Word: posterized
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...students because who in their right mind was going to study Chinese when they grew up in Iowa. I had never even eaten Chinese food, I had never even thought about China until I was 18 years old and ended up in Iowa City, and I saw a poster saying critical language studies. Of course in those days, and this was the early 60s "critical languages" was a euphemism for "enemy language." They were advertising fellowships for Chinese, Russian and Serbo-Croatian. It was pretty apparent what they had in mind...
...WIRE) NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J.--In a land that prides itself on the freedom that rings from every hilltop, the first amendment rights of University Republicans have been violated. The group used an offensive poster to promote a discussion on feminism, in which they invited all "Feminazis" to attend. The majority of these advertisements were ripped off the bulletin boards by outraged students who resented the Republicans' word choice, leaving freedom of speech a debatable issue rather than a Constitutional right...
...published was a file photo, but common courtesy dictates that a person should be notified before her face is plastered next to an article with such questionable and potentially offensive content. The decent thing would have been to let me know beforehand about my impending status as the new poster child for the Asian fetish...
...objectification of women by chains such as Hooters and magazines such as Playboy have no impact on male-female relations. He states: "[Some feminists] argue that exposure to sexual objectification distorts men's perceptions of all women. They are wrong." His argument is that rational men distinguish between the poster of a naked woman and the women they meet in daily life. It is remarkable that Oppenheim, in his 1,000-word article, has managed to solve a problem that feminist theory has been grappling with for decades. It is unrealistic to suggest that what we encounter in our daily...
...believes himself able to view women as individuals in his daily encounters. No doubt his female friends would agree. However, it is disturbing that his defense of "sexual objectification" culminates in this sentence: "Idealizations are a fiction, and those who confuse fiction with reality have bigger problems that the posters on their walls." Oppenheim feels that if men don't treat real women as they would a poster, then there isn't a problem. But his use of the word "idealization" to describe a poster of a body that has no connection to an individual betrays deeper truths about...