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...certainly proves that. Few authors I know can be so subversively ironic: your critique of feminism as a cult of professional victimhood is hilarious when juxtaposed with your constant complaints of being victimized by feminists everywhere! And your claim that date-rape hysteria infantalizes women and turns them into powerless waifs is so funny in light of you mocking and belittling those little women so relentlessly...
Peter knows the show is a sad commentary on the state of today's teenager. But the Beavis Generation is beyond expressing sentiment. It's powerless to do anything but laugh at itself...
...member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unlikely, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts- filled weekend. Overseer John LIthgow '67 went a long way toward changing that image of effectiveness. ARTSFirst shows that overseers can, if they choose, get invovled and make a difference. We wish more of them would follow Lithgow's example...
Mark Blitz of the Hudson Institute, an Indianapolis-based think-tank, argues that the persistence of conspiracy theories reflects a collective sense of impotency -- people feeling powerless before blind forces they cannot control. In its most benign form, this near paranoia confines itself to Elvis spotting. At worst it leads to convictions that the Jews -- or reactionary capitalists, or unreconstructed communists -- secretly control the world...
...member Board of Overseers is often criticized as an unwieldy, powerless body that can have little practical effect on the lives of students or the success of the institution. By inspiring and helping to plan one frenzied, arts-filled weekend, Overseer John Lithgow '67 went a long way toward changing that image of ineffectiveness. ARTSFirst shows that overseers can, if they choose, get involved and make a difference. We wish more of them would follow Lithgow's example...