Word: laughingly
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Gender parity takes more than a condom, a club, or a career. It’s a consciousness. Many undergraduates can relate stories of being in mixed company, hearing a man tell a misogynist joke, and feeling compelled to laugh along rather than risk making anyone uncomfortable. Caring about women’s issues doesn’t jibe with the ironically detached Harvard woman of today, who wants everyone to stop being all sensitive, so nobody gets angry—or worse, starts acting like some kind of feminist or something...
Another time, during a jocular skirmish, my roommate graffitied on the wall (in pencil, of course), “Ben is a faggot.” We look back on this and laugh: The day a hate crime was visited on Currier House...
...York City Council resolution is a desperate, last-ditch effort, launched by people with a myopic view of their own blackness. Their campaign would all but turn us into statues, unable to laugh at the world - and most importantly, to laugh at ourselves...
...word in quote marks above. She didn't say "John Edwards is a faggot." She would never say that - not because she respects the rights of gays to full equality before the law (she doesn't) - but because it wouldn't be funny. Coulter wants to make people laugh more than anything; she is, as I have argued here, a right-wing ironist and comedienne as much as she is a political commentator. This is obvious if you watch her speak with the sound off - she is smiling or even giggling most of the time; she theatrically rolls her eyes...
Every day at the Israeli checkpoint going from my home in Bethlehem to visit TIME's Jerusalem Bureau, I see a sign that makes me laugh. Written in English, Hebrew, and Arabic, it says: "Peace Be With...