You may have noticed that I have not been monitoring the news closely for the past few weeks. For the most part, it has led to a lot more calmness in my life.
But it also means there's a lot less to talk about, usually. Right now I am just barely letting the motorcycle-gang shooting in Texas get through to my consciousness.
With that as context, I just saw this beautiful bit of juxtaposition:
(From the Twitter account @randompattern.)
Isn't it interesting that I wrote "motorcycle gang" above, instead of just "gang"? That extra word helps the reader know the shooting involved a bunch of white guys instead a bunch of black guys.
Which reminds me of this:
Clearly, the copy editor thinks everyone assumes prostitutes are female unless noted otherwise.
And gang members have brown skin unless they have a roaring engine between their legs.
Sunday, May 17, 2015
Gang; Prostitute; What Image Came to Mind?
Posted at 8:38 PM
Categories: Joy of Juxtaposition
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