When Shiva writes that "Golden Rice will make the malnutrition crisis worse" and that it will kill people, she reinforces the worst fears of her largely Western audience.
These are the rules by which she has agreed to play, and which she reinforces with every daft utterance and anti-women policy.
Was she reinforcing a Carol Gilligan-like view of women's speaking in a "different voice" — a voice, in this case, that spoke the language of home comforts?
She reinforces what many others have said: that Garland had an overflowing sense of humor and mischief and backs it up with a story too juicy to give away here of Garland's diabolically witty payback to a boyfriend who had stolen some jewelry.
Palin, who studied journalism in college and worked for a time as a sportscaster, has an informal manner of speech, simultaneously chatty and urgent, and she reinforces her words with winks and nods and wrinklings of her nose that seem meant to telegraph intimacy and ease.
