Clichés: Here's a fresh example
In an otherwise fine article about the nature of genius, Wired writer Daniel Pink tosses in this:
Galenson maintains that this duality – conceptualists are from Mars, experimentalists are from Venus – is the core of the creative process.
Not only is the “[A] are from Mars, [B] are from Venus” trope a cliché, it doesn’t really work here. Why associate conceptualists with Mars and experimentalists with Venus? What’s the connection? None that I can see.
What do you think? Am I making too much of it? Does this image help or hinder Pink’s article?
For more on clichés, see my previous entry here.
Posted on Thursday, September 28, 2006 at 04:18PM
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Roy Jacobsen
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