Word: offendable
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Parker and the Quincy F crew have not spoken since the initial e-mail. “We were going to address him, but then we thought, why offend anyone? Everyone is entitled to their opinions,” Kim says...
...just want to say in the strongest possible terms that such acts of racism, of religious discrimination, of stereotyping directed at particular individuals offend every value for which the University community stands,” Summers said. “We need to have zero-tolerance for intolerance...
Dworkin’s prose, like her oratory, is ruthless and uncompromising, driven by an incantatory rhythm. Her anger is untempered, measureless and directed equally at every target. But in a culture where feminists are frequently apologetic in their haste not to offend or be branded man-haters, Dworkin’s defiant stance, however divisive, is nothing if not courageous...
...course, tourists at Harvard get lost as much as tourists at Disney do. I often find myself approaching confused visitors in the Yard, armed with a two-finger point in the right direction (so as not to offend those of a foreign culture) and the Vaseline smile I learned while working at Disney. Crimson Key members, with their syrupy pleasantness, would fit in quite well at Disney. Clad in their bright red frocks for Freshman Week, the Crimson Key are as unmistakable as an army of Brazilian tourists in matching fluorescent yellow t-shirts marching through Disney, their leader bouncing...
...they are, they’re not very good,’” Keret explained as he poked at his mostly uneaten slice of pecan pie (“it doesn’t taste very good,” he said softly so as not to offend the waitress, whom we still tipped generously...