Why Oh Why Can't We Have a Better Press Corps?
In my email inbox this morning, apropos of the New Yorker:
All the little details are off. Cloudberry gelato isn't a thing. (Cloudberry sorbet maybe). The stuff about yuppie women doing workouts that emphasize the upper body... surely he could have read the wikipedia entries for pilates or spinning. Sometimes I wonder if [David Brooks] knows any actual people, or just bases his writing on cliches he picks up on the internet...
So I went and checked:
David Brooks: What the science of human nature can teach us: High-status women, on the other hand, pay ferocious attention to their torsos, biceps, and forearms so they can wear sleeveless dresses all summer and crush rocks with their bare hands.... Occasionally, you meet a young, rising member of this class at the gelato store, as he hovers indecisively over the cloudberry and ginger-pomegranate selections, and you notice that his superhuman equilibrium is marred by an anxiety...
Indeed yes: "cloudberry gelato" produces only six hits on google. "cloudberry sorbet" produces about "about 1,000".
