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... Heterosexuality doesn't appear in Diagram 3.1 because it's assumed in PUD . An individual is assumed to be heterosexual unless proven otherwise ; the assumption of heterosexuality is so strong that it overrides all contradic- tory ...
... Heterosexuality doesn't appear in Diagram 3.1 because it's assumed in PUD . An individual is assumed to be heterosexual unless proven otherwise ; the assumption of heterosexuality is so strong that it overrides all contradic- tory ...
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... heterosexuals do to each other . Until 1897 , the word lesbian , in contrast , referred only to an inhabitant of ... heterosexual . Naming the deviance from that assumption brought it into conceptual contrast ; if it was going to be ...
... heterosexuals do to each other . Until 1897 , the word lesbian , in contrast , referred only to an inhabitant of ... heterosexual . Naming the deviance from that assumption brought it into conceptual contrast ; if it was going to be ...
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... heterosexual is inferior to them , but , realizing how their language can betray them , choose to scrupu- lously avoid racist words and phrases . The fact that someone doesn't use the word nigger or the word black to mean ' evil ' or ...
... heterosexual is inferior to them , but , realizing how their language can betray them , choose to scrupu- lously avoid racist words and phrases . The fact that someone doesn't use the word nigger or the word black to mean ' evil ' or ...
Contents
The Glamour of Grammar | 1 |
Language Is a Woman | 16 |
self | 19 |
Copyright | |
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