Word: posterity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some feminists would argue that this distinction of spheres is convenient on theoretical grounds but that it breaks down in practice. They argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perception of all women. They are wrong. Normal, sane men are not confused by their experiences with poster girls, seedy restaurants or gentlemen's magazines. Their enjoyment of such diversions does not render them incapable of healthy, respectful relationships with the opposite sex. Nor do the pathological among us receive their decisive nudge into misogyny from such sources...
When I stare up from my desk, I don't want to see any printed reproduction of Picasso, nor do I wish to encounter the name of some technical director at the bottom of a movie poster. When I take a hard-earned study break, I like to be greeted by a pretty face. And ladies, if any of you have a fetish for bespectacled Jewish boys, I'd be happy to pose...
While walking through the Yard today I saw a poster that made me despair about the state of race relations at our fine institution. It read: "49 percent: The number of white males who believe that Harvard's Faculty is 'diverse enough...
...makes me truly sad to see a poster which seems to have no other purpose than to portray me, being a white male, as an ignorant, bigoted, racist. We're all on the same team here. I realize race relations have been adversarial in the past, but the solution is not to direct society's animosity toward a different faction of the population. All of our efforts to create a society truly free from racism are for nought as long as this adversarial system of race relations persists. GREGORY S. NOVAK '00 March...
...stall, we found written on a poster about fat hatred: "To ECHO--I don't think this sign helps. It only reminds the overly-weight conscious of how much the world does care about how s/he looks." Someone responded, "Do you mean to say that in your opinion our culture does not have weight issues?" Not everyone agreed, but we were still successful: dialogue began and that was our goal. As someone responding to the same poster so aptly put it: "Self-awareness is always a good thing...