An Unkindness of Ravens
“Smith’s Classical Dictionary.’ The girl called Nicky laughed. ‘But I don’t know what the letters stand for,’ he said.‘Action for the Radical Reform of Intersexual Attitudes.’‘A case of making the nym fit the acronym? Or is it a deliberate obscuration?’‘Perhaps it is.’‘How many schools are involved?’It was Eve who answered him. ‘Kingsmarkham High, Haldon Finch, St Catherine’s .. . ‘ but Caroline Peters interrupted her.‘I teach at Haldon Finch. ARRIA had its inception just over a year ago at St C...atherine’s. We admitted as members only those women over sixteen, those in fact in the sixth and seventh years. I’m glad to say it had an immediate appeal—how could an organization designed expressly for women, designed to give men no quarter—be otherwise?’ She turned on him a glacial look of distaste and it gave him a most unpleasant feeling. He didn’t belong to a minority, there was no way he could be categorized into a minority, yet the sensation she gave him was of doing so and of an oppressed one at that.MoreLess
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