Word: flirt
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...Drag Night land. The fetish of femininity is so powerful, that it’s just not as fun to go against the grain. So although women do participate in the event, the main acts and personalities have usually been male. At best, Drag Night allows us to flirt with the gender binary, without taking any serious risks. At worst, it celebrates expectations of femininity that women would rather do without, and ridicules the reality of trans experience...
...late '80s, Earle seemed to flirt with outright opposition to capital punishment. His office brought no death-penalty cases in 1988 or '89 and only one the following year. He took to telling people he was worried that capital punishment had become "a coarsening factor in the culture." Then along came Kenneth McDuff. Decades earlier, in the summer of 1966, McDuff and a friend abducted three teenagers--two boys and a girl. After robbing them, McDuff shot each boy in the head several times. Then he and his accomplice repeatedly raped the girl before crushing her throat with a broom...
...about the women in Franklin's life, began her long career as a Franklin expert by translating his correspondence from French to English. Says she: "I basked in Franklin's relationships with the stars of the Enlightenment, the scientists, the economists and the Parisiennes who taught him how to flirt." Closer to home, our reporter Heather Won Tesoriero offers a traveler's guide to Franklin's adopted hometown of Philadelphia, where signs of Ben's legacy are indelible...
...ditty, “Work It,” infused our daily speech. “I need a glass of wa-ter,” an innocuous dining-hall apropos phrase, became understood as “give me some space; I’m trying to flirt with this guy in the line.” But our social dynamic wasn’t about just playing up the overdone behavior that we are told should exist between gay guys and a girl. Our room always seemed terribly honest, because we created an environment that was infused with...
...Someone was a tad trashed last night. At least I’m not a mean drunk. But I do flirt a bit too much...especially with big guys...