(1) The fact that so little progress has been made in the specific area of female sexuality is partly because of divisions within feminism – many of the boldest voices see the Slut business as a post-modern stunt, where sexual violence is used as a stalking horse to co-opt young women into hot pants and thence into the raunch culture that oppresses them further.
(2) "Raunch culture," Walby writes, "is bound up with the neoliberal turn, with its commercialised and competitive approach to intimacy.
(3) Last week she launched her skincare range MDNA Skin in Japan with a borderline self-parodic promotional video below, which harks back to the monochrome raunch of her early 90s Sex period as she intones: "Having good skin is important to me.
(4) I was part of this tide, bored by raunch pop’s rote form of rebellion and concerned that the pornification of pop was having a harmful impact on young viewers – particularly girls.
(5) Its popularity, however, perhaps owed an equal amount not to its slap-and-tickle raunch, but also to the fact that the sex came complete with first-class travel and the temporary suspension of money worries.
(6) But raunch is only effective because slut-shaming is still endemic , while sex – especially the queer and polyamorous kind – is still woefully taboo.
(7) Who’s got the power?” Papi Pacify reveals how nuanced and complex the music video medium can be, especially when artists and producers avoid raunch cliches.
(8) More worryingly, rumours suggest raunch is off the menu since he became a Jehovah's Witness.
(9) First, she addresses raunch culture or, if you prefer "post-feminism", which preoccupies and, I sometimes think, mires feminists, often creating discord between the second and third wave that needn't exist.
(10) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Three years on, the rise of raunch pop shows no signs of abating, driven on by a viral internet culture that requires constant one-upmanship and videos that are not only increasingly ridiculous ( see Miley Cyrus’s hilariously silly, Terry Richardson-directed Wrecking Ball video, in which she felates a sledgehammer while riding a gargantuan wrecking ball ) – but also increasingly fraught in terms of race politics.
Unacceptable
Definition:
(a.) Not acceptable; not pleasing; not welcome; unpleasant; disagreeable; displeasing; offensive.
Example Sentences:
(1) The obvious need for highly effective contraception in women with existing disorders of glucose metabolism has led to a search for oral contraceptive (OC) regimens for such women that are efficient but without unacceptable metabolic side effects.
(2) The European commission president, José Manuel Barroso, and the EU council president, Herman Van Rompuy, were both right to brand it unacceptable.
(3) Unacceptable toxicity occurred in 27% of patients initially treated at the high dose and only in 10% of those who had progressive dose escalation up to 36 X 10(6) units.
(4) Doreen Lawrence to speak at conference on police spying, corruption and racism Read more Mick Creedon, the Derbyshire Chief Constable who is leading the police’s internal investigation into the SDS, said the public inquiry “will help us with the work that is already underway to make sure that the unacceptable behaviour of some officers in the past never happens again”.
(5) Trade unions criticised the corporation’s 1% offer, tied to a minimum of just £390, for those staff earning under £50,000, calling it “completely unacceptable” .
(6) Miliband said: "Unfair pricing which hits the most vulnerable hardest is completely unacceptable.
(7) The councillors, including Philip Glanville, Hackney’s cabinet member for housing, said they had previously urged Benyon and Westbrook not to increase rents on the estate to market values, which in some cases would lead to a rise from about £600 a month to nearer £2,400, calling such a move unacceptable.
(8) His companions eventually apologised to me, but only after apologising to my boyfriend, and only after being kicked out by restaurant staff who reinforced that the behaviour was unacceptable.
(9) This is just one of the many blameworthy behaviors that young spring breakers have shown recently in Cancún and that are described as acts of xenophobia and discrimination against Mexicans within their own country, which is (or should be) totally unacceptable.” The story took off.
(10) There were large individual differences among rats selecting from pairs of unacceptable diets.
(11) I would have feared that doing as Proudman did and calling out behaviour that I found unacceptable would have been the end of my career, I would have let it go.
(12) Marginal overhang was the prevailing type of failure (17%), recurrent caries occurred at 12% of the restorations, unacceptable proximal contact at 10%, unacceptable marginal adaptation at 8% and isthmus fractures at 2%.
(13) This was unacceptable to everyone since it gave the UK a veto over reinstating the arms ban.
(14) In an effort to relieve subvesical resistance in the established paraplegic with unacceptable neurogenic vesical dysfunction while simultaneously preserving potency, a radical Y-V-plasty was carried out in 5 patients.
(15) Of these, practolol, phentolamine, practolol-phentolamine, phentolamine-practolol, promethazine, hexamethonium, procainamide and verapamil were unacceptable.
(16) Firstly, missing anterior teeth result in unacceptable changes in appearance and speech, making treatment mandatory.
(17) It is noted that we are still very dependent on A-V shunts for vascular access in end stage renal disease (ESRF) patients and this is associated with an unacceptable level of complications.
(18) In this patient, azathioprine induced and sustained a remission when unacceptably high doses of prednisone had failed, and may prove to be a valuable immunosuppressive in non-responsive coeliac disease.
(19) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
(20) Storage in plastic for even 30 days resulted in unacceptable loss of potency (greater than 15%) and formation of a brown precipitate.