldn't go over very well.
Front-Ranger:
I just finished the piece about Prince. Strange that he selected a guy who had never authored a book to help him write his autobiography. The guy, Dan Piepenbring, must have really aced the essay question about his relationship to Prince's music.
He has written mostly reviews for TNY. A piece in June examined the cynical politics of Donald Duck:
https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-book-that-exposed-the-cynical-politics-of-donald-duck
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 08, 2019, 04:19:24 pm ---Going forward, then, do you suppose they would ask Hillary Clinton what she would prefer (Sen.? Sec.?--or Mrs.?)? Otherwise they would have a double standard on their hands, and I'm sure that wouldn't go over very well.
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Well, there's one good reason why they should drop it -- statuses of women change and they'd have to worry about keeping up. And obviously the whole custom of designated women's status by their title, but men not, has sexist foundations.
Don't people have enough to worry about today just with pronouns? What do non-binary people choose as their preferred honorific? Don't make this more difficult than it was to be, NYT!
Front-Ranger:
Often I think the fashion issue will not contain much that I find interesting but the September 9 issue had several good articles by excellent writers. An example is "The Gay Genealogist" by Rebecca Mead, an excellent writer, about Matthew Lopez, also an excellent writer. Lopez has written an update of the E.M. Forster novel Howard's End that is bound for Broadway, and I was struck by Forster's heroine's motto "Only connect." It seems to me that I read somewhere else recently of a person whose motto was "Always connect." I'll have to look up the coincidence. I'm starting to collect coincidences.
serious crayons:
I've heard of "only," but not of "always."
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