Word: sexualizing
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...person who owns and has nearly absolute power over the other. Hemings might have been able to speak French, Italian and Spanish like a native, but enslaved, she remained nothing more than chattel. Regardless of the many years these two might have spent together, their "long emotional and sexual engagement," as Wilentz puts it, can only be reduced to a master forcing a slave to do what she knew she must do to survive for 30 years...
...power which allowed the affair to go on for so many years. It was power which left Hemings' manumission uncertain. Hemings could have had absolutely no agency in such an arrangement, as no slave in a situation with a white master ever had. Numerous masters engaged in sexual activity with their slaves, threatening that they would be sold or worse if they did not comply. Why do we assume Jefferson should have been any different...
...painful example of the sexism that exists in our society. Young women (consistently referred to as "girls") who have made the intelligent, informed decision to attend an all-female college are portrayed as desperate to catch men (never called "boys"), and willing to trade sexual favors for any sort of recognition. The "girls" depicted clearly have little sense of their self-worth except in relation to men, and feel that wearing revealing clothing and having indiscriminate sex are the ways to succeed in life...
Politics or not, hate crimes or not, the practice of homosexuality anywhere outrages right-thinking people everywhere. The sooner homosexuals come to terms with the unchangeable fact that God unequivocally disapproves of their sexual conduct and those who applaud such behavior, the sooner they will turn away from their vile degeneracy. JOHN QUINCY MITCHELL La Verne, Calif...
VADIM FILIMONOV, a 67-year-old former law professor, is the head of the commission of the Duma that is seeing whether grounds exist to launch an impeachment process against BORIS YELTSIN. Yeltsin's alleged misdeeds are far graver than sexual misconduct: he stands accused of causing the collapse of the U.S.S.R., organizing the assault on the parliament in October 1993 and instigating the war in Chechnya, among other offenses. So far, none of the star witnesses--Yeltsin and other Kremlin bosses--have shown up to testify, something Filimonov blames on his lack of subpoena power. Still, the committee...