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...pornography that are distasteful and destructive. The sort of violent pornography that treats women exclusively as subordinate objects, for instance, reveals a disturbing element of sexual desire. Yet, however tacky or disgusting we may find it, we should recognize that most porn is just the extreme end of a gradient of objectification that occurs regularly in society—involving both men and women. Movies, ads, casual flirting—all can sometimes involve an element of objectification in how we look at others, but that does not mean they are always inherently harmful. MacKinnon’s brand...
...many settings where inebriants flowed, but my reasoning was strictly practical. Men ruled the world, as anyone could see, so the trick was to do as they did. No girlie major like art history or French lit for me. I started in chemistry and then proceeded up the gender gradient to physics, finally achieving in Classical Mechanics the exalted status of only girl in the class...
BEVERLY HILLS Debra Messing wore Michael Kors' sunglasses with brown gradient lenses and gold detail ($225) to his fall show...
ROME Bulgari's Flora wrap-arounds ($649) with Swarovski flowers have gradient lenses for Mediterranean rays...
...which the chemical structures common to all animals can be pushed. The worms, known as Paralvinella sulfincola, can withstand conditions where water pressure reaches 4,000 psi and temperatures can change from 2 degrees to 350 degrees over a few millimeters. Girguis and his team recreated this temperature gradient on a smaller scale in their lab, constructing a tank of water that was cold on one end and hot on the other. Worms were then scattered randomly across the tank. Instead of standing still, as Girguis had expected them to, the worms all migrated to the region of the water...