Word: absurdism
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...BGLTSA co-chair Stephanie M. Skier ’05 has decided to liken the battle for gender non-specific washrooms to the much more significant fight for handicap-accessible bathrooms. Her comparison of the plight of a transsexual person to the plight of a paraplegic is not only absurd but also highly offensive to both the disabled and transsexuals alike. Suggesting that the discomfort felt by a transsexual choosing whether to enter a door marked with a stick figure in a skirt or pants is comparable to that suffered by someone who does not have the physical capacity...
There was more to the Kids than drag, though, and more to their drag than easy yuks. They were postfeminist men having absurd, dark fun with gender roles and p.c., long before The Man Show dumbed both subjects down. As Bruce McCulloch recalls in a bonus-disc interview, for instance, his girlfriend's being hit on by leches inspired Cabbage Head, a vegetable-pated boor who claims women who won't sleep with him are bigots. ("It's because I have a cabbage for a head, isn't it?!") The Kids were also among the first TV comics to deal...
This is a delightful observation, if a bit confusing. Is he disdaining Allen's deadpan intellectual angst or celebrating Woody's early comic flights into the existential absurd? No matter. Any Woody Allen reference is a nice surprise from a President who affects a militant lack of sophistication. More important, the story reveals that Bush has an acute awareness of the impression he makes in the world. His policies may be haphazard, but his public appearances aren't. He is not a simpleton. He just plays one--wittingly, it seems--on TV. "He has a stratospheric EQ," a Senator once...
...nostalgic for an era I never knew. Not just any era, but (even more absurd, I know) an era I likely wouldn’t have enjoyed very much, or at all?...
...General Assembly include the Castros, Mugabes, Assads and Kim Jong-Il’s of the world. Such amoral legitimizing of totalitarian thugs alongside democratic statesmen once prompted former U.S. ambassador Daniel Patrick Moynihan to call the United Nations “a theater of the absurd, a decomposing corpse, and an insane asylum...