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6. I have observed, over the years, that our name is almost never used...
Tue Nov 17, 2020, 10:29 PM
Nov 2020

...in any sort of flattering context. In books, plays, movies, if a sour, cranky female character is needed, she is often named Martha.

One of the worst examples I ever saw of this was an ad on the back page of a medical journal. I was in nursing school at the time - 1973. The ad featured a very wizened, sour-faced little old lady, scowling ferociously, and sitting on a high 4-legged wooden stool. The ad was for a stool softener, and said, "Give Aunt Martha Colace in the AM for a BM in the PM"

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