Word: differences
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...individual human being, in all his or her complexity, into a category based on sex is wrong, both morally and descriptively. Everyone agrees to this when we talk historically about male stereotypes of women, but people find it much harder to condemn when women are the stereotypers. Women differ as much from one another as they do from men; no single Woman's Point of View exists, nor should...
...Prosser, a defense specialist, says it is dangerous for people to decide Simpson's fate before the trial. Facts disseminated through the media may differ significantly from the reality of a courtroom trial 3,000 miles away she says...
George Bachrach begs to differ. In a spot that features him standing in front of a videotape of a debate between Barrett and Roosevelt, Bachrach ridicules the middle-of-the-road approach of his two rivals as pandering to Weld's politics...
While the health-care issue cuts both ways for Wofford, the Clinton factor is a distinct disadvantage. Wofford's campaign committee has gone so far as to prepare a long list of issues on which he and the President differ. "This ((race)) is not a referendum on Bill Clinton," he insists -- though he knows his 1991 victory was widely seen as partly a referendum on George Bush...
...women may differ on whether extramarital sex is a sin. But when the products of such unions are restigmatized as "illegitimate," all women, chaste or otherwise, are potentially on shaky ground. The implication is that a mother can give birth, but only a father can confer full membership in the human community, i.e., "legitimacy." A child that no man has claimed -- either through marriage or later legal "legitimation" procedures -- becomes somehow less worthy and less human. In English common law, an out- of-wedlock child was filius nullius, meaning child of no one. The kid was a bastard; the mother...