Word: conformity
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Oftentimes, the left aligns abstinence with repression, and those on the right conflate sexual liberalism with a pathology of need, while each accusing the other group of limiting women’s options and forcing them to conform to a sexual ideal. Meanwhile, the majority of women at Harvard continue on as they always have, trying to distance themselves from both extremes. The pop-culture ideal, to enjoy a “Sex and the City”-style series of casual hookups while walking the line between enough sexual activity to keep one from being a prude...
...Presidents and presidential candidates have long felt pressured to conform to unnatural and confining standards. Those who couldn't meet them often pretended that they had. One of the strictest requirements, since Andrew Jackson inaugurated the era of the common man, has been that the President fulfill what historian Edward Pessen called the log-cabin myth: the personal-creation narrative that begins with humble roots. For some Presidents--the Roosevelts and J.F.K. spring to mind--the effort was clearly impossible. But other patricians in the White House have passed as plebians. In 1840 the supporters of William Henry Harrison called...
Students’ daily schedules do not often conform to their biological clocks’ pleas for them to sleep when it begins to grow dark outside...
...judged on a continuum from greater to lesser, revealing instead that they are evaluated based on assumptions about the individual’s ability for doing, in combination with his or her capacity to feel sensations like hunger and pride. The authors of the study suggest that their findings conform to classical theories of morality and responsibility. “How we view a character’s moral worth really depends on how much experience we perceive them to have. The more experience and worth, the more we would worry about hurting them,” said Kurt...
Another issue involves equipment. About 10 years ago, it dawned on ski- and bootmakers that, because of their build, women need lighter, more flexible skis to carve turns, handle bumps and stave off fatigue, as well as boots that better conform to their soles, heels, ankles and calves. With that, a knot of female designers hit the workbench with one thought: the days of shortening a set of men's skis, slapping some pink paint on them and palming them off on women were over. "We don't design jockstraps, so why should men design women's skis?" jokes Alison...