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...don’t, you’ll probably just end up showing off an ugly side of yourself that is a little too interested in parsing people into gay and straight, white and not-white. That’s the tendency that the Bad People find so repulsive??what they implicitly assume is contained in all humor that hints at homophobia, racism, sexism, genderism, etc. When they find it where it really exists, though, far be it for a clownish little faggot like me to defend the jokester...

Author: By Ben Kawaller | Title: The Era of PoHoMoPho | 3/7/2007 | See Source »

...material world. He takes immense pleasure in the shape, texture, taste, smell and mere existence of things. Nowhere is Fo more at home than in his exuberant account of the physical world. So deep is his love for all things physical that the idea of property seems repulsive??simply to experience the world should be joy enough...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: 'Johan Padan' Cuts with Wit even as Festival Cut Short | 9/20/2001 | See Source »

...initially appears as if the filmmakers have missed the point of Bridget Jones in making her a tad too tubby. After all, in the novel, at an average of 124 pounds, Bridget is decidedly not overweight—she merely obsesses about feeling “ashamed and repulsive?? and as if she “actually feels the fat splurging out from my body” when there is clearly no reason for it. However, it is exactly her appearance that makes her more endearing—she gives Bridget a warm glow that makes it absolutely...

Author: By Michelle Kung, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sex and the Single Girl | 4/13/2001 | See Source »

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