Word: enjoy
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These same men will assert that women enjoy and even solicit the attention. Fortunately, most women are not so badly in need of affection. Being ogled by complete strangers--often dirty old men--simply because I happen to have been born a woman is not flattering. Having to change directions because a leering man is sauntering toward me is not flattering. Having to leave a party early because a male under the influence of alcohol is persuaded that he is Romeo and all the women are Juliet is not flattering...
Although women too often cannot walk down a street or enjoy a meal in peace, many of us continue to claim that our society has achieved equality of the sexes. Legally, women may enjoy the same rights and protections as men. Professionally, women are beginning to rise to leadership positions. Even in their own self-esteem, many women now view themselves on a par with...
Meanwhile, a select few continue to reap the benefits of FSCs. Only about two-tenths of 1% of corporations that file tax returns have an FSC. Of those that do, fewer than 50 big exporters enjoy most of the tax benefits. Among them: AlliedSignal, Boeing, Caterpillar and Motorola, which together have escaped payment of more than $600 million in federal income tax over the past three years, thanks to their FSCs...
What the elect don't know, but Allen insists on, is that the state of grace they enjoy is not secular sainthood. That is to say, it is generally unearned by good works and suffering. It is, at best, a capricious cosmic joke and therefore nothing to get puffed up about. "I've become the kind of woman I've always hated," Robin says wonderingly at the end of her journey, "but I'm happier." There's a moral buried inside that irony. Or maybe it's the nasty core truth of our times. Whatever it is, Celebrity...
...give my life meaning. I am my sanction, and my purpose is my own rational happiness. If I choose to live my life in service to others, so be it. But if I, the selfish man that I am, want to pursue a career that I actually enjoy, I will not seek anyone's permission, nor acknowledge any demands for justification. I will pursue my own selfish desire without regard to its "socially responsible" character...