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...first female Harvard androgyne to be mistakenly called “sir,” nor will I be the last. Iris Z. Ahronowitz ’03-’04 recalls a Chem 10 lecture two years ago, when Professor Dudley Herschbach pointed her out and said, “What’s the answer to this question, young...
...resident from Swarthmore, Pa., who wears her strawberry blond hair in a short pixie bob. Like Ray, McCarthy struggles to find an appropriate reaction for situations of mistaken gender identity. “I was crossing the street once and a cop kept shouting, ‘Sir, stop!’” she says. “Finally, I turned around and said, ‘You can call me ma?...
...only wish I could be so conciliatory about my mistaken identity. My first instinct, when someone calls me “sir,” is to snarl back gendered epithets and, to put it lightly, to fuck with people. Once, I got in a 20 minute-long shouting match with a wall-eyed young man on a Manhattan subway who told me not to hold hands with my girlfriend in public, a fight that silenced the train and ended with me shouting, “Suck my dick, bitch,” as the homophobe retreated...
...POSTAL SERVICE, CEX AND CERTAINLY SIR. Featuring Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service plays their unique fusion of electronica and rock downstairs at the Middle East on Sunday. Also performing are acclaimed experimental electronic artist and rapper Cex, as well as Boston’s own Certainly Sir. Sunday, April 20 at 8 p.m. Advance tickets $9 available at the Middle East Box Office or from Ticketmaster, (617) 931-2000. $10 at the door, 18+. Middle East Club (downstairs), 472 Mass...
...comic subtext revolves around the servants in Olivia’s household. The lanky England plays Aguecheek, a bumbling knight who hopes to marry Olivia, with the perfect amount of goofiness and obliviousness. He’s complimented well by Sweeney as the libidinous Sir Toby who is constantly in trouble—yet always lovable—for his drunken ways...