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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.
It's an interesting assertion, but one that should be supported by more than the reader's own sexist preconceptions.
If Rosenbaum wants to be an objective observer, fine, but he enters with too many preconceptions.
Most notable is the revelation that a financial scandal involving close family friends forced Matisse to quit the experimental phase he was starting and focus on more salable works: "Spurling brushes aside all our preconceptions about the painter to reveal a personality--and a personal history--none of us had guessed at" (Richard Dorment, the New York Review of Books ). Also praised is the insight into the role Matisse's wife, Amélie, played in fostering his talents.
"I didn't," she tells the paper, "want anybody to have any preconceptions about who I am."