Einstein Letter

[Henry]

Yes, you're right Laura, I was a little offensive there. Thanks. I value your thoughts on this, but for better or for worse, a college-boy wouldn't use that color unless he was making a point as gay or feminine, and so, perhaps, neither should a woman.  Certainly none of the Traverse boys would, but I do believe that Yashmeen would use it carefully, i.e. in letters to other girls or to a lover.  In the not so distant past, I was the recipient of lavender-inked letters: I was a young man, and all the purple-prose was from young women.  Those letters were earnest, but no more appropriate for public discourse than my dysgraphic handwriting would be in any color.

 

To be aware of cultural norms is no more sexist than recognizing potch-tanses as curious, and perhaps even joking a little about them, would be ethnocentric/jingoistic, there being little, if any implication of superiority.  College boys simply didn't have those couple-on-the-beach-watching-the-sunset “Happiness is” posters in their rooms, and the girls didn't have the inch of dirt on the floor.  

 

Or have things changed to such an unimaginable (by me, at least) extent?

HENRY MU

http://www.urdomain.us/scuffling.htm 

 

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Laura



Your point would be better made without the sexist innuendo.

 

Laura

 

-----Original Message-----

>From: Henry 

 

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>A-and next time, how about losing the college-girl plump lavender font?

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>From: Ivana

> 

Dear Albert,

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