Word: dykes
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Miller often used four letter words, and offensive terms such as "dyke," "fag," or "half-man," but his method of delivering them, and his acceptance of them as a matter of course somehow reclaimed them from obscenity...when he talked about his experience as "a young fag in love, scared shitless," it was touching and funny, never discomfiting...
...homosexual by nature, but an "out, loud and proud" dyke by choice. My being attracted to and sleeping with women has never hurt anyone, in any way, except for making the homophobes on campus slightly uncomfortable. People tend to get nervous when they are faced with differences, especially differences that make them re-evaluate their systems of morality...
...Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, seem dated, and neither time nor camp tastes have improved Mister Ed. But even middling sitcoms like The Patty Duke Show are more effortlessly engaging than most of the nervous joke machines that pass for comedies today. Good ones like The Dick Van Dyke Show remind us that the trivial plot lines of old domestic comedies were often a mask for shrewd satire of suburban neuroses. The best ones, like I Love Lucy, which invented the vocabulary for the modern sitcom, have the formal perfection and infinite repeatability of great pop music...
...exception, according to Linda Grant De Pauw, president of the Minerva Center, an educational facility dealing with women in the armed services. "The absolute military ban on homosexuals creates an opening for sexual harassment," she says. "Military women live in mortal fear of being called a dyke. When the man says, 'Sleep with me or I'll say you're a lesbian,' it is terrifically effective where women know they may be kicked out if the charge is made...
...likely to come under fire than men, gay rights advocates charge, in part because the presence of women in the services has never been fully accepted. Wilson thinks the greater discharge rates of lesbians reflects the belief that "women in the military are thought to be either whores or dykes. So if you're not a whore you must be a dyke." Though any hint of homosexual activity means close scrutiny, gay military personnel say a good deal of wayward heterosexual activity is tolerated, even tacitly approved, by the military hierarchy. At the end of the gulf war, a Nevada...