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from the pando article this references: > We are now in a post-Susan Fowler world, I think I know what the author was trying to say, but that's a really weird
by V-eHGsd_ 9y ago
from the pando article this references:
> We are now in a post-Susan Fowler world,
I think I know what the author was trying to say, but that's a really weird way to say it. Susan is most definitely still alive and well. Susan wasn't an event, like 9/11. she is a woman with a lot of courage who wrote about a series of terrible things that happened to her.
- refurb 9y agoBy putting the word "post-" in front of something, it makes the author sound smart. That's why they do it.
- Bakary 9y agoI honestly think this is the real thought process behind things like these, even though it sounds a little cheeky.
- jikeo 9y agoThey said on hacker news. Personally I don't really see the problem. If you want to argue for a different state of things after some event, "post" seem like the correct word. Just like you would say "post war period". You might of course think that the statement itself is pretentious. But at least they argue their case, i.e the importance of her actions, in the article.
- V-eHGsd_ 9y agoright. I don't think it's pretentious per-se, I just think it's really odd, like from a literary, use-of-the-english-language perspective. anyway, I just saw on the news that the serial-assaulter resigned, or has decided to take a travis (a leave of absence followed by a resignation), so that's a good thing.