Word: bastardization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...those films are memorialized in Tarantino's own. "People ask if my love of movies can be too much," he says. "What annoys me about the question is the snobbery; it treats movies like a bastard art form. Could a novelist ever read too many books, or a musician listen to too much music? Well, I totally love movies...
...human community, i.e., "legitimacy." A child that no man has claimed -- either through marriage or later legal "legitimation" procedures -- becomes somehow less worthy and less human. In English common law, an out- of-wedlock child was filius nullius, meaning child of no one. The kid was a bastard; the mother, being single and female, counted for nothing...
...caught between two male-dominated cultures, a natural writer in English whose parents are literate only in Chinese. In addition to being captivated by folk mythology, she is, like most writers, in the grip of intense family mythology -- about an aunt shamed to suicide by giving birth to a bastard, about uncles murdered by communists who then arrogantly urge her father, safely in America, to "donate" the dead men's lands. These stories clearly indicated to young Kingston that America was better than China. Yet in the everyday dealings of her parents with a world that they did not understand...
McGuire seems to feel that he has cornered the market on "rational discourse" and "intelligent criticism," yet he describes the feminist term "empowerment" as "a code-word for abortion rights, universalized day care and the celebration for 'liberated mothers' and their bastard children". Rational debate or political diatribe (informed by a paranoid right-wing agenda)? You be the Judge...
Finally, this modern pagan vehemently objects to the use of the word 'bastard' to describe anyone's children. I believe in family planning, but after children are born they should be loved and supported unconditionally, not gratuitously stigmatized on the basis of obsolete concepts such as 'legitimacy'. Carsey Yee GSAS