Word: maleness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dialogue, I am particularly disheartened by Adam Kovacevich's "As an X, I feel Y" (Opinion, March 15). Kovacevich argues that the introduction of identity, particularly gender and ethnicity, into academic discourse "can be lethal to informed and penetrating scholarly inquiry." This criticism on the part of a white male, who can easily ignore his gender and ethnicity in all aspects of his daily life, to be a patronizing example of what Jean-Paul Sartre describes as "condescending liberalism...
...Furthermore, Lewis does not even acknowledge the traditional view of Shakespeare's sonnets: namely, that the first half of them were written to a "fair young man" for whom Shakespeare had very strong, but non-sexual, feelings. If she thinks Shakespeare's descriptions of his male friend sound a little too intimate to be non-sexual, she should remember that these were not Shakespeare's personal letters, but were openly read and accepted by many of his contemporaries in straight-laced, sexually repressed Elizabethan England...
...everyone realizes that no one in the room has even cracked the source book the tension isn't alleviated. When the TF starts asking questions and only gets blank stares in return, one girl sympathizes and decides to make something up. After class, she falls into step with a male classmate exiting Mem Hall...
Furthermore, Lewis does not even acknowledge the traditional view of Shakespeare's sonnets: namely, that the first half of them were written to a "fair young man" for whom Shakespeare had very strong, but non-sexual, feelings. If she thinks Shakespeare's descriptions of his male friend sound a little too intimate to be non-sexual, she should remember that these were not Shakespeare's personal letters, but were openly read and accepted by many of his contemporaries in straight-laced, sexually repressed Elizabethan England...
After finding his laptop computer stolen at the Science Center last Saturday morning, a 19-year-old male approached the two individuals who were walking off with his computer and retrieved his property successfully...