On tender hooks. (trends in the development of politically correct conditions that require people to be inordinately sensitive to each other's feelings) (Column)

National Review | June 21, 1993| | Copyright

IF LOVE means never having to say you're sorry, America is on tender hooks. Somebody is always apologizing.

Country-club memberships, baseball "necessities," Confederate flags, water buffalo, Madame Butterfly, boathouses in Kansas (isn't that like "Swiss navy"?), speaking English, being male, roasting people at roasts, belittling the flexed-arm hang, Hiroshima, oil spills, babies without fathers, swimmers without buoyancy, Columbus, You People, Tammy Wynette, and the 1916 song, "Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go with Friday on Saturday Night?"

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