Professor Sarah Phillips, in Politics of the American Environment, trying to prompt commentary on the painting at right, after cautious musings about "closing" and "movement":

"Does pink have a gendered element to it?" [silence].

"This is kind of awkward, but I think we need to see this as a virginal landscape."

Class squirms. Then she really does it.

"I think we need to see an opening. A rosy opening."