Comments on: Here’s your weekly Brzezinski post http://www.ephblog.com/2009/11/23/preemptive-brzezinski-post/ All Things Eph Fri, 12 Mar 2010 07:17:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: kthomas http://www.ephblog.com/2009/11/23/preemptive-brzezinski-post/#comment-78539 kthomas Sat, 19 Dec 2009 07:00:16 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=25188#comment-78539 English uses "a public forum," doesn't it? What's the function of that? English uses “a public forum,” doesn’t it? What’s the function of that?

]]> By: kthomas http://www.ephblog.com/2009/11/23/preemptive-brzezinski-post/#comment-78538 kthomas Sat, 19 Dec 2009 06:59:12 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=25188#comment-78538 Kirsten, This post has been in my mind for quite a while-- partially because I read an earlier MB-related post while looking over a longer article on female identity in Warschau by a (female) artist in the Sunday magazine of Suddeutscher Zeitung, partially because of what it says (unsaid) about female aspirations in the US, partially-- Well, many reasons. I've been trying to think of a way to express my reactions to your comment, without psychologizing Mika, in public forum (much less on ephBlog). I've yet to find a way, a phrasing, to say what I wish, without potentially seeming to say something negative about Mika. She does seem to be globalizing, generalizing, projecting her experience-- and I hope we might all be sympathetic, empathetic, (the word here, in English, doesn't matter much to me) to the why of that, to the circumstances. I have a sort of flippant suggestion as well-- the thought has occurred to me, that Mika certainly has the resources, and the werewithal, to move her family to a flat in Warschau, and to rediscover the legacy of the Polish language and culture-- and-- I hardly know if she would be sympathetic to such a suggestion-- well-- Kirsten,

This post has been in my mind for quite a while– partially because I read an earlier MB-related post while looking over a longer article on female identity in Warschau by a (female) artist in the Sunday magazine of Suddeutscher Zeitung, partially because of what it says (unsaid) about female aspirations in the US, partially–

Well, many reasons. I’ve been trying to think of a way to express my reactions to your comment, without psychologizing Mika, in public forum (much less on ephBlog). I’ve yet to find a way, a phrasing, to say what I wish, without potentially seeming to say something negative about Mika.

She does seem to be globalizing, generalizing, projecting her experience– and I hope we might all be sympathetic, empathetic, (the word here, in English, doesn’t matter much to me) to the why of that, to the circumstances.

I have a sort of flippant suggestion as well– the thought has occurred to me, that Mika certainly has the resources, and the werewithal, to move her family to a flat in Warschau, and to rediscover the legacy of the Polish language and culture– and– I hardly know if she would be sympathetic to such a suggestion–

well–

]]> By: Kirsten http://www.ephblog.com/2009/11/23/preemptive-brzezinski-post/#comment-76321 Kirsten Mon, 23 Nov 2009 18:22:48 +0000 http://www.ephblog.com/?p=25188#comment-76321 Well, at least she's getting attention.... Seriously, she needs to stop generalizing. Well, at least she’s getting attention…. Seriously, she needs to stop generalizing.

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