Having just read the (for the most part) well-written
article by Matt Jenkins on Navajo water rights, I just couldn’t get
one phrase from the opening paragraphs out of my head (HCN,
3/17/08). He describes tribal water rights commissioner
Lena Fowler as possessing a “… cool intensity and a vaguely sexy
set of crow’s feet at the corners of her eyes.” I was wondering,
how would he describe her legs? And those other guys – that Jewish
Pollack the lawyer guy and the activist fellow Ron Milford – are
they sexy, too? In a rugged, Western sort of way I mean. You know,
jutting jaws and craggy brows furrowed from long years of squinting
into the sky, skin tanned a vaguely sexy bronze? And what in the
world would any of those things have to do with an otherwise
interesting and (seemingly) well researched article into the
looming problems of an even-more-than-usual water-starved West?
Just wondering.
Bruce Pack
Gold Canyon,
Arizona
This article appeared in the print edition of the magazine with the headline Vaguely sexist?.
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