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...benefits: though just 9% of companies offer child care at or near work, an additional 12% are planning to do so. Even business lingo is getting sensitized: "family-friendly" policies--benefits that help working parents find time for soccer games--often become "lifestyle-friendly" policies so as not to offend single folks...
Before one critical word is written about comedian and television personality Jon Stewart's book Naked Pictures of Famous People, it must be noted that one of the stories in the book is entitled "Martha Stewart's Vagina." How do you feel about that? Does it offend you? Does it make you laugh? Should you even care...
...know how defensive I sound, and that brings me to my main point: Fetishism is a problem. A superficial preference for black males or Asian females or any other group grounded in stereotypes can and does offend deeply. Such a racial ranking of desirable (mostly sexual) partners represents ignorance of the basest kind...
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...Religious leaders] will recognize that this encourages humans to actively value one form of human life over another, and this should offend against the ethical missions of these faiths," he says...