Word: complicitous
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...designer Todd Weekly hope to make the audience part of the experience by physically integrating them into the action, thereby transforming them from silent pieces of the set’s backdrop into actual houseguests. “Though [the audience members] begin as spectators, they become a complicit aspect of the complicated and exciting games,” says Wilner. “It’s a bit intimate and a bit different, given there isn’t the same boundary between the actors and the audience. And that way the audience will have more power...
...opportunity and the cause, from excessive alcohol consumption to unclear relationship expectations, to rape them. She also writes that “morning-after guilt and regrets can give way to overblown cries of violation or abuse.” Not only are we to believe that victims are complicit in their own attacks, but we must also doubt victims’ intentions in reporting crimes...
...will change males’ responses to women, or why requiring both partners’ explicit consent is not the logical solution to the gray areas she identifies. Worst of all, her argument assumes that women with “common sense gone askew” are complicit in sexual attacks...
...digital affairs of students represents a breach of rights to privacy, and Harvard has practiced commendable restraint in that regard. An increase in such inspection would represent a threat to the trust and respect between University administrators and the student body. Of course, the college need not be complicit in the purported crimes of its students. Regardless of pressure from the RIAA, it is not the task of a university to patrol cyberspace in search of wrongdoing. The music industry has been able to investigate (and litigate) piracy before, and it should not lean against campus administrators to take...
Sending Rice to salvage the ruin that is American foreign policy is much like sending Jack the Ripper to conduct the autopsy of his victims. Rice is complicit in creating the policies that have reduced our standing in the world to that of a bullying and ignorant monolith blinded by its own elevated sense of importance. Like President George W. Bush, Secretary Rice needs to admit numerous mistakes before she can hope to shape the government of other nations...