Word: fetishizing
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Lawn is the curse of suburban man, his bizarre fetish, the great green god he sprays to. Lawn must be barbered to the satisfaction of one's neighbors, or it earns their dirty looks and, in some tightly strung communities, a summons from city hall. The ideal lawn is featureless, a living imitation of Astroturf. Striving to achieve it soaks up water, money and weekend goof-off time in fantastic quantities...
...store at 932 Mass Ave., where they say they "had bullwhips before Mapplethorpe," is aptly named Hubba Hubba. This erotic establishment, which started out as an antique clothing store and later moved to punk, today features what artist/owner Susan R. Phelps calls "bondage and fetish clothing...
Secondly, interracial relationships--the issue I sought to address in my multiethnic dating remark--are still viewed as taboo and as deviating from a supposed "norm." We are all familiar with the derogatory term "Asian fetish" sometimes used to describe a relationship between a non-Asian man and an Asian woman. There, I submit, lies your real racism...
Certainly no artist before World War I would have thought so. The real issue has always been discovery and use, not dismissal, of the mighty energies of the past -- compared with which the fetish of innovation and the claims of revolution are mostly chatter...
...attempt to become the unobstrusive, all-observing Maury Pauvich, Jeschke conveniently stereotypes the Wellesley student as a "giggling and chattering," "self-absorbed" woman with a fetish for hair spray, high heels and strong perfume. We as Wellesley students are offended by having ourselves, along with 2200 other Wellesley women, lumped into this brainless and wanton image so vividly portrayed in this unnecessarily long article...