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...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...
...mother either sensed my discomfort or was just really mad about the poem thing, because she sat me at a table as far away from her as possible. This helped keep me from hearing the speeches, the theme of most of which seemed to be how she was never happier in her life. It was during these speeches I discovered that if I took big enough bites of bruschetta, I couldn't hear a thing...
...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...
During the second semester of my first year here at Harvard, after the trauma of blocking had long past but still elicited a twinge of discomfort, conversation between my friends and I turned to the influence Annenberg dining hall had had in our lives. Why had Harvard decided to feed all 1600-plus first-years in the same cavernous dining hall? Didn't they realize how intimidating it was to walk in and have to sit with someone you barely knew from section because you couldn't find your roommates among the mass? Sure, it was fine now, but Annenberg...
...dynamic effect is most obvious in Hata's ties to his long-dead comfort woman and his troublesome daughter. Both are objects of his care and devotion. Both cause him plenty of discomfort. How Hata handles his past and the constant tension between social acceptance and his chronic sense of not belonging finally have little to do with his origins. Chang-rae Lee, whose first novel, 1995's Native Speaker, announced the arrival of a new talent, makes sure of Hata's humanity by giving him an inner life independent of ethnicity and suburban status. But the contrast between Hata...