Watch your adjectives NYT
Posted on April 20, 2008
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Today the NYT presented an interesting and archaic review of the book “I Lost My Love in Baghdad;” a memoir written by a man who lost the woman he loved in Iraq.
The adjectives to describe the woman: “young, lovely, idealistic.” Then it says,
The decision to send this young woman to a 90-minute meeting in an increasingly dangerous part of western Baghdad, with representatives of a Sunni political party that had ambiguous relations with insurgents, was a terrible mistake, but not an incomprehensible one.
I think sending ANYONE to a dangerous part of Baghdad, no matter if they are Iraqi, American, man or woman is a mistake.
Modern war love stories are no longer modern, and women are no longer stereotypically “lovely.”
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