Word: scorned
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Imus’s words hurt because they cut to the heart of what these women do, who they are, and what their accomplishments symbolize. Public outrage points more broadly to the scorn female athletes frequently receive from men and women alike for their “gross, big muscles” which make them “look butch and manly,” as one critic in college once remarked to me of my rowing teammates. Women athletes are still often evaluated by 19th century standards of femininity and fragility, rather than on the basis of their achievements...
...course the most surprising and disappointing aspect of the situation is that few groups of people have suffered through more racism, scorn, and exclusion than the Cherokee themselves. To marginalize the freedmen, much less vote them out, reveals deep hypocrisy in a nation that prides itself on cultural memory...
...Gilles. "Sabatot is the biggest problem for us today. Lots of people just feel overrun, fed up or both." As if in reply, Morit (who would give only his first name), an 18-year-old first-generation Saint-Gilles citizen of Moroccan descent, says, "We feel the racism and scorn everywhere...
...Hollywood and America’s entertainment industry, more recently began a hearing on digital piracy in the world of higher education. Berman inveighed against universities, suggesting they “have turned a blind eye to piracy.” Whether or not the objects of his scorn are actively supporting copyright violations, it is more than slightly disingenuous to suggest that colleges and universities account for all, or even most, of the digital piracy of music. It is a problem that occurs at every level of society and in every contingent of the listening community. Berman?...
...thedark days of 1997 when he took command of financially strapped Air France, charged with pulling the airline out of a tailspin of labor unrest and a half-decade of losses. A growing number of French customers, long accustomed to work stoppages, viewed the airline with distrust and scorn. "When people start looking at their own flag carrier as unreliable, you've really got a problem," says Spinetta...