"Then, as though a light bulb had clicked on in her brain, she continued: 'Look at feminism. It started as a fringe movement. Now it's mainstream, left and right.'"

— Seward Darby


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Date
September 2017
Metaphor
"Then, as though a light bulb had clicked on in her brain, she continued: 'Look at feminism. It started as a fringe movement. Now it's mainstream, left and right.'"
Metaphor in Context
Lokteff, though, is sanguine. "Ten years from now, a lot of these alt-right concepts are going to be very mainstream in white people's minds," she told me. Then, as though a light bulb had clicked on in her brain, she continued: "Look at feminism. It started as a fringe movement. Now it's mainstream, left and right." (p. 33)
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Reading
Citation
Seward Darby, "The Rise of the Valkyries," Harper's (September 2017). <Link to harpers.org>
Date of Entry
08/25/2017

The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.