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...want to convince you that you should listen to classical music. Not because classical music is intrinsically superior to all other forms of musical expression, not because it is more serious or more profound and not because it is your duty, if you wish to become an educated citizen of the world, to acquire a smattering of "culture". It is probably because of people telling you things like that that you have never wanted to listen to classical music in the first place. They are the same ones who insist that you be able to rattle off composers and titles...
With respect for Ignatiev's right to express his views on whatever subject he may wish, I cannot feel comfortable as a kosher-observant student of Dunster House talking to or seeking academic advice from a tutor who has reacted with insensitivity and intolerance toward my special dietary needs, religiously grounded or otherwise...
...myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is," wrote Rebecca West in 1913. "I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat, or a prostitute." Decades later, for millions of American women the label remains slippery. During the feminist revolution of the 1970s, it was understood as an effort to secure for women the economic, political and social rights and protections that men have always enjoyed. It was about opening doors, not shoving women through them...
...women to take a new look at the messages they absorb, messages that act as barriers to understanding or to justice. But it is also appropriate to argue, as founding feminist Betty Friedan does, that feminism also needs to "transcend sexual politics and anger against men to express a new vision of family and community. We must go from wallowing in the victim's state to mobilizing the new power of women and men for a larger political agenda on the priorities of life. We need to confront the polarization. We're at a dangerous time." Such conciliatory rhetoric...
...they Very Concerned Christians, therefore want to express our concern and compassion for the members of the Concerned Christians...