Word: feeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mock you. You should feel guilty, embarrassed...
...exhorts us to "Be All That We Can Be," they don't want us to be lesbians or bisexuals. Members of a sexual minority who are out of the closet and proud would not pose a security risk, but we are still barred from serving our country if we feel a duty to do this through the military. This is because the military plays on homophobia and pejorative stereotypes of gays in its dehumanizing process. The terror of being perceived as homosexual is used to scapegoat weaker members of a unit and to build esprit de corps in the rest...
...People who've never gotten involved, who've never picked up a sign, are getting involved," says Hillis. "For the first time, students feel like their rights are being taken away...
...really like the lectures," I heard one student say. "They make me feel guilty." Lectures do seem designed to produce guilt. This sense of guilt is not productive or constructive, the kind that sparks a re-examination of societal structures and behavior. This guilt is self-complacent, rooted in the fact that we Harvard students were born privileged and "those people" weren't. And that's as far as social reflection goes...
...hate football, how can that be? You must feel some sympathy for those who "hurl that spheroid down the field, boys, and Fight! Fight! Fight!" The sudden violent collision, the one-handed catch, the perfectly-placed punt--all these are possessing of sublime beauty. These graces of football represent the acme of 6000 years of developing civilization...