Word: denialism
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...away the social conditioning, smash through the corporate glass ceiling, get rid of all the historical biases, and what you have are two creatures who are equally capable of doing whatever the other can do. For these feminists, sexual equality means a recognition of the androgynous ideal and a denial of gender stereotypes, or what Boyle calls, the "traditional' feminine roles." These stereotypes, the argument goes, have been artificially maintained specifically to keep women barefoot and pregnant, and especially to keep them from participating with the Big Boys downtown. By deconstructing the biases on which society has been built, feminists...
...thinking were accused of blaming the victims. Today the leading voices are authors Alice Baum and Donald Burnes, who claim the very word "homelessness" is a misnomer coined by activists to persuade the public that street people are just regular folks with a housing problem. In A Nation in Denial: The Truth About Homelessness, Baum and Burnes claim 85% of all homeless people suffer from alcoholism, drug abuse or mental illness. The authors' stated aim is to force society "to stop making distinctions between the deserving and the undeserving poor" and address the underlying problems head on. More often, their...
Rollins and his staff have been studiously denying all of his initial comments. Denial presents a daunting task, when three top campaign people make the same "mistake." Rollins has explained his comments as lies intended to rile James Carville, the campaign manager of former governor and Whitman opponent Jim Florio. (You might recall Carville as the guy who engineered the defeat of Perot and one notable Republican a year ago.) Is Ed Rollins, pundit par excellence, really stupid and immature enough to say things that could get him arrested just to dig at Jim Carville? Luckily, the Democratic State Committee...
CARTAGENA: This year's Miss Colombia pageant set tongues wagging over statistics other than the usual vital ones. The ruckus began with whispers that a contestant, Catherine Sanchez Hernandez, was secretly married and therefore ineligible. The current Miss Amazon issued a denial -- "I would never falsify my marital status because after all I am studying law" -- but resigned after the priest who performed her wedding ceremony appeared with certificate in hand. She was not studying law; she wasn't even from the Amazon region. In fact, only nine of the 25 contestants were born in the departments they represented...
...face as he transforms himself into a woman in "A Little More Mascara" is hilariously frivolous. His singing is predictably nasal and weak as Zsa-Zsa, but intent and masculine in "I am what I am," signaling the end of Albin's tolerance for Jean-Michel's denial...