To secretaries, who constituted 6 percent of the American work force then, Redactron word processors arrived in an office like a trunk of magic tricks, liberati

To secretaries, who constituted 6 percent of the American work force then, Redactron word processors arrived in an office like a trunk of magic tricks, liberating users from the tyranny of having to retype pages marred by bad keystrokes and the monotony of copying pages for wider distribution. The “tyranny” of retyping pages? But we find their liberation extended further just a few lines below... Modern word processors...killed off the need for most of the old-fashioned secretarial skills Ms. Berezin was trying to enhance. “I’m embarrassed to tell you that I never thought of it — it never entered my mind” that the word processor might endanger women’s jobs, Ms. Berezin said in an interview for this obituary in 2017. Why does an article in the New York Times have to flex and bend to give a liberation angle to a word processor?