Word: rigidities
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...such rigid stupidity is representative of the mentality running that church, then God help...
...ENEMY. Never mind all those smooth-talking partisans of "men's liberation" joyously chanting "Oppressors, arise and recognize your own oppression!," fresh from their discovery that men as well as women suffer from rigid sexual stereotyping. No use trying to pin the blame on some anonymous entity called "the system" which makes both sexes squirm unhappily--not even if the system turns to be none other than that ogre capitalism. After all, Marxist theory may say one thing, but in practice socialist countries still uphold the nuclear family and discriminate against women. Every man--socialist or capitalist--is a sexist...
...certain skepticism towards Marxists and men notwithstanding, the editors of the Sourcebook, Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie, claim to be proponents of what they call "militant pluralism". Consciously eschewing a rigid political stance, Grimstad and Rennie argue that the movement's very strength lies in its ott-bemoaned diversity (to some, incoherence), since "dogmatism and 'correct line' politics are usually the sign of weakness in a political movement." In keeping with this pluralistic approach, the Sourcebook has kind words for groups ranging from the reformist NOW, which seeks the best possible deal for women within the system, to the escapist...
Much of the blame for bureaucratic slackness rests with the public-service unions whose rigid rules impair productivity. It takes yards of red tape and constant bickering to shift anyone to another department or category. Only by sweetening fringe benefits three years ago could the city persuade the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association to allow more men to be put on the streets during the high-crime shift from 4 p.m. to midnight...
...came, it was indefinable: hundreds of thousands of young men existing like stupefied moles in the badly shored-up gutters of mud and decaying flesh that zigzagged their way across France, driven toward the machine guns of Poperinghe or the Butte de Warlincourt by the abstract decisions of rigid or incompetent staff officers. At 7:30 a.m. on July 1, 1916, 110,000 English and Australian troops started walking toward the rusty thickets of German barbed wire along the Somme valley; a few hours later, 60,000 of them were dead or wounded, and the cries of abandoned men were...