This guy has been teaching at "The New School for Social Research" (its real name) at 12th St and Sixth Avenue in Manhattan for heaven knows how long, and he thinks he knows anything about outhouses?
As a good old Georgia girl with personal experience digging outhouse vaults as well as using them, I can tell Mr. Effete Manhattanite Blonsky that every outhouse I've ever been in has a good strong spring on the door. It keeps the critters out and the smell in. And it goes "SLAM!"
He's just looking for an opportunity to bad-mouth a Christian guy from flyover country and curry favor with his putative masters the MooseLimbs.
Not anymore. I believe they upgraded to "New School University" some years back...if I'm not mistaken.
But it's the other quote from Blonsky that disturbs me:
Blonsky opined that when it comes to artistic criticism, it is a mistake to give much weight at all to the artist's stated intention.
All that matters, he said, is the way people interpret it. Therefore, even if Hart intended no offense, the offense is there.
"Heads I win, tails you lose." Or worse: "You will offend me, no matter what you do. You offend me by your very existence."
How do you fight that?