Here's the latest Fb exchange (6:42 PM. 3/2018) on an Facebook-censorship interesting topic, in which my non-verbal/non-testicular ode to Joan of Arc was banned as "spam." [See above; below]
The image banned as "spam" by Fb
[Full disclosure; am -- what can I blame it on -- a francophile; Why? At my earliest age, attended an-outside-of-Paris école maternelle when my dear Father, a USA dip, was posted in France in the early 50's; I spoke French (no English, thanks to my French nanny) until the 4th grade, when my dad (he never felt "guilty" about his kids being brought up non-"American," doubtless because he felt it was the best way to be a "true American") sent me and my brother to an English-speaking "international school' in Brussels.]
For my sins (not necessarily "male}" I continue -- very, very slowly -- to read Madame Bovary in the original.image from (not from article) froE
Elaine Sciolino, New York Times
13 hrs
SEXISM LIVES IN FRANCE. This really happened. I was at a luncheon in Nanterre honoring Catherine Pegard, the head of Versailles. on International Women's Day yesterday. I was chatting with the male "President" of the Yvelines Department, one of the hosts, and one of the press officers, a young woman. I told the "President" how smart, efficient, and patient his press officer was. He put his arm around her shoulder, pulled her close, and said, "What counts is how beautiful she is." I told him he was out of line, and he said, "Ah, you Americans just don't understand us French."
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