Word: voicelessness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...William Bennett and cultural critic Allan Bloom '56, chargins that they "symbolize for us the nostalgic return to what I think of as the 'antebellum aesthetic position,' when men were men, and men were white, when scholar-critics were white men, and when women and persons of color were voiceless, faceless servants,...filling brandy snifters in the boardrooms of old boy's clubs...
...sexual encounter in Vox is the very opposite of another contemporary landmark of literary eroticism, the zipless sex of the '70s. Erica Jong's cheesy fiction offered a New Age pardon for the grunting libido of genital-to- genital sex. Zipless meant voiceless. Vox, by contrast, is the ultimate in '90s safe sex: voices, not hands, caress each other as Baker teases out a rambling romp of a conversation followed by simultaneous masturbatory climaxes between partners thousands of miles away...
...healthy enough and aren't brave enough to learn to survive in a capitalist world. One day, perhaps in 20 years, the transition to capitalism will have made the Soviet UnUnion a healthier and wealthier place than it ever was under Communism. But that is cold comfort for the voiceless people...
Inspired by the plight of his people, he said, he decided to become "the voice of the voiceless, an unofficial spokesman of my people...
Images of women in advertising are no less problematic. Pictures of scantily clad women next to political articles in the New York Times contrast intellectual discourse with the image of women as voiceless, passive objects...