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There are different standards expected of schoolboys compared to respected scientists announcing historic breakthroughs.
by triceratops 2mo ago
There are different standards expected of schoolboys compared to respected scientists announcing historic breakthroughs.
- bigiain 2mo agoWithin her family friendly choice of language, she wasn't shy of making jokes about her own appearance: “I make jokes about it, but it's the truth that I kind of patterned my look after the town tramp. I didn't know what she was, just this woman who was blond and piled her hair up, wore high heels and tight skirts, and, boy, she was the prettiest thing I'd ever seen. Momma used to say, "Aw, she's just trash," and I thought, That's what I want to be when I grow up. Trash.” and: "It costs a lot of money to look this cheap"
- dd8601fn 2mo agoIt was part of her fame, for decades, as she intended. She was not shy or ashamed about it. Nowadays we may be extremely sensitive about that sort of thing (increasingly on behalf of others, unsolicited), but at the time it was not mean spirited or wildly offensive.
- triceratops 2mo ago> at the time it was not mean spirited or wildly offensive. That's what "the past is a foreign country" is meant to communicate.