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Hank Burchard <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 1 Aug 1996 22:35:30 -0400
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On Thu, 1 Aug 1996, Stephen Nowlin wrote (quoting me):

> >     Her thesis is that museums are in trouble because our culture is
> >misogynist and the public is stupid. Well, the public is not so stupid
> >that it can't tell when it's being dissed.
>
> >>    Also, it would be pleasant if some of these putative professionals
> >would clean up their grammer, sintax and speling before posting their
> >animadversions on their absent audiences.
>
> Um, Hank,  I think it should be "...our culture is misogynic" or
> misogynistic, but I don't think a culture can be a mysogynist.
>
> - that little ol' putative professional from Pasadena,
>
> Stephen Nowlin

     Uh, Steve, I'm spitting hares, not splitting hairs.

     Hank Burchard * <[log in to unmask]> * Washington DC | USA

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