Fwd: stroganoffed

[Sarah]

Apparently, he did. Somewhat.

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> From: Ben Lillie <lillie.ben at gmail.com>
> Date: April 2, 2013 5:18:57 AM MDT
> To: Sarah <puellaest at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: stroganoffed
> 
> Yeah, he doesn't get it: http://publiceditor.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/01/gender-questions-arise-in-obituary-of-rocket-scientist-and-her-beef-stroganoff/
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> 
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 6:36 AM, Sarah <puellaest at gmail.com> wrote:
> As there is no need to say what has been said many timed over regarding that obit, I just have one question: has Doug Martin made any type of statement?
> 
> (And yes, stroganoffed is about the best thing that could come of that.)
> 
> Sarah
> 
> On 2013-04-01, at 2:26 PM, Ben Zimmer wrote:
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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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