Word: egalitarians
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...other calling for the end of female submission by criticizing penetrative sex. Such stimulating topics attracted an eclectic group of over a dozen students of different genders, races, and sexual orientations. While some found the feminist relationship—whereby men and women partake in an entirely egalitarian partnership—attainable, others viewed it as an impossible ideal. RUS Co-Chair Dara F. Goodman ’07 said she believes in this feminist fairytale. “I think it’s potentially the most long-lasting and fulfilling kind of relationship one could have...
...propose the construction of a futuristic, spherical, rotating dorm (whose name should include equal quantities of each letter of the alphabet, so all feel equally important) in which the rooms are equidistant from every location on and off campus, from the mail center to Logan Airport. In an egalitarian society, I should not have to make the perilous journey across the yard every day, fending off angry foreigners and their pets, if Mr. Canaday can so easily bypass the John Harvard statue and all its accompanying mayhem. But the tyrannical rampage of random privilege does not stop at housing...
...popular surfing spot in North Cronulla, resulting in attacks on police and ambulance workers as well as the destruction of over 100 vehicles. Adding insult to injury, the riots also unveiled Australia’s embarrassing secret: a deep-seated racial intolerance, normally hidden behind a deceptive respect for egalitarian ideals. With one-quarter of all Australians born overseas, the overwhelming prevalent racial prejudice poses a serious threat to national cohesion and unity...
...intensity of urban violence, though, the actual incidents of malfeasance—burning cars, pelting police and firemen with rocks and bottles—are very common. Despite the popular stereotypes of American cities as drug-infested dens of violence and European cities as clean, safe, and egalitarian, crime rates in European cities have been skyrocketing for the past decade and have equaled—and in many cases surpassed—those of their American counterparts. Part of the reason that the riots were so difficult for many to comprehend here is that they cut against so many ingrained...
Surely this type of dark-age bigotry was relegated to nothing but memory. Snobbery seems part of that bygone era of unpleasant memories here at our enlightened institution of learning—an era that was long ago replaced by the egalitarian progressive paradise that is today’s Cambridge, Mass. Today, we tell ourselves, Harvard students are accepting of those different than us, and would never exhibit any of the mannerisms of those old, dead, white, European males we so often mock...