Word: combatting
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...another's throats, or waving knives at one another's private parts, admirably fuse the dimensions of the intimate and the world-historical. Journalists and essayists have to make a living; men and women leading peaceful, productive lives with one another have to be dragged somehow into the combat. Accordingly: "You hear what she said about you? . . . You hear what he just did? Ain't he awful? Damn, she's awful! Let's you and her fight...
...higher frequencies. Men feel insulted. Women detect fresh assaults. The men-are-awful period has been going on for a while. There are signs now that the oh-yeah-well-women-are-pretty-disgusting- too stage is upon us. For men and women, this is mostly a lose-lose combat. But it is entertaining for the crowds in the Colosseum...
Feminism's stated goal of real equality between the sexes will begin to be credible when females are required to register for the draft at 18, as males are, when 50% of combat units must be women -- in short, when women are paying 50% of the real price, not only in war but also in society's other sacrificial exercises...
Mayor Kenneth E. Reeves '72 linked the Haitians' struggles for equality in Cambridge to their efforts to combat political oppression in Haiti...
Those who embrace Lorena Bobbitt as a heroine are doing a disservice to efforts to combat violence against women. It is possible to recognize her as a victim of marital abuse without condoning her actions. What needs to be understood from this tragedy is the fact that many women who are in abusive relationships often do not realize the steps they can legally take to free themselves from their desperate situations...