Dustin M. Wax

writer, educator, anthropologist, and freelance thinker

feminism

A Funny Thing Happened...

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A funny thing happened at the Barnes and Noble last week. I had stopped in to browse a little before an afternoon class, and picked up an issue of Writer's Digest. As I checked out, the clerk -- an older woman -- asked if I was a writer.

"Yeah," I responded, "I am."

"What do you write?" she asked.

"Well, I'm a professor at the University, so a lot of my writing is academic stuff, but I also write quite a bit online, mostly how to-type articles."

At the mention of my teaching, she lit up. "What do you teach?"

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