Word: mistreat
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Other rogue therapists mistreat gender-variant children by trying to force them to conform to gender rules. They use blunt behavior-modification techniques such as rewarding tomboys for wearing frilly dresses or punishing effeminate boys for playing with a Barbie. "Many of those kids become runaways, and they are damaged for life," says Gender PAC's Riki Anne Wilchins...
...forum for soundbites expands and the forum for epics shrinks, our ability to address--much less resolve--inconsistencies between the soundbites also disappears. Students say sweatshops mistreat the workers, companies say they don't--how is this meaningful without further information? If students provide more information and the factories refuse to reciprocate--effectively refusing to fight the war on anything but a soundbite level--how can we fail to recognize this itself as the problem...
...some point the outraged members of APALSA will come to realize that thankfully, for most of the world, their racial identity is not their defining characteristic. If Temple Bar did mistreat them last week it was probably not because they were Asian. More likely, the hostess saw a group of pompous Harvard Law students and decided, perhaps with a touch of malice, to keep them waiting. Who can blame...