Hello🌻sunflower🌻sandwich? Maybe I will reread Rebecca West's "Sunflower."

"'The newspaper…comforts the afflicted and afflicts the comfortable,' Finley Peter Dunne, a Chicago humorist, wrote in 1902."

~ Valerie Schultz

"Dear Catholic Boomers..."

https://www.americamagazine.org/politics-society/2024/12/19/catholics-voted-trump-afflict-comfortable-249473

In West’s gendered politics, Essington embodies a sort of doomed and sterile “male reason,” while “stupid” Sunflower offers an alternative “way of looking at the world” through intuition and emotions (183). As an inarticulate, working-class woman in a marginalized profession, Sunflower’s greater wisdom is an affront to the dominant discourses and social hierarchies of her contemporary world. West insists on the “rightness” of Sunflower’s perspective in many incidents and especially in a courtroom scene where a contextual, compassionate judgment—that contrasts with a literal, narrow, legal interpretation–achieves justice.

"The rot began before the war": Rebecca West’s Sunflower

https://bloomsburyliterarystudiesblog.com/2018/12/the-rot-began-before-the-war-rebecca-wests-sunflower-and-the-failure-of-british-liberalism.html

"Let's call it what it really is, argues author, founder, and activist Reshma Saujani: another misogynistic scheme."

"How Can You Overcome Impostor Syndrome? You Don't"

https://www.glamour.com/story/impostor-syndrome-isnt-a-syndrome-its-a-scheme