In
today's Chronicle Real Estate section, there's a
story titled,
"Separate, yet equal / 3 architects, 3 houses, same
size, but
designed for different buyers"
OK. Call me oversensitive, call me politically correct (I am from Berkeley, after all) but... doesn't that sound slightly, well, wrong? "Separate but equal" was the term used to refer to racial segregation in the bad old days in America, after all.
I was imagining other possibilities, though. Take a story about someone who keeps remodeling his or her house, and finally comes up with a design they like. "The Final Solution"! Or how people from different cultural backgrounds handle day-to-day tidying chores. "Ethnic Cleansing!"
Maybe I'm making too much of this. After all, I am the one who once suggested the headingline "ISH Happens" for a story about an international solar home show.
OK. Call me oversensitive, call me politically correct (I am from Berkeley, after all) but... doesn't that sound slightly, well, wrong? "Separate but equal" was the term used to refer to racial segregation in the bad old days in America, after all.
I was imagining other possibilities, though. Take a story about someone who keeps remodeling his or her house, and finally comes up with a design they like. "The Final Solution"! Or how people from different cultural backgrounds handle day-to-day tidying chores. "Ethnic Cleansing!"
Maybe I'm making too much of this. After all, I am the one who once suggested the headingline "ISH Happens" for a story about an international solar home show.
