Peeking into the rock

Two of the annoying things that keep popping up about writing are (1) an irrational hatred of the passive vocie coupled with a complete ignorance as to what the passive voice actually is: and (2) blather about gender and writing style.  They've come together in a recent<a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/06/29/AR2010062903997_pf.html"> idiotic essay by Kathleen Parker</a> about President Obama, and you can read the takedown <a href="http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2427">here</a> at Language Log as usual.

You are all reading Language Log, right?

You better be!