According to the letter's signatories the allegations are creating a new "puritanism".
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Social transformation requires Saudi Arabia, in particular, to grapple with Islamic ultra-puritanism.
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But the party's puritanism is at odds with the tastes of young Chinese.
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He had a streak of Puritanism to him that his crew found amusing.
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For them, the definition of porn as female subordination by men mirrored conservative puritanism.
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"We have become overly focused on this ingredient preciousness, single-origin puritanism," he said.
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"We're entering into an age of new puritanism," said Lias Saoudi, Fat White Family's frontman.
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He couldn't pantomime Puritanism; he'd emblazoned his name on casinos and the Miss Universe pageant.
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Oil wealth has hidden a woefully unproductive economy, and fuelled Islamic ultra-puritanism around the world.
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French actress Catherine Deneuve recently made headlines denouncing the #Metoo campaign as puritanism gone too far.
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For Williams, Rome offered freedom — an escape from the puritanism that plagued his life back home.
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A Saudi businessman says royal rulers, in their volte-face on puritanism, "have been exposed as hypocrites".
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In short, perhaps it's time for a new Puritanism, though with fewer witch trials this time around.
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The debate was centered on the question of [men's] "freedom to bother," and on feminists' purported puritanism.
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So I think the vacuum of that is only intensifying the tension between the puritanism and the objectification obsession.
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Among other jabs the Deneuve letter made at American-style feminism, it denounced the "puritanism" of the #MeToo movement.
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A disconcertingly sultry naïf, she made her mark on a culture skittishly poised between prurience and an uneasy Puritanism.
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And he justifies his hatred of women not with religious puritanism but with vague hand-waving about science and biology.
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Founded in the seventeenth century, Salafism was once something of a fringe joke because of the extremes of its puritanism.
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By now stories of progressive Puritanism (or perhaps the better word is Philistinism) are so commonplace — snowflakes seek safe space!
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Wealthy old men in Italy roll their eyes at American puritanism and wink at peccadilloes that we call sexual abuse.
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"You're dealing with politics, conflicts of interest, cliques, a predictable attitude, but also staggering exaggerations of conservatism and puritanism," he continued.
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The man's right to "pester" a woman was an essential part of sexual freedom, they said, describing the campaign as "puritanism".
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Proust, born of a Jewish mother and raised Catholic by atheist parents, did not share Ruskin's religious faith or moral puritanism.
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"'No means no' is puritanism," he says at one point, invoking one of the slogans of the anti-date-rape movement.
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The fact that we must still ask this question is a testament to society's unrelenting puritanism and ingrained attitudes toward gay desire.
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Perhaps this puritanism is a reaction against the last trip I ever took with my parents at the end of high school.
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A common thread of these conversations is consternation at the repression of free expression and the new puritanism that has replaced it.
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The particular incarnations of the online left and right that exist today are undoubtedly a product of this strange period of ultra puritanism.
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When Max Weber wrote of the Protestant work ethic in 1904, he had in mind Calvinism and its relatives, such as American Puritanism.
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And I'll miss Klobuchar — she got better with every debate and communicated empathy and intelligence, as opposed to bluster, schtick and ideological puritanism.
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But I bet that I'm hardly alone in finding them a refreshing antidote to the rampant dietary puritanism that is blighting our times.
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As a conservative who appreciates feminism precisely because of its puritanical streak, it's important to concede that sometimes fears of puritanism are justified.
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Some conservatives say the new trend amounts to an attack on the French way of life in the name of U.S.-style puritanism.
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James frequently drew contrasts between the knowing sophistication and decadence of "old Europe" and the naive but well-intentioned Puritanism of young America.
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The siege of the grand mosque in Mecca stung Saudi Arabia into promoting its rival Sunni brand of ultra-puritanism at home and abroad.
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This article originally appeared on VICE UK. Like you and every other person in the world, I am no good at New Year puritanism.
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People worry that we are sliding down a slippery slope to neo-puritanism, or in the throes of a witch hunt for sexual impropriety.
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But scratch the surface and most people don't share the kind of neo-Soviet puritanism pushed by the current traditionalist union of Russia's church and state.
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Some of this obsession also traces to our Puritanism: The idea that you'd eat for pleasure is an uncomfortable idea for people in such a culture.
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Today, the Paynes Fund Studies and the Hays Code are upheld as cautionary tales — reminders of what happens when we let panic and puritanism guide our choices.
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And then: After ten days of this puritanism, I lose absolutely all interest and motivation and eat a tray of chicken nuggets and drink two cans of coke.
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Atwood's book has echoes of New England Puritanism, along with atrocities drawn from sources including Saudi Wahhabism, the Third Reich, American slavery, and the East German surveillance state.
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But the United States has two root ideologies: one of them being the Puritanism of the 17th century, and the other being the Enlightenment of the 18th century.
