Word: nessness
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GLIB attorney Gretchen Van Ness said that gaysand lesbians are still the target of a bigotrythat goes largely unnoticed...
...Blacks, Jews or other protected minoritieshad this happen to them, it would be crystal clearthat this is discrimination," Van Ness said...
This blatant association of "girlish[ness]" with an ability to formulate well-reasoned, logical opinions resonated loudly with the previous day's debate. Here was an unambiguously negative use of a term denoting femaleness, in which the negative implications sprang from the very gender being invoked. One could not ignore the gendered root of this word, without losing the idea it was expressing: that certain people acted in a way characteristic of young females, by arguing a point in an irresponsible, giddy manner...
Harvard International Relations Council, Vice President of Strategy; Model United Nations, Charge D'Affaires; Harvard International Review, Design Editor; Harvard-Radcliffe Opportunes, Alto, Tenor; 95.3 WHRB, Ness, Sports...
...long-suffering Harvard Police Department finally has its Eliot Ness...