stroganoffed

[Ben Zimmer]

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http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/04/whats-an-obituary-for/274531/
Last week, Yvonne Brill -- a pioneering rocket scientist best known
for her work developing the technologies that help keep our satellites
in orbit -- passed away. And she was, unsurprisingly, given an
obituary inThe New York Times. The first line of that obituary,
though, was a little less unsurprising. Because it originally read
like this: "She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from
job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children.
'The world's best mom,' her son Matthew said."
Oof -- the husband-follower and kid-haver and meat-cooker, who was
also a rocket scientist! This was bad for several reasons, which was
why the Times has since updated its wording. There's the gender issue,
first of all: the fact that it's nearly impossible to imagine a male
scientist of Brill's standing getting stroganoffed in this way.
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The article links to a tweet from Ruth Franklin:

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http://twitter.com/ruth_franklin/status/318209044907192320
well, at least we got a new buzzword out of this: to be "stroganoffed."
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--bgz

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Ben Zimmer
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