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Those seeking a more sobering perspective on the toxic highs of celebrity may want to make the pilgrimage to the Boston area, the cradle of admonitory American puritanism.
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This new puritanism of the left is imposed with utmost brutality, in true authoritarian style – something I know well from the way my family was treated in Communist Hungary.
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On the other, there is the legacy of Puritanism, which sees Americans not just as individuals but as citizens, who are in some ways obligated to help one another.
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Plus, even when there are sex surveys, things like stigma, shame, taboo, and sexual puritanism in general tend to result in people lying about what they do in bed.
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It's deeply steeped in a poetic and personal tradition, infused with a marked disdain for puritanism, and musically highly reminiscent of the psychosexual, stark world of Canadian icon Leonard Cohen.
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" According to Will Hansen, the Newberry's Curator of Americana, Beede's commissions reflect "a strain of American Puritanism that continues to this day, which is that people should work for money.
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Puritanism, another reform movement within the Church of England, inspired its members to seek a new life in the New World and helped shape America as we know it today.
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Deneuve and 99 other women on Tuesday signed a column in Le Monde daily which argued that the #Metoo movement amounted to puritanism and was fuelled by a hatred of men.
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The classics and modernism were linked in Davenport's mind (he studied Pound's use of Greek myth), and both offered an alternative to the provincialism and puritanism in which he'd grown up.
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She is an outspoken and self-proclaimed liberal Protestant who nonetheless in her nonfiction is a formidable interpreter of John Calvin, the theologian whom many associate with dour, strict, condemning Puritanism.
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By this point, he had moved away from the neorealist tales set among the lower classes and moved deeper into scurrilous provocations that increasingly nudged the puritanism of the Italian public.
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Deneuve and 99 other women on Tuesday signed a column in the newspaper Le Monde that argued that the #Metoo movement amounted to puritanism and was fueled by a hatred of men.
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In part its puritanism was a response to a double shock in 1979, the Islamic revolution in mainly Shia Iran and the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca by Sunni extremists.
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The moment encapsulates a central challenge: to explore the repercussions of a business dependent upon the sale of the flesh through storytelling that never slips into preachy puritanism or flat-out pornography.
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" Deneuve and 99 other French women on Tuesday denounced a backlash against men, saying the recent international campaign against sexual harassment amounted to "puritanism" and was fueled by a "hatred of men.
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Something has gone terribly wrong in the mental and sexual life of a culture—once rich in diversity—when it is hijacked by a conservative puritanism that is autocratically enforced by repressed men.
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In his youth he had joined the Muslim Brotherhood as a counterweight to puritanism, and found it a strange contradiction that Saudi Arabia, "the mother of all political Islam", should want to attack it.
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PARIS (Reuters) - Actress Catherine Deneuve apologized to victims of sexual assault who were offended by a column denouncing "puritanism" she signed following the Harvey Weinstein scandal, but maintained her reservations about the #MeToo campaign.
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There are separate male and female sides — once you're in your section, check any Puritanism you may have at the door and be prepared to hang out with a large number of naked people.
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Ms. Atwood is something of a scholar of Puritanism, and she said every horrific episode in the story happened somewhere in history already, whether stonings or enslavement, reproductive restrictions or forbidding women to read.
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Hailing from a Methodist family in the Midwest, he styled himself as someone who transcended the sexual puritanism endemic in the United States, despite his carefully tailored embodiment of an old-fashioned form of masculinity.
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Sex is a complex taboo, arising, in places like Algeria, Tunisia, Syria or Yemen, out of the ambient conservatism's patriarchal culture, the Islamists' new, rigorist codes and the discreet puritanism of the region's various socialisms.
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The other dedicatee of "The Handmaid's Tale" was Perry Miller, the scholar of American intellectual history; Atwood studied under him at Harvard, in the early sixties, extending her knowledge of Puritanism well beyond fireside tales.
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"She loathes the complacent idleness whereby contemporary Americans dismiss Puritanism and turn John Calvin, its great proponent, into an obscure, moralizing bigot," the critic James Wood wrote of Robinson in the New Yorker in 2008.
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The Handmaid's Tale exaggerated the undertones of American Puritanism that were ascendant during the Reagan era into an imagined totalitarian theocracy, one in which women were treated as chattel and forced into lives of sexual slavery.
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"He challenges us to rethink our stereotyped notions of a Puritanism that is hostile to art, or of a monolithic 'Restoration culture' that is all rakes, prostitutes and Pepysian encounters in the playhouse," the review said.
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As Matt Yglesias recently wrote for Vox, the left's defense of Clinton revolved around glossing over other accusations, centering the Lewinsky scandal, characterizing it as consensual, and blaming the prurience and puritanism of the American media.
