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...ideal facts about human behavior, like prejudice and sexual aggression. According to this system of belief, only rational beings are morally worthy and deserving of respect. An idealistic enterprise like political correctness therefore refuses to compromise with reality or to stop proselytizing until every trace of irrational prejudice--esp. racial, sexual, and homophobic--is eradicated. Idealism leads to the desire to make real people into ideal people, no matter what the costs...
...most impressive scoring display came at 16:18, when sophomore Brad Konik--either aided by ESP or a newly-sprouted set of eyes on the back of his head--made a mind-boggling, no-look pass to a streaking Drury...
Straining even more to avoid giving offense, except to good usage, the < dictionary offers comfort to very short people (though not very tall ones) with heightism ("discrimination or prejudice based on a person's stature, esp. discrimination against short people"); and to very fat people (but not very thin ones) with weightism ("bias or discrimination against people who are overweight"). Omitted, fortunately, are such high-fad content terms as lookism (bias against people because of their appearance), ableism (bias against the handicapped) or differently abled (alternative to handicapped...
Call it luck. Call it ESP. Call it residual effects from Quadlines. I have a radar for corned beef...
...studio apartment is carpeted. She probably has horrible rug burns. And she has unbearably tacky ballet posters hanging in her apartment that she has to look at every day. She has painfully boring sex with both her lovers. And she clearly lives with the psychological stress of having ESP--she always reaches to answer the phone before it actually rings...