“If a man were to make it his purpose to take a true aim with a spear or arrow at some mark, his ultimate end, corresponding to the ultimate good as we pronounce it, would be to do all he could to aim straight: the man in this illustration would have to do everything to aim s...
WhenIntercoursewas first published in 1987 it was met with both stunned silence and a stunning level of virulent misogyny, aimed squarely at Andrea, rarely noting or dealing with anything substantial from the text itself. It, like Andrea, was ridiculed in the press and rejected in powerful socia...
A hypercorrection is a correction that's actually false—like saying 'between you and I' instead of 'between you and me.'
Pete asks Zade how to pronounce her name: “Yep, like ‘aide’ but add a Z.” I grinned; I appreciated it immensely when people took the time to learn how to say my name properly. I hated it when people called me “Zaad” or something like that, which sounded more like a car or...
funnier), but also mocking homophobic anxieties over soap-dropping in the shower or leaving childcare to two daddies.”“Many of the gags in I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry are a little too ‘Some of my best friends are gay’ to be particularly smart,” wrote Stephanie Zacharek in ...
“I’ll go home and do the Sydney toff” he pronounces, boldly. He’s one of those straight dudes that think gay guys are always hitting on them. He reacts to being pranked by attempting to kill the barber and his fellow patrons, and takes the story home as evidence of the ...