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According to Kinsey, sexuality is a continuum. On the heterosexual-to- homosex ual scale of 0 to 6 that he devised, only 50% of male subjects can be classified as exclusively straight and 4% exclusively gay. Sharrard falls right in the middle of the Kinsey scale, equally attracted to men and women, but such balance is rare. Tessina calls herself a 2, mostly heterosexual...
...forgers of checks, the disorderly persons the possessors of class D substances with intent to distribute, the minors carrying alcoholic beverages, the passers of counterfeit bills, the right turners on red, the utterers of forged instruments--each gets his five minutes of attention. Only the lunch break punctuate the continuum...
...understand that I am one in a continuum of women who have found the department to be less than supportive," said Graff. She said she was not leaving because of any sexual harassment which she herself has experienced...
Hatred of women exists on a continuum, and it expresses itself in verbal as well as physical acts of violence. We are not willing, like Galper, to dismiss what he calls "time-old complaints about shuttle buses and escort services." We have demanded physical safety and greater protection from the University repeatedly, and we will continue...
Doesn't it trivialize the abhorrent evil that racism is when we use it as an imprecise label that, on even the most abstract logical continuum, leads someone to juxtapose a remark about communal use of a toaster with Hitler's gas chambers...