I feel like doing some memes! Because classes are done (mostly; one more lecture tomorrow that I don't have to pay attention to totally doesn't count), and I don't feel like starting final papers tonight
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Joanne first, kiss laterharmonyangelMay 6 2011, 03:41:03 UTC
1.) Joanne came out to her parents when she was 15. They were liberal, educated people who didn't want to admit how uncomfortable it made them, so they told her with a tone of intellectual distance that they were fine with it as long as she went to Harvard and didn't do crazy, uncouth things like refusing to shave her legs or wear a bra. Joanne fully intended to go to Harvard, but she resented their other demands and defied them as much as a proper diplomat's daughter could. Years later, she'd understand their real fears: they were of a generation where African-Americans, and African-American women in particular, couldn't possibly rise to such dizzying career heights as the judicial bench if they didn't play by the rules of rich, white, heterosexual society. Seeing Joanne defy those very rules made them nervous for her future -- and resentful when she made it work
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