Word: hysterias
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...quite a jewel, and this book certainly proves that. Few authors I know can be so subversively ironic: your critique of feminism as a cult of professional victimhood is hilarious when juxtaposed with your constant complaints of being victimized by feminists everywhere! And your claim that date-rape hysteria infantalizes women and turns them into powerless waifs is so funny in light of you mocking and belittling those little women so relentlessly...
When Roiphe alleges that date-rape awareness and campus safety lights create a climate of anxiety where none existed, she implies that fear of rape is irrational hysteria, churned up by frantic activists. But women do get raped, and being aware of one's vulnerability is prudent, not alarmist...
Wherever he dug up the feelings -- his decades of defeat surely helped -- Hawthorne unforgettably evokes a man who is at once ruler and soiled dependent, blending dignity and hysteria, imperiousness and despair. He makes one hungry to see him all-out as Learand grateful that he finds Shakespearean depths in lesser parts because he finds them in himself...
...they entered pleas of not guilty. The courtroom was packed with security men, since three Egyptian extremist organizations had vowed "revenge" if Abdel Rahman is harmed. Defense lawyers accused the government of conflating rumors and suspicions into a fantasy conspiracy to whip up a new kind of cold war hysteria, substituting Islamic fundamentalism for communism as the enemy...
...lurid lyrics, sniggering sitcoms and trash-talking stars work hard to rob children of innocence, the sexually abusive parent, guardian or family friend is not only a predator in his own right but also a stand-in for all the gaudy malevolence of pop culture. "There's a social hysteria about child abuse," says Professor Melvin Guyer, a psychologist and lawyer who teaches at the University of Michigan. "It began with the McMartin Pre-School case and continued with Woody Allen. There has been a feeding frenzy, in which the ordinary presumptions of innocence are not applied. The allegations...