I was on the bus, riding home today. I was sitting next to a somewhat old Korean man with a pair of spectacles, reading the newspaper. As we approached a stop, I peered into the book store next to it. Some books were on display, I looked for and found a few I had heard about, a couple I had read. Then, I saw the strangest thing. One book had a black background, a dark theme with a black and white photo of an old white man with a scornful look on his face. I am not familiar with american actors, so of course I didn't know who it was. Now what really completed this was the title. When I read it, I thought: "Jesus, could I find anything more misogynistic? Are there women who work in this bookstore who looked at that and said to their boss "Yeah, let's put that on display."? Has the whole world gone mad? Have we no decency?" I had just seen
The Da Vinci Code the day before so I was still in a feminist-aware type of mood. Unfortunately, what I accidently said aloud didn't exactly sound as intelligent, feminist-aware as I hoped it could. "Good God, is that book titled
"Cunt"??"
The Korean fellow leaned forward and followed my finger. After a second he leaned back and looked at me like I was an idiot.
"
Clint." A second passed, I had a blank face.
"You know, Clint Eastwood, the actor?"
"Ooooohhhh. Sorry, I'm not familiar." He nodded.
"Where did you get those spectacles?"
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