Word: innuendo
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...didn't really feel like people had to say funny things to break the tension," says Diane J. Klein '87, She adds, "I was reluctant to come, because I thought it would be reduced to innuendo and double-entendre, but it wasn...
This sense that women are unwelcome pervades academic life. It begins with the sheer numbers and feeds on discriminatory treatment, either passing or studied, by male colleagues, supervisors or professors. The unease can take shape with a sexist joke or offensive innuendo; it takes root with a supervisor's comment--reported in the survey--of "Shut up, you bitch." When women faculty feel reluctant to speak their views in faculty meetings because of such remarks, or female students stop seeking advice from a sexist professor, their academic freedom is curtailed. Furthermore, their reticence then perpetuates stereotypes that women are academically...
Faculty Advisor Thomas Everett said the original program might 'have been funnier, but added that, "at a time when people are watching very closely," it was good policy to avoid what might be interpreted as sexual innuendo...
...understand and appreciate the need for confidentiality to protect individuals. But the University's silence has left a vacuum now filled by destructive rumor and innuendo which can only further harm the victims of Professor Dominguez's reported abuse...
...language and sex. Prime time is like a twelve-year-old tentatively imitating his big bad brother: sneaking a cigarette, practicing a curse word, miming an open-mouthed kiss. Sex can only be suggested, of course, but it may also be suggestive; one smoldering glance can steam up any innuendo. Extract from the pilot script for Emerald Point N.A.S. (CBS), a Jacuzzi-hot soap opera set on a naval base: "PAN FROM the clothes on the floor TO a man's jeans and Levi jacket draped over a chair. From just [off screen], little bleating sounds of passion...