Word: roles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were never designed to win over the underdeveloped countries--a few words from Moynihan would hardly send them scurrying except in the expectations of a lunatic, to sing the praises of General Motors plants, World Bank investment, and the federal system of government. Moynihan was Kissinger's Agnew: his role was to make it seem like America was all but isolated in the world--two dozen "democracies" defending "civilization," as he put it, against the hordes--and that we had better pull together again to avoid the rule of the all-powerful and violent slave State, embodied in a waxing...
...with such things as competing professionally with a spouse, having children out of wedlock, adopting children into a lesbian household, or relying on masochistic fantasies for sexual arousal. Each example provides a pivot for her own condemnation of the tyranny of stereotypical yet pervasive forms of morality and feminine role-playing...
...still particularly inappropriate for women to chase after sexual experience A woman is supposed to let sex sort of happen to her. Traditionally, she's not supposed to want to make sex; nor, as a wife, is the woman traditionally allowed to make money. In her domestic role she is supposed to provide sexual services, among others. Chesler and Goodman note the stigma that results when the married woman's usual duties are connected with money--both the prostitue and the maid are commonly labeled low-class creatures. In a pretty devious way, a predominant feminine image turns...
According to Chesler and Goodman, "Touching' is one way of signifying power: economic power in general and sexual power, the droit du seigneur." While this may sound overly ominous, men, whether they like the role of aggressor or not, seem to touch more readily. The boss can wrap a paternal arm around a female's shoulder without seeming too forward. If she returned the gesture, the scene would become an embarrassment or a joke; only by this reversal would its essential presumptuousness or plain silliness come out. A woman who acts this way might be tagged a flirt--a demeaning...
...political self-determination. The full implications of this policy were seen in the fifteen years of war in Southeast Asia where the armed forces conducted a campaign of terror and murder against the Indochinese people. The aggression of the Marines against Cambodia in the Mayaguez incident suggests that the role of the military has not changed. Whenever American policy makers feel the need to combat national liberation movements, the military will be there...