Word: powerlessly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, what good is served by encouraging the University to stifle access. If pornography is worthless as speech, students will find it so. If its ideas are merely unpopular, then perhaps they need even greater protection than other forms of speech. Censors silence not mainstream ideas but those of powerless minorities...
Roiphe's main thesis is that many contemporary feminists actually undermine their own cause of women's liberation with alarmist proclamations of a "date rape crisis." Their exaggeration of the incidence of date rape reinforces old stereotypes of women as victims, powerless before male aggression. These are the same stereotypes which feminists of the past, including Roiphe's own mother, struggled to eliminate...
...political points. And, as was the case on health-care and campaign-finance reform, the President's own party helped derail its leader's program: more than 75 Democrats refused to support GATT, and 50 more were wavering. One Democratic congressional aide watching the votes erode marveled at how powerless the Clinton White House was to stop it. "They are," he said, "uniquely capable of losing the unlosable...
...definition of rape was made so broad, Roiphe said, that it made women seem powerless to communicate whether they want to have sex. It also stereotyped women as innocent and pure, and men as lascivious "beasts," she said...
...advent of AIDS demolished that thinking. The sight of tens of thousands of young people wasting away from a virus that no one had known about and no one knew how to fight was a sobering experience -- especially when drugs proved powerless to stop the virus and efforts to develop a vaccine proved extraordinarily difficult. Faced with AIDS, and with an ever increasing number of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, doctors were forced to admit that the medical profession was actually retreating in the battle against germs...