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...independence, of sorts, from an overbearing lover. "Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy," she sings, "but you're not going to stop me/ from having fun." In Loom DiFranco again unleashes kinetic guitar riffs. And again the theme is intrusive love: "You are the one-way glass/ that watches me/ standing at the bank...
Much has already been made about the manner of sex described on the tapes. Not to put too fine a point on it, it is strictly one-way, designed for the maximum pleasure of the recipient. The pleasure of the giver is incidental. The act itself summarizes the relationship, as the tapes reveal it: someone is the supplicant, and it's not the President. Those of us unlucky enough to remember the late 1960s and early 1970s--before Monica Lewinsky was born--recall the radical-feminist critique of sex as purely a matter of power and exploitation. Under some circumstances...
...willing to make an effort and pursue you, but we do not want to replace you as the sole hunters. Yes, Harvard Women are amazing, and watching them at work is impressive. But you men are not incapable; you too can ask one of us to a movie or to coffee. Reciprocity is superior to a one-way system...
...China's vice minister of foreign trade, Sun Zhenyu, said the highly-publicized trade mission would be undertaken "so that the U.S. people can understand that this relationship is indeed very important, and it is not a one-way relationship." No doubt the U.S. people will also understand the growing spending power of Asia's largest economy...
...York Civil Liberties Union and other civil rights groups oppose the Young Women's Leadership School because it discriminates against boys; young men who deserve the same opportunities as these girls. Although Congress drafted Title IX in response to decades of bias against women, sexual discrimination is not a one-way street. Inner-city girls might learn more in the school's singlesex environment, but society cannot sanction any kind of discrimination. Civil rights laws, arbitrarily enforced, lose all moral standing...