RIP Susie S.
In today's Globe and Mail, columnist Heather Mallick goes on an entertaining rant about the obituaries for Big Thinker (TM) Susan Sontag. The Associated Press originally sent out a quickie that attacked Sontag for being a mouthy broad, dintcha know. Thank goodness for Mallick's take -- I was tired of reading the queer media whining. To whit: Sontag was portrayed as hetero by a bigoted mainstream media, when in fact she was a lesbian; no, she was bisexual, you pig; no, she was closeted and outed by the holier-than-thou homos. The he said, she said is so confusing I don't know what to think, and her ladyship's intellectual legacy is falling by the wayside. As such, I promise to read both On Photography and Illness As Metaphor. And as I gaze at a recent portrait of Sontag's, I realize that I will soon have her jowls.
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