(Originally published February 8, 2007)
Black woman, late 20s, with long dark hair, wearing a brown jacket, brown knitted cap, blue jeans and large black sunglasses. She carries an old leather book bag, something that looks like it once belonged to, and maybe still does, a grad student.
Bitchfest: Ten Years of Cultural Criticism from the Pages of Bitch Magazine, Lisa Jervis & Andi Zeisler (Ed.) (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)
Page 41:
What would-be grammar police don’t acknowledge is that hedges say less about an individual woman’s lack of confidence than they do about society’s expectation that a woman not be assertive.
"To the graduating class of 1982, teachers, parents, President Henner, I say, Welcome!"
*New card*
"I am proud to stand here as your valedictorian. This has been an especially accomplished year for me. I represented our school at the Ontario Science Fair; I played Mrs. Sowerberry in this year’s theatrical production of Oliver!…"
*New card*
"…I am your free throw champion two years running; and my first poem was published in the local newspaper."
*New card*
"But, first and foremost, I am your classmate."
*New card*
"As we leave these halls, some of us will take a short journey down the street to the vocational high school, others across town to specialized programs in the arts. But we will always be…"
*New card*
"TOGETHER IN OUR HEARTS!!!"
(Wait for applause)
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