Word: argumentative
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Critics latched onto this ambiguity and lambasted “The Second Sex” for ascribing to a masculinist paradigm. By trivializing women’s reproductive labor, the argument went, Beauvoir reinscribed the gendered binaries which she purported to deny, conflating culture with man and nature with woman. In this view, Beauvoir figured liberation as a masculine concept—as the ability to transcend the limitations of the traditionally feminine. The model of liberation that she offered woman, therein, seemed no different from the existing paradigm proffered...
...argument has little scholarly merit. In the name of state security, it validates demographic strategies of population control that date at least back to Thomas Malthus and have been repeatedly found wanting both intellectually and morally for over two centuries. Also, by attributing to culture what is a political and social phenomenon, Kramer misrepresents the dynamics of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A willingness to sacrifice oneself is not a desire for martyrdom rooted in Palestinian culture. Rather, as has been shown by scholars of the conflict, Palestinian youth turn to violent means to oppose the dehumanizing effects of the Israeli...
...than some other groups, and therefore it made good sense to put an end to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and other welfare programs, because that would discourage African-Americans from reproducing and thus constitute an effective anti-crime program?” And, finally, what if a similar argument was made with regard to the Jewish people? If the Weatherhead Center would distance itself from such arguments and likely condemn them, why does it defend Kramer when he calls, in effect, for a policy of eugenics against Palestinians...
...article’s attack on our alcohol programs was juvenile, but its attack on UHS’s amnesty policy was downright illogical. Mr. Knudson repeatedly invokes the 43 percent rise in UHS admissions since 2005 as overwhelmingly definitive proof of his argument. Yet in the Feb. 17 Crimson article upon which Mr. Knudson based his work, both Ryan Travia of Alcohol and Drug Services and Paul J. Barreira of Behavioral Health and Academic Counseling stated that given the statistics, the causes of the increase in hospitalizations are unclear. Does Mr. Knudson have special knowledge that would lead...
This isn’t a feminist argument against bikinis (plus, look up the etymology of bikini and you’ll find a surprisingly powerful history). I just think it’s weird and inappropriate to wear a bikini in the Yard, only feet away from Faust’s office, or even in the more secluded Quad, where your House Master and dining hall staff can walk by and see your pasty thighs and jiggling boobs...