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Reader Feedback on "Yesterday's Paper"
"Anything" Mikita Brottman writes is "suspect", the very moment she's identified as the author!! In its' accuracy and substance. Usually her written work has as much truth as an AIG Bank Spokesman's press release!!! The second her name comes up, I start vigorously tapping "ice berg ahead" on the telegraphy key, hoping the majority of sensible and logical people will listen to my warning.............No matter how harshly I speak of this poor ignorant creature, it still doesn't do her true justice!! I suppose I should feel more sorrow than anything else for such a pitiful excuse for a person. Who sadly thinks of themselves as an upstanding intellectual, author, and College Professor. But, in truth is nothing more than a Pseudo-Intellectual Hate Monger!!! Yes, you heard me right I called her a hate monger. Which until she issues a true heart felt apology to all of us in the "Aspie Community", she will continue to be!..........I'll get straight to the point. How she refers to all of us who happen to have "Asperger's Syndrome" in her widely read newspaper article "Nutty Professors" is the same as Hitler's reference to the Jews in "Mein Kampff"!! This is not an exaggeration in comparisons! She truly hates or at least has severe contempt for any and all who have Asperger's, just because she associates "us" with a couple of people she doesn't like.......Please do a search for her name and the a fore mentioned article ; "Nutty Professor's" and decide for yourself. Everything she claims about us is indeed hateful, untrue, bigoted, and generally ignorant!!.. All of her work, regardless of subject matter usually depends on personal speculation, being stated as if it's without question a concluded fact. She regularly inflates matters and outright lies if it suits her opinion....Bill O'Reily, Rush Limbaugh, and Newt Gingrich could learn something from her on how to tell a lie like it's the truth and make the masses believe it to be true!!....Whatever the case please read "Nutty Professor's" by "Mikita Brottman" and decide for yourself and please pass the word onto others to do the same. If anybody is as angry as I am about her. Then write an angry letter to her place of employment. Which I think is some college I've never heard of before in Santa Barbera, called "Pacifica" and demand she write a retraction or risk being proved publicly a prejudiced hate mongor, who has no right to be a professor at "any" learning institution!!
--NRB
04/06 |
I hope Mikita Brottman had a better copy editor than was evidenced in the excerpt in The Week magazine ... wherein she states that Catherine mourned Heathcliff's death in Wuthering Heights. In fact, it was the other way around. Catherine died, leaving Heathcliff to mourn.
--ts
05/11 |
Boo hoo hoo, books ruined my life. If Brottman didn't have books to blame for her life, she'd be blaming her parents. For heavens sake don't let her turn on the TV or she may jump out the window thinking she's "Spider Chick" Get a clue Brottman you read fiction. It's now real! I can't believe she actually teaches. Read some non-fiction and grow-up.
--BK
05/10 |
I find this interview and the content of "A Solitary Vice" highly disturbing. Her ideas aren't revolutionary but rather help to rationalize the distinctly American phenomenon of anti-intellectualism. It is no coincidence that poorly substantiated books like this are being published and actually taken somewhat seriously, in a time in which some public school systems are beginning to teach creationism, etc. go ahead and make yourself feel better for "reading" txt messages and blogs rather than literature with the authors ridiculous claims. what evidence is there that those who read are less able to communicate clearly with their peers?
--LC
04/09 |
I agreed with the broad thesis of this author but this set of statements struck as ill thought out and probably just play wrong. She should run them by a linguist.
"In my experience, and in the experience of many of my students, if you're from a family that doesn't read a lot, you can develop a very complex and textured inner language. Your spoken language is more simple and straightforward. When you read these very complex ideas, you can lose the ability to communicate with people around you."
In my experience, people who read a lot actually are quite a bit better at communicating with other people than those who don't. I'm not sure what she's basing this idea on but in any case, the plural of anecdote is not evidence.
--ASM
04/03 |
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