Word: discomforts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...seems that The Crimson's discomfort with the BGTLSA's militancy has to do with a socially acceptable, yet morally wrong, attitude that accepts the conceptual idea of homosexuality yet rejects actual sexual manifestation. I am incredibly disappointed that The Crimson's staff has chosen such a weak and uninteresting position. Sexually explicit BGTLSA posters have a larger cultural point which is relevant and necessary. The Crimson's own reaction to these posters indicates a radical difference between the ways in which gay and straight sexuality are viewed on campus...
...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...
...years ago. "She's a 'warrior' who's insistent on getting ahead with things," says Lake. "He's a CEO who's trying to wake up to his feelings. But she'd rather see him as a big strong guy than a guy scared of so many things." Her discomfort is similar to that of other women Lake has seen; they find their partner's emotionality unmasculine. "Women have overtly embraced the idea of feeling, nurturing men," says William Pollack, author of Real Boys, "but inside, they still have the same models of men they were brought...