Each week, the Washington Post magazine runs its “First Person Singular” feature, in which a famous person gets to write his or her own biography. It’s particulary amusing when egomaniacal politicians get to frame their own lives with their own words. Reminds me of that scene in The Office where Brent keeps answering the reporter from Paper who’s doing a profile of him with the copy he wants her to write — “Brent quipped…” or, “Brent replied, sardoncially…”

This week’s irritating contribution for the Post feature comes from California Senatestress Barbara Boxer. Excerpt:

I’ve always been feisty. I think I’ve always kind of been a believer in saying it like it is, even as a little girl. If I saw a disabled person on the subway train — I grew up in New York — and people were staring, my mother would say to me, “Never ever, ever look at somebody in such a way as those people are doing. And if you see it, you speak up.” That stuck with me.

What, I wonder, is the appropriate way to look at a disabled person?

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