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...acting like a man. I’m acting like an asshole. I’m rude, ungrateful, demanding, misogynistic and sullen. I know that my version of masculinity relies on an unflattering stereotype and that not all men are assholes, but to pass effectively, I feel like I have to exaggerate whatever traditionally “male” characteristics...
Free speech can sometimes be rude, crude and offensive, but it is still protected because public debate is essential to ensure the health of American democracy. In a nation that values the political pluralism of its citizens, youth must be encouraged to speak out at home and at school as early and as often as they are encouraged to vote. Only then will America’s public high schools graduate their students into the real world prepared for adult citizenship...
...protestors’ behavior—which allegedly included shouting over Bush and making lewd gestures—was deemed “not consistent with the traditional Tufts courtesy” by Alumni Association officials. On the basis of the protest and the accusation that she made a rude gesture towards former President Bush, Monnin’s not-yet-awarded award was pre-emptively revoked...
...that leaders, trailblazers, must adhere to the finest points of social politesse in their quests for justice and truth—would be laughable were it not so suffocating. In fact, a certain challenge to received wisdom, a commitment to doing that which the establishment rejects as rude, is inherent in the leadership that the Tufts Alumni Association purports to recognize...
...have threatened their viability as unregulated forums. That moderators in Eliot briefly shut-down Eliot-list after a student complained over the use of the word “slut,” for example, signals the possibility for greater regulation of lists to prevent what some deem as rude, threatening or insensitive posts...