Word: ego
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...exemplified by Wilson, then, postfeminism is getting along with men without selling oneself short. It is taking responsibility instead of fixing blame. It is partnering and, yes, accomodating the male ego, while still trying to make progress toward equal rights. It is tact instead of confrontation. It is marriage instead of divorce...
Grudges by the vanload: Limbaugh has a hate list bigger than his capacious ego. Of course, those on the list are all liberals, some formidable, some fringe. Feminists -- in Limbaugh's terms "femi-Nazis" -- argue for equal rights on the job because "they can't get a man, and their rage is one long PMS attack." People critical of Los Angeles top cop Daryl Gates "want to abolish the police." The N.A.A.L.C.P. (National Association for the Advancement of Liberal Colored People) is a "Nazi-like police force" because it wanted to investigate one of its chapters' support for Supreme Court...
...everyone is enthralled. Some find the material offensive, the message obscure, the numbers questionable. "Are sales going to offset the cost of Calvin's 116 pages? I suspect not," says a magazine-publishing executive. "His supplement is more of an ego piece." But Klein has no doubts. "People get the message," he says enthusiastically. "It's big, it's sexy and it's so right...
When we finally got to the lobby, he told me to have a nice night and to get home safely. When my ego recovered enough to tell this story to another intern, I found out that the same thing happened...
...police the private lives of others and hammer them into standard forms. In Freudian terms, the busybodies might be the superego of the American personality, the overbearing wardens. The crybabies are the messy id, all blubbering need and a virtually infantile irresponsibility. Hard pressed in between is the ego that is supposed to be healthy, tolerant and intelligent. It all adds up to what the Economist perceptively calls "a decadent puritanism within America: an odd combination of ducking responsibility and telling everyone else what...