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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
I have to admit I'm reading and enjoying the article about the Dubai princesses (May 8 ). That is, their story is horrifying, but I'm enjoying reading it.
serious crayons:
Aaauuuggghhh! On your recommendation I started the article last night. I going to continue reading it and hope to be able to finish it. I'm usually open to horrifying stories of misogyny but this one is particularly brutal. Whenever I hear about stuff like this I'm chilled thinking not of just the main narrative but of all the many thousands of years and millions or maybe billions of women enduring horrible treatment, and although nowadays it's more common in Middle Eastern cultures, it has certainly historically been an element, and still is to some extent, of Western societies as well.
P.S. Curious about my "millions or maybe billions" above, I guess it should have been obvious, but I asked Google how many humans had ever lived on the earth. Google said 117 billion, so somewhere around 58.5 billion women. Not all brutalized, of course, and it's probably impossible to get even a rough count based on modern tendencies. But "billions" was obviously correct.
Jeff Wrangler:
I hope I'll have some time later today to write some more about what I consider TNY's curious use of capitalization with direct quotations, with examples from the Dubai princesses article. ;D
There is so much more in that issue that I want to read, such as the articles about Paul Schrader, Jackie Kennedy, and Waco.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 09, 2023, 05:29:06 pm ---Today I read for the second time Rebecca Mead's review of "Spare" by Prince Harry and J. R. Moehringer, the ghostwriter. She was struck by the many parallels to the play Hamlet in the book and has admiration for Moehringer.
--- End quote ---
Speak of the devil. There is an article "The Ghostwriter" by Moehringer in the latest issue that arrived today.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on May 11, 2023, 06:50:47 pm ---Speak of the devil. There is an article "The Ghostwriter" by Moehringer in the latest issue that arrived today.
--- End quote ---
Can't wait to read it! Most of the articles in the ToC looked worth checking into.
Meanwhile, I was going through old TNYs and came across a funny Shouts & Murmurs. I'd read it before, but it was worth rereading: it's in the voice of a kid in school writing a profile of his great-grandfather, back in his youth on earth, before the earth was destroyed by the Climate Apocalypse (and some humans escaped to a different planet). It's genuinely funny and also makes a good point, and not the scoldy one about climate change you might imagine. Writer was Simon Rich who, according to TNY's bio, is a comedian, an author and has written a handful of other things for TNY, including that S&M in which God talked like a regular parent. (But not, as I was hoping, the one about the guy planning to leave MAGAland; wish I could remember enough about that one to google it.)
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/09/05/when-i-was-a-boy-back-before-earth-got-too-hot-to-live-on
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/02/and-the-lord-said-youve-got-a-time-out-mister
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