Word: companionship
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...fill the vacuum that exists in our lives by what we assume to be the fullness of theirs. And yet how few men arewomen "might force us to eliminate a number of such distinctive groups entirely." Not only were they saying that women from minorities need no female companionship so 1200 women is enough while 3000 men is too few, but they were dusting off the familiar tactic of dividing one oppressed group's fight from another...
...convincingly dismissed because of the drain it would cause on money and on Cambridge housing space. But the reasons given against equalizing male and female enrollment at 6000 each had no foundation other than male supremacy. The first was based on the idea that only male companionship is important for both women and men. (Remember the construction of dorms at Harvard and Radcliffe.) A decrease in the number of men, the report argued, would mean that the remaining men, especially those in racial, geographical, and class minorities, would be so small in absolute numbers that they would have no male...
...Hell knows no fury like a woman scorned." Man, you are paying for your immature notion that you prove manhood by sexual exploitation [Aug. 31]. You failed to understand woman's need for love, protection and companionship. The sexually liberated office girl or career woman mistook your lust for love and turned on you when she realized her mistake...
...Commoner opined that we erred in feeding fish to cats when "we don't even eat the cats." Both men ignore the two basics: creatures are of value for themselves, not just for man. And man, too, suffers when he loses the beauty of wild creatures or the companionship of pets. We feed fish to Mr. Commoner and we don't eat him either...
Wolf concluded that the incest taboo is not a response to the needs of the social order, but an expression of private motives. In short, too much togetherness, in childhood and adolescence, can prevent the companionship from ripening into conjugal love...