Word: misunderstoodness
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...Theory Misunderstood...
...these, she says, women have lost power, consigned to "dreary hookups" or sexual violence. "We want our 'feminine mystique' back," she writes, "and with it male honor." Sitting in a Manhattan restaurant, modestly attired in dark tights and a calf-length, buttoned-up olive shirtwaist, she elaborates: "Modesty is misunderstood as repression, prudery and evil. But it's about your right to limits without being accused of hang-ups." Holding back, she adds, "is about the erotic, not the neurotic, waiting for the right person to try." Meeting her, one is struck first by Shalit's smoothness, then mostly...
...need for a dazzling junior summer experience on your resume is overrated and often misunderstood," says Nancy E. Saunders, assistant director of the Office of Career Services. Many students look for summer jobs that will give them a chance for a lucrative offer the summer before graduation...
...Jackson took a lot of heat for calling New York "Hymietown," and former agriculture secretary Earl Butz's notorious remark correlating black people's ambitions with loose shoes, among other things, deservedly cost him his job. But what if the statement in question was offensive only to people who misunderstood its meaning? Just ask David Howard, a former aide to Washington, D.C., mayor Anthony Williams, who had to resign for using a word that was mistakenly considered to be racist...
...worldwide gay community, I want to express my sympathy to the family and friends of Matthew Shepard, who was killed because he was gay [NATION, Oct. 26]. The murder of this young man is a crime against humanity. I was born in an era when homosexuality was even more misunderstood than it is today, and it was a criminal offense...