Word: hug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from other parents of severely handicapped children urging that the Kelsos not be judged too harshly. Steven is medically stable, says hospital spokeswoman Terri Greenley, "but we'll keep him here to make sure he gets whatever he needs, whether it's medical care or a smile and a hug...
...world goes his way, Bezos could become even richer than his neighbor Bill Gates. Then what? "At some point," he says, giving MacKenzie a hug as the two of them stand around in the kitchen, "we want to figure out how to do philanthropic work that's highly leveraged. It's very easy to give away money ineffectively. But doing it well requires at least as much attention and energy as building a successful company...
...Relegating the needs of these women to "more meeting space and an occasional hug," as Oppenheim does, reveals the pervasive ways in which women's status continues to be demeaned and their experiences trivialized. Moreover, while the glorious call for equal opportunity and non-discrimination sounds pleasant to the ears, it ignores the methods in which inequality is initially constructed. "Equal opportunity" and "non-discrimination" hence become ways to mask and then perpetuate the unequal conditions that exist...
...Oppenheim's article foolishly caricatures "women's issues" as illusory concoctions of overzealous activists. The next time I see a girl who was sexually assaulted, I'll remember to give her that "occasional hug," ask her if she's got a meeting place for a bit of that "emotional support" and tell her that being raped has nothing to do with her gender. After all, somebody needs to give these unfairly protected people that good old-fashioned reality check...
...function effectively, have to limit their membership. The overwhelming majority of undergraduate women are not complaining of any rampant discrimination by Harvard. Sexual assault is a matter of public safety, not gender politics. The non-discrimination sword cuts both ways. We all need more meeting space and an occasional hug...