Issue the first.
This is an excerpt from the New York Times Magazine editorials page, May 25, 2008:
"When will we realize that it is equally important to raise girls to be sensitive, compassionate, smart individuals with intact values, not to mention healthy, intact knees."
There was another example I found in the Smithsonian Magazine, but I can't find it again and it's pissing me off. The NY Times! The Smithsonian! It's worse than I thought.
Issue the second.
Am I really the only person who's ever seen Felix the Cat: The Movie?
Monday
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Seriously? Girls are already raised under tremendous pressure to be "sensitive" and "compassionate"; any girls I have are going to be raised to kick ass and take names, and I can assure that there will be skinned knees involved. (Although at least the article went for "intact knees" and not "intact hymens", even though you know they totally wanted to, especially to go with that whole "intact values" crap. :P)
I really wish I had found that other quote. It would have made everything so much clearer.
While the sentence is pretty ridiculous in and of itself, I was actually commenting on the fact that it's a rhetorical question that doesn't use a question mark.
That intact knees thing just made me have flashbacks to my kneecap episode of 07. [shudder]
I haven't seen Felix the Cat, but I have seen nbmnxcat. Just now.
I remembered your other post on that subject after the fact, right about the time I realized that I'd veered off in another direction. D'oh! I read too many political blogs, and they angry up the blood, which is hard to recover from.
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