Word: insulting
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...insult to the black clergy," said the Rev. Rawle W. Garner, dean of the African Orthodox Churches. "Black ministers are not going to be pawns...for [Republicans or Democrats] to benefit politically...
Closer to home, this year's censure of Crimson President Ira E. Stoll bespeaks the same sort of misdirection. True, he offended the entire Crimson staff with a sexually explicit insult. And true, his action was entirely uncalled for and another example of remarkably poor judgement...
...accorded them by the feminist movement, are shocked by the mere suggestion of male aggression. If Stoll had been a woman who called three male Crimson editors "pricks," then the moment would have passed without anyone even batting an eye. But reverse the roles, and suddenly a marginally sexual insult becomes the basis for scandal...
They're part of a story called "Stupid TV Tricks: The Billion-Dollar Battle to Insult Your Intelligence," which views MTV's animated anti-heroes as harbingers of the downward intellectual spiral of our generation: "They are specifically our losers, totems of an age of decline and nonachievement." And you thought they were just annoying...
...dark side to the nameless generation, poor Beavis and Butthead are the perfect bogeymen. They represent our youthful contingent--more irreverent and more disturbing than their adult for-bears. These little nihilists are Generation X with an attitude, flaunting every imaginable form of repulsive behavior, and then some. They insult their elders. They torture small animals. They have poor personal hygiene. They think everything "sucks." The fact that we love it must be proof of our depravity...