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Grandma, what a big and
fickle metaphor you can be! For children, the name translates as "the
magnificent one with presents in her suitcase who thinks I’m a genius if I put
my shoes on the right feet, and who stuffs me with cookies the moment my
parents’ backs are turned."
In news reports, to call a woman
"grandmotherly" is shorthand for "kindly, frail, harmless, keeper of the family
antimacassars, and operationally past tense."
For
anthropologists and ethnographers of yore, grandmothers were crones, an
impediment to "real" research. The renowned ethnographer Charles William Merton
Hart, who in the 1920’s studied the Tiwi hunter-gatherers of Australia,
described the elder females there as "a terrible nuisance" and "physically quite
revolting" and in whose company he was distressed to find himself on occasion,
yet whose activities did not merit recording or analyzing with anything like the
attention he
A. It makes people think of kindness, frailty, old fashion, etc.
B. The word has different associations for different people.
C. The word brings a sense of security to children.
D. The word means an impediment to real research.