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The Blame Game
The Blame Game We don’t start life with a clean slate. Childhood is the time we spend figuring out what kind of a hand of cards we’ve been dealt and how to start playing it. What happens to us – … Continue reading
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Tagged appeals to fairness, black leotard, blaming the victim, cartoon, cat calls, childhood, civil rights movement, class bias, clean slate, contradictions in capitalism, coquetry, cultural bias, despising women, documentary film, dodging blame, end of class struggle, end of history, enemy of the people, exploiting women, feminist movement, film footage, gayborhood, going viral, group identity, group preferences, guillotine, hand-to-hand combat, hanging out, hitch-hiking, idealizing women, indignant outcry, intersectionality, involuntary pregnancy, Les Tricoteuses, lynch mob, Manhattan, mob rule, moral rank, Neo-Marxism, New York City, off-Broadway comedy, people of color, persecution of feminists, protecting identity, racist film, reality TV, Reign of Terror, Robespierre, romantic truth, safe space, second wave feminism, self-defense, skin in the game, social asymmetry, social conscience, social experiment, social identity, social inequality, strategy for women, street mores, street people, tabula rasa, the blame game, the dance of life, the game of life, the hand we're dealt, the internationale, the knitting women, the male animal, the oppressed, the weaker sex, the wretched of the earth, thought police, victim competition, victims status, white people, wolf whistles, women as losers, women asking for it, women's rights, women's vulnerability, working class solidarity
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Political Correctness and Sex Appeal
Political Correctness and Sex Appeal These would seem to be unrelated topics. But not in my world. First, about this Political Correctness mania. It is starting to act like a cumulonimbus cloud, soaked in its own heavy humidity, making us … Continue reading
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Tagged "A Tale of Two Cities", "Absolute Freedom and Terror", appeasement, argument, bullies, Charles Dickens, city kids, city life, dating game, dialogue, enemy of the people, erotic strategies, Estates General 1789, feminine strategy, French Revolution, G.W.F. Hegel, guillotine, guilt trips, identity, influence, Jean Jacques Rousseau, losers, Manhattan, manipulation, monologue, national action committee, National Assembly, PC, political correctness, political policy, politics of ideas, radicalism, radicals, religious identity, Rousseau's "The Social Contract", sex appeal, sexual losers, status, temple membership, the "general will", The Left, The Phenomenology of Mind, thought control, thought police, wallflowers, winning arguments
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