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> What is "visual rape"? Well, usually it's a minor offense like
> ogling or peeping. But the word "rape" is put in there to make
> looking at women sound like a deadly felony. "Cultural genocide"
> and "violence of the tongue" are other examples of this verbal
> trick. What follows is a brief PC-to-English dictionary of such
> terms.
>
> � INTELLECTUAL HARASSMENT. Criticism, disagreement. The gravest
> version is "anti-feminist intellectual harassment." University of
> Arizona professor Annette Kolodny says this "serious threat to
> academic freedom" occurs when any statement or behavior has the
> intent or effect of devaluing (feminist) ideas about women.
>
> � NONTRADITIONAL VIOLENCE. Criticism, disagreement (see
> intellectual harassment). Lani Guinier says she became a victim
> of nontraditional violence when the media attacked her and her
> novel plans for racial voting in 1993. Husbands who argue with
> wives are behaving in a nontraditionally domestically violent
> manner.
>
> � NONTRADITIONAL MAN. A blue-collar male selected as a sex
> partner by an upper-middle-class feminist. "Women can choose what
> I call nontraditional men," says author Sara Davidson. "My new
> agent has a romance with a carpenter. Roseanne married her
> bodyguard." (Note: Though exotic to Davidson, these working men
> are considered quite traditional by their wives, neighbors and
> friends.)
>
> � MENTAL RAPE, EMOTIONAL RAPE. Paula Jones said Bill Clinton's
> unzipped behavior was "almost like a mental rape." Monica
> Lewinsksy said she felt emotionally raped by Kenneth Starr.
>
> � SYMBOLIC AND LOW-TECH GANG RAPE. Feminist Catherine Stimpson's
> term for Anita Hill's treatment by the Senate Judiciary
> Committee. A rebuttal to Clarence Thomas' "high-tech lynching" (a
> nontechnical nonlynching).
>
> � RETINAL CHAUVINISM. Flashy Internet graphics that totally
> disregard the visually impaired. "Web design is primarily driven
> by retinal chauvinists," said Jerry Kuns, a blind sales
> representative who lives in San Francisco. "Pictures are great,
> but they are stumbling blocks to me."
>
> � ECONOMIC VIOLENCE. Jesse Jackson's term for abrupt plant
> closings, foreclosures and other economic dislocations.
>
> � ECONOMIC CENSORSHIP. A familiar complaint by artists, meaning,
> "Nobody is buying my work." Closely related to "censorship by
> omission," which means, "Why am I never on TV? Why am I never
> invited to big parties?"
>
> � ENVIRONMENTAL RACISM. A racialized version of NIMBY. No
> neighborhood wants a dump or a smokestack in its back yard, but
> minority neighborhoods have another option to exercise: They can
> challenge a proposed site as racially unfair.
>
> � INTELLECTUAL GENOCIDE. An emphatic but vague way of complaining
> about low-performing schools. "Public school students in
> Washington are being subjected to a particularly insidious brand
> of intellectual genocide" --Washington Post columnist Courtland
> Milloy.
>
> � EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE, BODILY INTELLIGENCE. Harvard's Howard
> Gardner, who thought up the theory of multiple intelligences, was
> criticized by people who considered them merely talents. He
> explained: "If I had called them talents, no one would have paid
> any attention." So now everybody is smart in some way, even those
> who can't read or write. And it's no longer true that some
> athletes are as dumb as doorknobs. If they're jocks, they can't
> be dumb -- they have bodily intelligence.
>
> � SEMANTIC VIOLENCE. Oddball Northwestern University teacher
> Regina Schwartz says the biblical covenant between God and the
> Israelites committed semantic violence by cutting the Israelites
> off from any sense of common humanity with other peoples.
> Schwartz thinks that religions with only one god induce violent
> behavior.
>
> � (NONVIOLENT) ETHNOVIOLENCE. The term ethnoviolence, made up by
> Howard J. Ehrlich of the Prejudice Institute, takes the concept
> of ethnic violence and stretches it to cover any perceived
> insensitivity, thus inflating statistics and creating the
> impression of a runaway epidemic of bias and hate. The institute
> offered these two horrible examples from the Massachusetts
> Institute of Technology: (1) "At times professors would ask me to
> drop a course when I didn't think it was appropriate," and (2)
> When calling on black students in class, one professor asked
> embarrassingly easy questions.
>
> � SYMBOLIC HATE CRIMES. Noncriminal incidents with doubtful
> connections to hate or bias. At Swarthmore College, an uproar
> occurred when a turd was discovered on a table in the Third World
> Center. Outraged critics didn't miss a beat when the offending
> turd turned out to be chocolate cake, arguing that the cake at
> least "had the symbolic effect of a hate crime." This proves that
> baked goods can be hate speech if you think about them hard
> enough.
>
> COPYRIGHT 1999 JOHN LEO
>From www.uexpress.com
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