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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
Something else to recommend from all the way back to Feb. 26: Claudia Roth Pierpont on books in and on warfare.
Front-Ranger:
As long as we're on back issues, I'd like to mention the article "Hostages" by David Remnick in the January 22 issue. It is not really about the Israeli hostages but is more about Benjamin Netanyahu, whose portrait appears with the article. As he describes Mr. Netanyahu's career, one wonders how he holds on to power. And there is also a lot of information about Gaza, the Palestinians, and Hamas and its leaders. It was really eye-opening for me.
serious crayons:
The Shouts & Murmurs in the New Yorker that came yesterday is actually (mildly) amusing. It's not a thigh-slapper, but it has some humor to it and avoids the usual wild exaggerations that wreck some S&Ms.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on March 23, 2024, 01:26:34 pm ---It's been my personal experience that people who don't want to be referred to by traditional male or female pronouns can be quite insistent about that and even get offended if you slip up, so I feel they are "insisted upon" rather than "preferred."
I suppose there are some people who don't get offended and just quietly correct you.
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I think it depends. If you're talking about someone who wears makeup and polished fingernails and skirts and high heels and maybe has boobs, etc., and calling them "he" I think it strikes them as a deliberate transphobic insult (and often, if not always, they'd be right).
If you're talking about someone who completely comes across as male or female in facial hair, clothing, etc., and has done nothing to look the part, I think the mistake is more understandable and if they get mad about it, it's on them.
The latter also goes for people who look distinctly like one gender or the other but prefer the pronouns "they/them." Frankly, I think a lot of young people do that to be cool. Or, more charitably, to be good allies.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on March 25, 2024, 03:56:48 pm ---As long as we're on back issues, I'd like to mention the article "Hostages" by David Remnick in the January 22 issue. It is not really about the Israeli hostages but is more about Benjamin Netanyahu, whose portrait appears with the article. As he describes Mr. Netanyahu's career, one wonders how he holds on to power. And there is also a lot of information about Gaza, the Palestinians, and Hamas and its leaders. It was really eye-opening for me.
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Reminds me. I read that article about mini-Trump Matt Gaetz. Talk about a duty article, and a very distasteful one at that, but I felt it was necessary to learn more about him without just accepting that he's an evil, entitled tool, which, of course, he is.
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