Word: rationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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In all seriousness, I do have a great deal of sympathy for the queer community's mission. As far as I am concerned, any rational heterosexual should. Queer rights are a basic question of human rights. But for me and many others, friction with the queer community arises not over...
Or maybe, the sexual liberation of society has already proceeded so quickly in other regards--given how fast attitudes have changed with respect to premarital sex and women's sexuality--that many people simply feel they are not yet ready to understand and accept a culture informed by queerness. Perhaps...
Why limit yourself to race? Football players are stupid, and men are more rational than women.
The assumptions behind this article go beyond simple word choice to present a distinct worldview. The account places the Yanomamo squarely into an evolutionary view of human societies with "Stone Age tribes" at one end and Euro-American high culture at the other. This is the same worldview that contrasts...
In his article "In Defense of Hooters and the St. Pauli Girl" (March 13), Noah Oppenheim suggests that what he freely admits to be an 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...