Word: discomfort
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...attempting to eliminate a potentially uncomfortable source of sexual tension. We hope that most students who request the change usually do not harbor negative feelings against gays in particular but rather feel somehow uncomfortable living with a gay roommate. The FDO, then, is merely alleviating a particular kind of discomfort...
...intimacy of the recently designed service area clashes discordantly with the cavernous gloom of the Eliot House dining area. The dining hall does not integrate efficiency and intimacy but grafts the two onto each other like some ghastly sideshow freak. Any dining experience there is a fitful shift between discomfort and comfort, between Harvard and home...
This is the typical reaction; sanitizing our indignation with buzz-words like "discourse" and "zero tolerance" makes us feel warm and fuzzy. But there seems to be no inclination to sit down and openly discuss discomfort with homosexuality...
...recognize it as your legitimate representative government, the Undergraduate Council has just spoken on our behalf when it passed a series of anti-homophobic bills last week. The University will now have to think again about its automatic policy of switching students out of their suites because they experience discomfort with the sexual orientation of their roommates...
...until people lose their actual fear of gay and lesbian sex while maintaining a pretense of political and cultural liberalism, the BGTLSA's militancy is a necessary and vital political force on campus. It would be unfortunate if it were to splinter due to the vague feeling of discomfort that some prospective members have at the organization's vigorous assertions of homosexual social equality...