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Unfulfilled Ask

I cringed when I read the teaser 'Why Women Are So Bad at Writing About Sex' on the cover. The line implies that this article will finally explain the answer to this consistent and pervasive mystery. The judgement is as sweeping and compartmentalising as it is untrue, and it smacks of the very oversimplification the article so precisely works against. Claire Dederer's engagement with the complex­ity of writing about desire deserves a better teaser, and your readers deserve a better assessment of their willingness to open a magazine that publishes, rather than hides, such complexity.

Shari Goldberg, Dallas, in The Atlantic

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Existential Crisis

You report that a person’s approach to toast reveals his or her personality. I eat no toast and therefore, apparently, I have no personality. I am the invisible man consuming bacon, eggs, mushrooms, sausages, black pudding and baked beans.

Chris Watson, Malaysia, in The Daily Telegraph

Say That Again?

Anybody who insists on calling this year twenty-fifteen will leave many of us—especially members of the armed forces—confused. To us, twenty-fifteen is a quarter past eight in the evening.

Richard J.C. English, in The Daily Telegraph

Good question

A man walks into a bar with a gift-wrapped fossil. The bar­man says: 'Why the historic present?'

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Alasdair McKee, Lancaster, in The Guardian

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