I have no idea if she is a cop-out. Notice that you’re putting my words into absolute terms, which of course, I would be wrong to hold, and don’t hold. I have no idea whether or not this person is determined and driven in life.
You read that link and your take-away was that the girl was a cop-out who succumbed to self-pity?
First part of your characterization of my opinion: I have no idea if she is a cop-out, of course. If I presume to guess, I’d say that she sounds like a spirited and intelligent person, and may be achieving her goals despite the climate of “the oppressed” around her. Second part — whether she succumbed to self-pity: why rephrase what I’m saying? You can re-read what I think is driving her sentiments as expressed in her open letter.
Sure it does.
But very often, Americans just say “The Boy Scouts” and mean “The BSA”. That’s what I meant by “leaving out the ‘of America’”. You see it happening all over the Internet. There are plenty of pages where people say that “The Boy Scouts” are an evil ultra-conservative Mormon puppet organisation, and plenty of others who applaud that “The Boy Scouts” proudly defend “American Values”. I want the “of America” mentioned every time, except when you are really making general statements about scouts worldwide.
