Why the name “Mange Merde”, which may be offensive to some – and certainly to those who speak French?
(If you don’t happen to speak French – and, make no mistake, I don’t, but I can swear like a sailor in a few languages that I don’t otherwise speak – you can check out the Google translation of the term “mange merde” here, but be warned: it is very rude. Now, actually I rarely swear, but somehow swearing in a foreign language just doesn’t feel so unladylike.)
Anyways, as to why that’s the name of this site, primarily, it’s an answer to those who didn’t have the faith in a young girl to overcome her circumstances. To those who thought that the context defined the life. To the professor who told me not to get my hopes up when I told him that I was applying to Harvard, Stanford, and Yale law schools.
To those people – in this one corner of my otherwise gentle, professional, and lady-like life – and much like the little plant, poking itself out of and overcoming the mass of snow heaped on top of it (in the picture above) – I say, well.. you know.
(To read the full story, read my “about” page.)
Anne
Stanford Law School class of ’92
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Oops! Please excuse my comment on this piece (“Thank you! Thank you!”).
It was meant for your article about the dashboard padlock in a Subaru—which was a great help to me. I mistakenly dropped it in your Why Mange Merde article after I was intrigued by the title I enjoyed reading that one very much, but it was the Subaru answer that saved me many hours of stress.
Hi Kim! I’m sorry I only just saw this! No worries at all, I’m so glad that the Subaru article was helpful to you!
Thank you! Thank you!