Word: disrespectful
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Trying to explain feminist opposition to paternity justice laws, Victor Smith, president of Dads Against Discrimination, observes that Americans “have a healthy disrespect for fathers. It’s socially ingrained in our society.” But Bernard Goldberg, a CBS journalist who covered the paternity fraud crisis in 1998, proposes a more sinister hypothesis: Americans have developed hostility toward...
...problem with the way it seems like [the event] could be trivializing to people who have daily experiences with gender dysphoria.” Given the absence of a transgender or transsexual visibility on campus, she says, the occasional occurrence of cross-dressing as a staged spectacle seems to disrespect people who opt to live differently-gendered...
...disrespect to Princeton, but we were just rowing our own race after the first 500 meters,” said junior stroke Kip McDaniel...
...diplomatic standoff on Iraq continued, France became the new foe in this conflict. Whether it was Congress or President George W. Bush himself, name-calling, mockery and general disrespect flew from Washington. Every media outlet picked up the news that the House of Representatives had decided to change the prefix ‘French’ to ‘Freedom’ in both its fries and its toast. Despite the amusing nature of the replacement (mocking the French always elicits a giggle), this change symbolized a more worrisome trend. More recently, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey proposed...
...latest screed entitled “Women Behaving Badly,” Cardinale accuses us “ladies” of, in a way, having brought disrespect (and violence) on ourselves by behaving in a manner as “crass and libidinous” as our male counterparts. I feel my heart beat faster and my skin begin to tingle at this bit of warmed-over anti-feminism from a not-so-distant past (that of Wendy Shalit and A Return to Modesty), and I look around the dining hall to see others with their jaws agape, gasping...