Word: joking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...debate between those committed feminists who regard the attitudes espoused within the newsletter as something akin to a crime committed by a "bastion of beer swilling misogynists," and Club members, who treat the matter lightly and cannot understand the commotion over such an innocuous thing as a joke, a parody. On one level, of course the newsletter was a joke (crude though it was). Yet one cannot help but sense that the basis of such joking lies in something concrete, in the images of women that are continuously reinforced by advertising, books, television, movies and the media in general...
Second, Mr Keating calls the letter a "parody," a "light-hearted" joke. If this was truly the case, then he and his friends must be reminded that certain "jokes" must be unacceptable in our society. Comments which denigrate women by calling them "heifers," and which encourage the violent use of male sexuality fall within this category...
...financial term for an emotional relationship may be a symptom of national economic malaise or simply a sign that more accountants are falling in love. Fidelity. Term of praise for obeying the commitment. Insensitive. The offender is not serious about the commitment or, possibly, told a truly tasteless joke. Interface. To have a relationship. Macho. Term of abuse for men who refuse to wash dishes or are otherwise insensitive. Mature. Ready to make a commitment. However, it may mean pornographic when applied to books and movies. Nonexploitive. A favorable term. He doesn't complain about washing the dishes. Nonmanipulative...
...were doing this whole parody of rock concerts. Joseph [Jarman] came out naked as a joke, pretending to jam on a guitar, and everything was cool. We had these smoke bombs, though, and we were throwing em out into the audience--but then we found out they were fire bombs instead. Sleeping bags were catching fire and the crowd throwing the bombs back. People thought we were trying to sabotage the festival," he laughs...
...movie theater, a woman can simply cross the street. Vulgar sexism becomes far more threatening, however, within a close-knit campus, such as Harvard's, precisely because men and women are so closely intermingled--usually in an impressive display of peaceful coexistence. To realize that the same men who "joke" about pig feast may be the guys through the fire door, is to feel suddenly ill at case among what was thought to be a family of sorts. In a moment, it's Harvard as Freshman Mixer all over again...