Word: notionally
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Besides knocking each other around, Martin and Gogarty punched the lights out of several presumptions. First to fall was the notion that women can't box and that if they tried, it would be some variant of boxercise or, worse yet, hot-oil wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions...
Nader laughs at the notion that he might bow out to help Clinton. He considers Clinton pro-corporate America, anti-consumer protection and as averse to campaign-finance reform as any Republican. Besides, Nader adds, "it's hard to be a spoiler in a system that is spoiled to its core." He's already in next week's California primary...
Some 15 years have passed since the rhetoric of the feminist anti-porn movement was appropriated by social-issue conservatives, who were quick to recognize its value. In the early 1980s, when the notion that pornography caused violence against women was beginning to take hold of some feminists, anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly included in her diatribes against sex education a note of concern about the effect of pornography on a "man who is already prone to violence against women." Borrowing from anti-porn activist Catharine MacKinnon, Schlafly wrote, "Pornography really should be defined as the active subordination of women...
That may seem like common sense to people disgusted with what they regard as gratuitous sex and violence in the media, or the promulgation of "bad attitudes;" the notion that speech must have redeeming social value in order to be protected is enshrined in the Supreme Court's definition of obscenity and reflected in demands to regulate popular entertainment. But civil libertarianism, which, I admit, many consider the opposite of common sense, reflects a belief that speech has not just instrumental but normative value, as an academic might say: In other words, we have not just a constitutional right...
...guess there will have to be compromises: part-time schedules for either me or my husband when the children are young, jobs that allow flexibility in hours and in career tracks. But I'm still chagrined by that notion, because no one ever told me when I was young that there would be compromises. As I grew up, the "superwoman" notion was alive and well in my mind...