Word: exploiter
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...with feminism per se, but with feminism incompletely or dishonestly or opportunistically pursued. Women must do their share, not just take the share they find attractive. Equality must be equality in all things, not just in the professional opportunities that white middle- and upper- middle-class women wish to exploit. Equality is a matter of real responsibility and risk, of accepting the liabilities as well as claiming the assets...
...collision produces a dishonest configuration. Women elaborately manipulate and exploit men's natural sexual attraction to the female body, and then deny the manipulation and prosecute men for the attraction -- if the attraction draws in the wrong man. Women cannot for long combine fiery indignation and continuing passivity (attempting to have the best of both those worlds...
Injecting these unresolvable issues into our public life serves only to feed our growing frustration toward politics. People cease to view government as a set of institutions responsive to our individual opinions and energy. And demagogues rush in to exploit this political resentment...
...much as they scare us with their reactionary, knee-jerk rhetoric, Perot and Limbaugh scare Washington even more, Politicians tremble when they sense that public opinion, which they thought was theirs to manipulate, is escaping their control. Even though Limbaugh and Perot exploit our cynicism to promote themselves, they unwittingly create an opportunity for the public to engage itself more constructively in political life...
...seems bitter when discussing the media and its treatment of movies. "Good motion picture criticism is hard to find. Those who are ready, willing and able to exploit the cinema are easy to find. All the easy stories are going to be written for two reasons. One, they're easy. Two, there's money...