Kyle Paxman's Big Day
On Friday, the New York Times ran a piece about a bride-to-be,
Kyle Paxman, who discovered her fiancee was cheating on her. And so Ms. Paxman, 29, canceled the wedding. But so that it wasn't a total loss, both financially and emotionally, Paxman decided to turn the event into a charity benefit for "strong women." According to Paxman, "We needed to turn this into something positive and start the healing process."
(Blogger's pet peeve: The use of the first person plural to suggest collective action when such is not the case. C.f., Joe Lieberman: "We needed to run this campaign because...")
Here's a picture of Paxman, who certainly looks like a nice person who shouldn't be cheated on.
What a coincidence, then, to see in today's Boston Globe a story about...Kyle Paxman, headlined "
In Vermont, A Canceled Wedding is Transformed into Celebration." The Globe, of course, is owned by the Times.
Did Kyle Paxman send out press releases? Or does the Globe just take dictation from the its owner, the Times?
Here, from the Globe, is another picture of Kyle Paxman, with her mom. Still lovely.
Well, all laughing about the media aside, good for Paxman to try to turn lemons into lemonade. It's more than I was able to do in a similar situation.
And a note of class: Paxman refused to indentify her fiancee. I think that's quite elegant. (Compare that to, say, "
firecrotch.") Whoever he is, he must be rueing the day he decided that infidelity was a good idea.
