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JESSICA LYNCH As she will tell you herself, the tale that she mowed down the enemy while under fire and was taken prisoner only after being shot and stabbed was just a myth. The truth: her convoy was attacked; her legs were broken; and she was dramatically rescued days later. Lynch was no war hero, but she inspires by giving credit to others--to her rescuers and to Private First Class Lori Ann Piestewa, Lynch's best friend, who died that...
...proper theories, they’re sexist fantasies. Many Harvard women are enjoying sex--and pursuing it. What’s more, sexual assault isn’t about “free samples” or women’s morality. It’s about the myth of gentlemanly ethics, and the idea that sex is an act done to a woman, as opposed to something that women can participate in equally with men. At a time when Harvard is just beginning to realize how appallingly common sexual assault is, the Professor is fretting about women?...
...those with an extreme fondness for the poet, there is even a Yeats camp, a two week-long summer institution formally titled The W.B. Yeats International Summer School, in order to hear the world’s most trusted and respected scholars lecture on the man and the myth that is W.B. Yeats himself...
There is much in Angela C. Makabali’s Dec. 4 Op-ed piece (“The Model What?”) with which I find myself in agreement. The model minority myth does have as one of its effects the marginalization of sub-populations within “Asian America” that do not share a similar characterization. The bulk of “American history” teaching does omit mention of the contributions of many Americans and the (often negative) experiences of others...
...interpretation of McCarthy’s take on this myth might be reading too much into it, but I figure that if this piece is ever anthologized as one of McCarthy’s “flawed, but promising” early works, some graduate student will come up with an equally overblown explanation—so I might as well make the first attempt...