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If Rosenbaum wants to be an objective observer, fine, but he enters with too many preconceptions.
Stalin's face juxtaposed with Lenin's bier in a 1939 photomontage can be imagined as mourning only by an effort of will; he is sidelit, vampiric, sinister--but then Stalin rarely fails to look sinister in photographs, and this is not merely a matter of the viewer's preconceptions.
"I didn't," she tells the paper, "want anybody to have any preconceptions about who I am."
It's an interesting assertion, but one that should be supported by more than the reader's own sexist preconceptions.
What I hope people will do is what we're doing here--airing issues, exploring them critically, interrogating our own preconceptions about language, broadening our understanding about how we use language and how we'd like it to be used.