“Hey! Don’t pick fights!” We can hear our teachers and parents echoing this advice from childhood. Chances are you have said these words to a young person as well. But what do we really mean when we tell children not to “pick” fights? Well, we are telling them not to be bulli...
Many authors use malapropism in their novels and short stories as well. For example, Barbara Kingsolver, inThe Poisonwood Bible, provides her character Rachel with reckless malaprops such as “feminine wilds” instead of “feminine wiles” and her reference to the Christian “system of marriage call...
Let’s face it, the list of reasons that women are given for not being allowed to engage in combat is a mile long: we’d distract the men with our feminine wiles (sorry, now that DADT has been technically eradicated – FINALLY – the issue of enticement shouldn’t hold water in terms...
It makes me ill, that all the work we are trying to accomplish, saying that everyone is equal, is not the case. Demonizing Jefferson is not the way. In fact, he took care of her, and the reason her grandkids found out is because she had a photo of him. Does it make it right?