![]() (If it had been an upper-middle-class white woman screaming "motherfucker" at a phat-pantsed white preppie, communicative cooperativeness would have obliged Parker to mention that fact lest the reader draw the wrong conclusions.) The race and class of the woman and her companion weren't specified, but readers might have been able to divine those attributes from the particular word Parker chose to report (or was that the only vulgarity the woman used?), helped along by the setting at Broadway and 168th Street and the mentions of the separated father and in particular of the young man's "baggy drawers," which presumably were intended to convey some relevant information. ![]() Finally, she shared with us bystanders her belief that said mother- would not be welcome in her house (Hark! Good news at last!) and that he could very well seek shelter at his mother-ing father’s house. ![]() It wasn’t possible to discern whether he was her mate or her son, but his attire (baggy drawers) and insolent disposition seemed to suggest the latter.Įvery other word out of the woman’s mouth was mother-, presumably a coincidental reference to any familial relationship. Scene: An elevator in New York Presbyterian Hospital where several others and I were temporary hostages of a filthy-mouthed woman who was profanely berating her male companion. From Kathleen Parker in today's Washington Post: ![]()
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