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Originally posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No one has even bothered to explain to me what Blanco failed to do that she could have done, except that nonono thinks she should have had a more masculine, steely determination on TV, which is entirely possible, but to me misses the point that in the first days after the city was flooded, what was really needed was water and helicopters and trucks and helicopters and food and helicopters and ice, and that the marooned residents of New Orleans probably weren't as interested in masculine, steely determination as nonono is on the grounds that they didn't have any electricity to power up their televisions, which were submerged anyhow, and therefore would have missed the tough words and big talk. I hope all y'all enjoyed that sentence as much as I did.
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I enjoyed that sentence quite a bit. I was trying to edit the quote from you just to what I wanted to respond to, but it went on forever! Very enjoyable.
Anyway, I knew that you were getting at he "masculine" thing when I talked about her crying. I didn't want her to be masculine; I wanted her to be a leader and to pull herself together and get some thing rolling, not cry about what she doesn't have, and who isn't helping, etc. Just as I don't believe in crying at work, I don't believe in leaders crying when they're the go-to person in a major crisis.
