[PEN-L:3734] Re: Re: Don't just offer facts

[Brad De Long <delong@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Friends,
>
>The Deidre McCloskey referred to used to be Donald McCloskey.  She had a
>sex-change operation I believe so that her physical appearance would be
>attuned to the fact that she thought of herself as a woman.  As Donald,
>she was well-known for her work in the rhetoric of economics.  I have
>heard that she has had difficulty professionally since becoming Deidre,
>though at lest she is a professor still with tenure.

Well, we elected her president of the Economic History Association. (But if
I recall correctly, the annual meeting at which she gave her presidential
address was shifted from somewhere in the south to New Brunswick, NJ, for
reasons that were never explained to me.)

I'm not sure what "difficulty professionally" means in this context...


Brad DeLong