Regarding Duncan's article, there's plenty of work from the last 20 years that can more or less bring me to tears now, only not in the way Duncan means.
I hate to break it to Cosmo, but if he can stomach a hardcore woke person as a significant other, I'm afraid he's fooling himself, and I certainly don't find him especially reliable.
Ewell and comparable examples (of any race) can only be faulted up to a point. If people are not only allowed but, in effect, encouraged to rationalize away or bypass their deficiencies or failures so conveniently and painlessly, it is practically inevitable that many if not most will do so, which is entirely predictable. It's human nature. The real problem is not Ewell, but that which allows and/or encourages such reasoning. There is no point expecting people not to take advantage of what is advantageous.
Regarding Duncan's article, there's plenty of work from the last 20 years that can more or less bring me to tears now, only not in the way Duncan means.
I hate to break it to Cosmo, but if he can stomach a hardcore woke person as a significant other, I'm afraid he's fooling himself, and I certainly don't find him especially reliable.
Ewell and comparable examples (of any race) can only be faulted up to a point. If people are not only allowed but, in effect, encouraged to rationalize away or bypass their deficiencies or failures so conveniently and painlessly, it is practically inevitable that many if not most will do so, which is entirely predictable. It's human nature. The real problem is not Ewell, but that which allows and/or encourages such reasoning. There is no point expecting people not to take advantage of what is advantageous.