Mr. Birdsall:
Come on. If the editors of the Argus need a glass of water to suit their punchline, then by all means, let them take a photo of any stupid glass of water they want. They were seeking a means of illustrating a punch line, and a Google image search for “+glass +water +exactly +1/3 +empty” apparently didn’t turn up any results. Falsified facts, shamslified facts. You clearly care about fighting the gender binary, so why waste time that could have been spent on that issue on figuring out how to word all those fancy-pants sentences about the mathematics of a cup? Save that gas for the flames that matter. If you really do feel strongly about this cup, hit me at mkestigian@wesleyan.edu. If you do, make sure that you include a witty remark about my article “not holding water,” because it really does deserve to be used at least once in this context.
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