Word: argumentativeness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There are more pressing reasons why some girls feel that masturbation is simply not the thing to do. The social stigmas, though dying fast, are still around. Masturbation is seen by some as pitiful or even dirty. The common argument is that a woman who masturbates is pathetic and should be concentrating on getting that pleasure from a significant other. A male sophomore in Cabot house voiced his general disapproval about women pleasing themselves; "personally I'm against it--because that's why I'm not getting...
However, I take issue with her statement that "it's not all that important in the scheme of things." I could approach this as a philosophical argument (after all, what really is important in the scheme of things?), but I'll leave that to the philosophy concentrators out there. No, the importance of baseball lies in its unique power...
...Jennifer Bodnar, stopping in en route to Vermont, quibble in front of the bakery window before finally settling on a key lime pie--Jay's choice--after some good-natured argument...
...very hard for Harvard to use that argument," says Elizabeth L. Randall, FAS' capital projects manager...
...final problem with Body Shots is that it doesn't really offer anything new. Date rape is an important issue, but the discussion of "did he or didn't he" is reduced to a "he said, she said" argument, and nothing more. The filmmakers also seem to derive large segments of the film from other media. Like the aforementioned commercial derivation, numerous scenes and themes are ripped off from other films. The only concrete aspect of Body Shots is that it is very self conscious of the message it wants to portray and in doing so, removes any weight...