Closets and Wardrobes

sistermagpie sistermagpie at earthlink.net
Tue Apr 29 00:55:37 UTC 2008


 Carol again:
> 
> Thanks, Ali. The writer is American and her characters are in their
> early twenties, so I expect that she's about the same age. I wonder,
> though, how somewhat older readers would respond to it. (It's a
> romance novel, which might, theoretically, be read by women in their
> thirties. I doubt that many men would read it just because of the
> genre, even though one of the narrators is male.
> 
> Still, I'd like to have a few more reactions.

Magpie:
Oh, sorry. I must have thought you were translating or something, which 
is why I said "just call it an undershirt."

But wife-beater is pretty much what I've gotten used to by now. If it's 
unfamiliar it's going to be offensive but I consider it pretty standard 
now.

-m





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