Kia ora e Harold!

I agree wholeheartedly with your stance. The age of 'the subject' is fast disappearing, and thank goodness! Society has lived through the fundamental, the tribal, the national and is now venturing on the I-don't-know-what-al. But one thing is for sure, discrimination is not cutting the mustard - on any front. And why stop at racism?

In answer to Koreen's point, I'd say that there's nothing wrong with interpreting a sonnet. There's nothing wrong with questioning the source of a news story either. The postmodern renaissance individual is just as likely to be able to do both and needs to be able to do both. If 'we' foster critical analysis there would be no discrimination.

I took my 15 year old to see A Midsummer Night's Dream at the weekend. That's right. By William S. She stood in the foyer during the interval, texting her pals. When we were belled back in she was quick to take her seat. She was rapt with the whole performance and raved about it all the way home! This was no postmodern claptrap. We ended up reading the script from The Complete Works Of, so close was the play to the book.

Catchya later