Re: [wc] finally, a chat!

Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:03:22 -0700

Yeah, that's the same crowd the 'school' guy in the Post is writing to.  It's weird for me, because I know I'm a woman of privilege, mostly by dint of education (and I hope, one day, money), but a lot of the debates that go around those circles and get reported in the major East Coast media, just mystify me. 

(Of course, I have no children, and do not intend to have any, so the whole thing's moot for me anyway.)

On 9/26/06, Ray Bradley < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Gene would be proud because I didn't willingly drive from Arlington to
Rockville to ogle a hot young writer who turns out books on the horrors
of sororities, old clubs at Ivy League schools, or stressed out
overachieving school kids. The young woman, Alexandra Robbins is pretty
attractive, but, come on. It's not like she's infiltrating a militant
terrorist group or uncovering some plot by the auto makers to make seat
belts out of balsa wood. She's writing about college girls, secretive
old boys clubs, and nerdy band geeks with 4.0s and pushy parents.

It's like her books cater to the cul-de-sac and minivan crowd, where
well-mannered suburban book clubs gather, gush over her carefully-
culled scary statistics - "18% of all sorority girls eat caramel IN THE
NUDE!" or "2 people from the Skull and Bones have appeared on
OPRAH!!!" - and make all the hausfraus et les hommes des maison cluck
and tutter and say that "truly, something must be done about this."

And, if you're thinking I'm writing all this because I'm kinda mad I
didn't go and at least ATTEMPT to buy her a coffee or something, yeah,
you're right :)

- Ray

--- In [email protected], "Hannah Robinson"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Why would Gene be proud that you didn't flirt with a hot writer? For
> that matter, why didn't you flirt with the hot writer?
>
> On 9/26/06, Ray Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >
>


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