Norma Rae Quotes

Sally has spent most of her professional life working for respect. She started in television, first as Gidget (1965–66) and then as The Flying Nun (1967–70), and spent the next ten years trying to live those roles down. That explains why, when she won her second Oscar, for Places in the Heart (1984), she said, “I haven’t had an orthodox career, and I’ve wanted more than anything to have your respect. The first time I didn’t feel it, but this time I feel it—and I can’t deny the fact that you like me, right now, you like me!” She was making a reference to a line in Norma Rae, but nobody got the joke, and Sally got slammed for it. To make it worse, people misquoted her as saying, “You like me, you really like me!” That line has been dogging her ever since.

Trump doesn’t happen in a country where things are going well. People give in to their baser instincts when they lose faith in the future. The pessimism and anger necessary for this situation has been building for a generation, and not all on one side. A significant number of Trump voters voted for Obama eight years ago. A lot of those were in rust-belt states that proved critical to his election. What happened there? Trump also polled 2–1 among veterans, despite his own horrific record of deferments and his insulting of every vet from John McCain to Humayun Khan. Was it possible that his rhetoric about ending “our current policy of regime change” resonated with recently returned vets? The data said yes. It may not have been decisive, but it likely was one of many factors. It was also common sense, because this was one of his main themes on the campaign trail—Trump clearly smelled those veteran votes. The Trump phenomenon was also about a political and media taboo: class. When the liberal arts grads who mostly populate the media think about class, we tend to think in terms of the heroic worker, or whatever Marx-inspired cliché they taught us in college. Because of this, most pundits scoff at class, because when they look at Trump crowds, they don’t see Norma Rae or Matewan. Instead, they see Married with Children, a bunch of tacky mall-goers who gobble up crap movies and, incidentally, hate the noble political press. Our take on Trump voters was closer to Orwell than Marx: “In reality very little was known about the proles. It was not necessary to know much.” Beyond the utility that calling everything racism had for both party establishments, it was good for that other sector, the news media.

Canning and Preserving without Sugar, by Norma MacRae

En el caso de Lengua Castellana, se ha de enseñar que el lenguaje no sexista debe utilizarse al margen de las normas lingüísticas, etimológicas y gramaticales. Por ejemplo, en un libro de texto ideológicamente neutro aparece como ejercicio que los alumnos han de señalar la incorrección sexista (sic) en la frase “Las señoras de la limpieza comenzaron su trabajo” (personal de limpieza) y “La jefe de servicio comenzó el trabajo” (la jefa) o “La juez ordenó medidas cautelares” (jueza), al mismo nivel que deben detectar los errores gramaticales u ortográficos. También se exige el uso del antiespañol doblete “ciudadanos y ciudadanas”, en tanto en español existe el plural común y el malsonante “juez-jueza” existiendo el epiceno, palabra de doble uso en ambos sexos, transformación artificial y alingüística que, naturalmente, no se exige si la palabra en cuestión tiene “aspecto femenino” como es el caso de electricista y “electricisto”, pediatra y “pediatro”. Los dislates de algunas políticas feministas a las que hemos oído decir “miembras”, “jóvenas” o “quijotas caballeras andantas” son parte de esta demencial estrategia de amoldar el idioma a la ideología y no obedecía a ninguna casualidad, sino a un plan establecido que también incluye la desaparición de términos y la aceptación, o no, de otros en función de los intereses de la agenda del género forzando a la RAE y dictando los manuales de estilo de los medios informativos afines. Ningún profesor culto y no ideologizado puede enseñar este tipo de cosas sin sonrojo. De hecho, el miembro de la RAE D. Ignacio Bosque hizo público un estudio ratificado por toda la Academia sobre estos asuntos criticando el uso ideológico del lenguaje al margen de su etimología y sus normas. Sin embargo, los seguidores de la ideología de género son acientíficos hasta en la lingüística y han hecho oídos sordos pese a que una de las firmantes, Margarita Casas, es una reconocida feminista.