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The futuristic high tech hub looks set to become a flagship of reforms championed by Prince Mohammed to create jobs, encourage entrepreneurs and permit new freedoms among Saudis steeped in religious puritanism and dependence on the state.
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He celebrated AIDS as just deserts for anyone who didn't adhere to his stringent sexual standards—a sentiment 14 percent of Americans still believe: But in other respects, his obsessive cultural puritanism has fallen out of vogue.
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Actress Catherine Deneuve famously denounced #Metoo as puritanism gone too far, and U.S. first lady Melania Trump this week said she supported women speaking out, but that they need to have hard evidence to back their claims.
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As Manfredi Piccolomini wrote in 303 in the American Interest: Puritanism is often cited to explain American indignation toward turpitude in high places and the moral outrage that follows the disclosure of sexual, financial and political scandals.
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This tension between take-what-you-want hedonism and a stark sense of respectability is manifest, too, in the modern world's blend of prurience and puritanism, or in the support of American religious conservatives for a libertine president.
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And last November, Mr. Pavlensky, who speaks halting French, started a French-language website called pornopolitique, which solicited embarrassing material on politicians ("This is our only way out of the swamps of Puritanism and hypocrisy!" a manifesto explained).
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But to truly atone for its evangelical embrace of puritanism and its propagation throughout the Muslim world, it must champion reform and dialogue across the diverse mosaic of tradition, mysticism, and sect that encompass the global Islamic experience.
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And puritanism was pushed hard as a response to a double political shock in 1979: the siege of the Great Mosque in Mecca by Sunni extremists; and the Islamic revolution in Iran, which became ruled by radical Shia clerics.
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This is where the Al Sauds forged their alliance in the 18th century with a Muslim revivalist preacher, Muhammad Ibn Abdel-Wahhab—a pact that to this day fuses the modern Saudi state with the puritanism of Wahhabi Islam.
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Sometimes "The Money Cult" reads like something straight out of the 1920s, when the Young Intellectuals who invented an American literary canon (Van Wyck Brooks, Lewis Mumford, et al.) made Puritanism a metaphor for everything distasteful about American culture.
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The revulsion expressed by many at Trump's remarks had nothing to do with puritanism or sexual repression, and everything to do with their predatory nature, the disregard for his wife, and the boastfulness, mixed with libido, that produced such toxic vanity.
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Forget the dog-in-the-manger, down-in-the-mouth neo-puritanism of the op-ed tumbrel drivers, and see him instead as his guests do: a man in a dinner jacket with more heat than any star in the room.
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It meant something to me to know that my novels were brightening the lives of a vast host of people in those dim dark days of 30-plus years ago when puritanism was riding high and sex was in chains.
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The scenes of harvesting wheat with primitive equipment and caring for farm animals in a turbulent climate are a continual reminder that despite its beauty, life here is no idyll, and the rural community's strict Puritanism frowns on frivolity and idle pleasure.
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Puritanism, in its marriage of convenience with industrial capitalism, was the agent which converted men to new valuations of time; which taught children even in their infancy to improve each shining hour; and which saturated men's minds with the equation, time is money.
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"The desire to distance ourselves from a 'puritanism' which is 'Protestant,' 'Anglo-Saxon' and 'feminist' plays well notably in intellectual milieus, and anti-Americanism has been a constant dimension of anti-feminism in France for more than a century," Ms. Bard said.
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In 1971, the British critic Raymond Durgnat observed that the "rationalist puritanism" of some critics meant that they often disliked female-driven soap operas and the emotional vulnerability they stir up, but didn't object to what he smartly called the male weepie.
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" On her YouTube channel, Contrapoints, Wynn tries to reframe the debate around issues like free speech, the alt-right, incels, and transgender pronouns in a way that "makes [the far right] reveal their puritanism and their phobias, and has me as the, like, libertine.
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The letter said men should be "free to hit on" women and criticised a new "puritanism" that has taken hold following feminist social media campaigns like #MeToo and #BalanceTonPorc (Call out your pig), its French equivalent, and painted a picture of all women as "victims".
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And the interesting question arises: if Puritanism was a necessary part of the work-ethos which enabled the industrialized world to break out of the poverty-stricken economies of the past, will the Puritan valuation of time begin to decompose as the pressures of poverty relax?
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Thus the puritanism of conservatism would be more admirable, more fully moral, if religious conservatives had a stronger appreciation for the reality of sexism, the value of female leadership, the need to seriously correct for the way ideals of chastity often punished women more than men.
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More than 300,000 accounts of sexual harassment or abuse have been published under the French #balancetonporc or #squealonyourpig hashtag on Twitter in the past week, though some conservatives say the new trend amounts to an attack on the French way of life in the name of U.S.-style puritanism.
