I haven’t posted on here for a little while – I’ve been saving all my top material for a bunch of conference papers I’m giving (that’s my excuse, anyway). But I couldn’t not share this with the world, even though everyone who reads this blog is likely to have seen it anyway.
I have absolute confidence that far better minds than mine will soon offer a far more entertaining dissection of this nasty piece of writing (with a dash of sexism, if you look closely) than I could provide. I won’t therefore waste my valuable (and, by the way, unfunded) study time on such a dissection – for me it is enough to know that it can be done, and will be. Several of the comments beneath it offer an excellent start.
I encourage you to spread the word about this. The fact that people are thinking like this is extremely significant – and also quite interesting. Like many irrelevancies, the issue warrants serious study.
Will Tattersdill
Oh my god… I’ve had to stop reading this because it’s made me too angry. I hope I never meet this man in person.