Word: hairlessness
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...what we really want to know is, How do you go from one day being perhaps the second most powerful person in the country, as the Washington Post had it, to becoming a bloated, hairless, poisoned shell of yourself, without drowning in Why me? All lives are equally precious, but swashbuckling politicians who swagger through life surrounded by aides whispering in their ears, who exercise power over people like House Speaker Tip O'Neill (who once referred to the upstart Jordan as Hannibal Jerkin), shock us when they're stricken...
...Japanese warrior ethic.) Based on the recent public debate surrounding the portrayal of minorities in the media, it is not clear whether the use of the word is appropriate…[But] bushido does invoke images of strength and combat, not math or science. Think samurai, not hairless. So, the Asian American Association (AAA) might actually be grateful...
...must congratulate Oppenheim for using both tropes so effectively in the same paragraph. In a wonderfully facetious tone, he says that all Asian men are sexless and hairless math geeks while at the same time irrational and rabid samurai...
...Asian-Americans are of Japanese descent. My use of the word in this context fails to appreciate the beautiful rainbow of ethnic diversity that exists under the Asian umbrella. On the other hand, bushido does invoke images of strength and combat, not math or science. Think samurai, not hairless. So, the Asian American Association (AAA) might actually be grateful...
Asian-American males have often been portrayed in the media as short, hairless, socially awkward nerds with a disproportionate love for math and science. This issue of negative racial stereotypes in the media has made itself manifest in The Crimson's own daily comic strip, "The Misanthropic...