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And as a designer who has often been at his best when he is using fashion to philosophize on the subject of sex (or Puritanism or hidebound morality), he may have struggled with how to express himself at a time when the topic has become a public minefield.
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Mather was a difficult figure to take the measure of, in part because of his enormous output — 388 works appeared under his name — but also because of his fearsome reputation as the great ayatollah of American Puritanism and the sinister apologist for the excesses of the Salem witch trials.
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But there is a really big disagreement over whether American culture ought to change in a major way or whether the real problem is "millennial snowflakes," out-of-control political correctness, and a zealous neo-Puritanism that can't even take a joke or see an affectionate gesture for what it is.
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"I just can't see the intolerance of the far right, presently directed not only at abortion clinics and homosexuals but also at high school libraries and small-town schoolteachers, as leading to a super-biblical puritanism by which procreation will be insisted on and reading of any kind banned," she writes.
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Despite Connecticut's deep roots in Puritanism, which generally frowned upon frivolity, the Constitution State is poised to shun its priggish past in order to boost its stagnant economy by legalizing sports betting and recreational marijuana — potentially generating hundreds of millions in much needed revenue, creating thousands of jobs and promoting tourism.
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Even where they stop short of fomenting anti-Western violence, global networks of religious fundamentalism and puritanism, such as those linking preachers from say, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia, have replaced the relatively emollient tone set by the Ottoman caliphs, who were connoisseurs of Western art and music, as a colleague has written.
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But liberal optimists were wrong as well — wrong to expect that the new order would bring about a clear increase in sexual fulfillment, wrong to anticipate a healthy integration of sexual desire and romantic attachment, wrong to assume that a happily egalitarian relationship between the sexes awaited once puritanism was rejected and repression cast aside.
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The puritanism of feminism, meanwhile, would be more realistic if it could acknowledge that crucial differences between men and women aren't just an artifact of sexism, and that the costs that promiscuity imposes and the unhappiness it breeds might actually be woven into the deeper natures of how both sexes love and mate and reproduce.
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For much of its so-called classical age, the film industry simultaneously embraced a cultural puritanism onscreen and a happy, shiny front for the public lives of its starry personnel, who were packaged as being as ordinary, domesticated, middle class and white as its targeted audience, just with fancier clothing, swanker cars and better teeth.
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Because the US is a deeply parochial society, not much given to seeing itself from the outside, what seems obvious to an external observer – the fact that the more baroque forms of political correctness represent the latest outbreak of good old-fashioned American Puritanism – seems not to be much recognized at Yale or Columbia.
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If you are so inclined, you can also read a Very Short Introduction to, among a great many other things, Rivers, Mountains, Metaphysics, the Mongols, Chaos, Cryptography, Forensic Psychology, Hinduism, Autism, Puritanism, Fascism, Free Will, Drugs, Nutrition, Crime Fiction, Madness, Malthus, Medical Ethics, Hieroglyphics, the Russian Revolution, the Reagan Revolution, Dinosaurs, Druids, Plague, Populism, and the Devil.
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As, of course, is Epstein's pal Bill Clinton, who hasn't been exposed in the Trump era so much as finally acknowledged, by a growing number of liberals, as a sexual predator who survived impeachment because the establishment went into a panic about the specter of puritanism and either smeared or ignored the women credibly accusing him.
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Simmons said that it wasn't the most realistic, as far as survivalist works of fiction went, that it was still too bathed in American puritanism, too shy in coming to terms with the speed at which morality would disappear in the event of a zombie apocalypse, but that there was still some useful information to pick up from the show.
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Thus in the late 1990s, when evangelical Christianity seemed to be growing and Republican power with it, feminists who had once railed against sexual harassment suddenly found reasons to make their peace with the piggery — sorry, European cultural sophistication — of a liberal president, and to dismiss even credible rape allegations as a neo-puritanism that needed to be defeated at all costs.
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The plays' protagonists, both named Hester, bend low or stand tall in a political climate in which the powerless are given an even rawer deal than they could have imagined, but Parks never gives up on her characters; she shows how pain wears on them, but also how they outwit life—which is to say a life that is dominated by male-generated puritanism.
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Over time, though, free trade and globalization and deindustrialization made that postwar system less economically viable; the decline of labor and the collapse of the New Deal coalition made it less politically necessary; and the cultural revolutions of the 1960s and 1970s made its implicit moral values (heteronormativity for workers, a kind of penny-pinching puritanism for bosses) seem less congenial and more oppressive.
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In short, focused chapters, Mr Impey charts the prison's many rises and falls: from its beginnings as a house of correction built to accommodate a new vagrant class, which had flocked to the fast-expanding city from a rural heartland impoverished by landgrabs and industrialisation; through the eras of Victorian puritanism and modern social reform, during which HMP Brixton was variously regarded as a pit of squalor and despair and a centre for enlightened rehabilitative ideas.
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