| Wednesday, August 27, 2003 |
 | It's the form of words that gets you sometimes - odd correspondences that result from different cultural maps.
So, for example, the description of theoretical biologist Joan Roughgarden as "once a man". This is a perfectly good, albeit somewhat portentous, phrase (although, you know, does Roughgarden feel that the fact that she was born male deserves to be whacked above everything else she has to say in 30-point type?).
However.
However, "once a man" is a phrase sadly associated forever in my mind with the cries of Cobra Commander, turned into a snake in a harsh but not entirely unjustifiable response to being in essence a shit terrorist leader. This is not a reaction Laura Spinney could reasonably have anticipated.
Well, I did say "sadly"...
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