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While I think that the generalized theme of female empowerment is a worthy one, the giddy loquaciousness of these books subverts their message.
56) In Indonesia, it was surprising to many Western observers that during the June 1999 election campaign, Megawati was "praised for her silence" while Amien Rais, one of her male presidential rivals, a Muslim leader and political scientist, was "lambasted for his loquaciousness.
The first category sanctifies exhortation, rhetorical plainness, unadorned truth-telling; the second blesses ornate, elaborate eloquence, ludic loquaciousness.
 
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