Sentences with phrase «women as traps»

However, I believe there are problems with strict enforcement, least of which is that it misses the heart of the matter entirely, treating women as traps.

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This is the devil at his best as he traps and woos these women into bondage.
Thus many women who seek counseling find little help in escaping the trap between a submissive existence in which they are of secondary importance if not actively obedient to men, and a pedestal - like existence in which they are exalted as beautiful and holy.
He was no trained philosopher but he would have regarded the notion of, for example, being a woman trapped in a man's body as meaningless, not simply because of the particular details of the claim but also because he would have considered the phrase being trapped in a body to be arrant nonsense.
When I find it funny to think of a nerdy bald God or of Zacchaeus as short, it's because I am still trapped in unrealistic cultural ideals of the perfect man and woman.
In fact, American women have already heard this whole spiel about how we are trapped and imprisoned by our roles and choices as parents, and that criticism came from many in Jong's generation of second - wave feminists.
As women, it is so easy to fall into the trap of feeling we don't belong and being jealous over what another has, be it looks or success.
A younger woman will also tend to come back to a place filled with warmth and affection as long as she knows it is not a trap.
As a woman, I have to say that I've fallen into the trap of talking too much out of nervousness.
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They are not considered as old desperate women who are luring young guys into their trap.
It has all the weird traps of that trope, in which sex is treated as the natural territory of men, to which women need introduction.
Moore's stunning, subtle performance as a woman trapped in the conventions of her time encapsulates the film's brave, double - edged beauty.
As though fatalistically compelled, all three leads self - destruct: Li is as flat, colorless, and stiff as a panel of Sheetrock, Karyo plays his every syllable in overdrive, and Fonda seems trapped in the midst of a failed screen test for Pretty Woman IAs though fatalistically compelled, all three leads self - destruct: Li is as flat, colorless, and stiff as a panel of Sheetrock, Karyo plays his every syllable in overdrive, and Fonda seems trapped in the midst of a failed screen test for Pretty Woman Ias flat, colorless, and stiff as a panel of Sheetrock, Karyo plays his every syllable in overdrive, and Fonda seems trapped in the midst of a failed screen test for Pretty Woman Ias a panel of Sheetrock, Karyo plays his every syllable in overdrive, and Fonda seems trapped in the midst of a failed screen test for Pretty Woman II.
Olsen stars in the 1860s Paris - set thriller as the titular character, a beautiful but sexually repressed young woman trapped in a loveless marriage with Camille (Felton), her sickly cousin.
An adaptation of Patricia Highsmith «s «Carol» (also known as «The Price Of Salt «-RRB-, penned by Phyllis Nagy («Mrs. Harris «-RRB-, the»50s New York - set tale follows the story of two women — one a 20 - something girl working in a department store while harbouring bigger dreams, the other a middle - aged wife trapped in a money - driven, loveless marriage — and the relationship that brews between the two.
Among the other highly anticipated Galas are the previously announced American Express Gala of Todd Haynes» CAROL, a beautiful 1950s romantic drama about a young woman working as a clerk in a department store who meets and falls in love with an alluring woman trapped in a loveless convenient marriage.
The Shape of Water, a tale of a mute woman (Sally Hawkins) who falls in love with an amphibious being trapped in a government lab, has been praised for its allegorical import by critics and is positioned as a potential frontrunner at the upcoming Oscars.
Exarchopoulos delivers a bold, thoroughly credible breakthrough performance at the movie's center, portraying her character as a woman trapped by the mixed messages around her.
She plays an alluring woman trapped in a loveless marriage who falls for a young woman, played by Rooney Mara, working as a department store clerk in 50s Manhattan.
BRIE Brie Larson has accepted an offer to star in the psychological horror drama as «Ma», about a woman who's trapped in her father's basement for years with her son.
Lenny Abrahamson's adaptation of the Emma Donoghue bestseller about a woman trapped in a room with her young son has taken the festival's top prize, generally reckoned as a key Oscars indicator
The film's nationwide release, timed for social impact, comes just as the U.S. Supreme Court takes on Whole Woman's Health v. Hellerstedt, the landmark case that will determine the constitutionality of «TRAP» (Targeted Regulation of Abortion Providers) laws.
Jennings presents Bennett as an artistic idealist trapped in the realm of a caged caretaker being pulled apart by elder women that invite and inspire shades of affection and alienation.
Jonathan Pryce is the dreamer trapped as a worker bee in the bureaucratic maze as deadly as it is indifferent, until he falls in love with a woman (Kim Greist) he thinks may belong to the terrorist underground.
Paul Verhoeven's reputation as a master of provocation was certainly burnished by this French film about a woman — Isabelle Huppert, earning her first Oscar nomination with a performance that's equal parts scary and seductive — who survives a rape in her own home and then spends the rest of the film setting a leisurely trap for her unseen attacker.
The film is just as much about the ownership of women's bodies as it is about an alien invasion — ScarJo's blank face and slight, twitchy physicality are incredible to watch, as the men she encounters (many of them non-actors who were captured with hidden cameras) leer at her, make conversation, and eventually get sprung by the same trap they clearly wish to set for Scarlett.
Jessica, now trapped as a man, tries to maintain some semblance of her life while trying to find a way to reverse the process, while Clive lives it up, utilizing the young woman's body as a means to make a quick buck.
The most creative and innovative and daring proposals of South America usually come from Brazil, such as Lúcia Murat's Praça Paris (Lúcia Murat, 2017), which really grants a voice to Afro - Brazilians through a young black woman from the favela (Rio's slums), trapped between the endless violence of her environment and the progressive flirting with disaster of her middle class white psychotherapist.
From a costume point of view, and therefore a character point of view, The Grand Budapest Hotel (directed by Wes Anderson) is all about uniforms; those worn by men and women in official capacities and those adopted as a life uniform by those trapped in the past.
If a country finds a way to meet the basic needs of women by taking loans that the whole society must pay, but the national constitution, and the various policies and services do not show the timely commitment for equity and equality, the chance to eradicate poverty and hunger will only be about the alleviation of these two major indicators of real development and sustainability It is then urgent and important not to fall in such a trap, which only comes to add to the financial and economic indebtedness of the society, and nations, to say the least, and to maintain the system of inequality and impoverishment as it basically exist..
One of Adichie's greatest gifts is her ability to sketch the lives of her characters (mostly women), and to limn the differences between Nigeria and the United States with a few telling details... A lesser author would take the easy road of broadly painting these cultural differences so that one culture came across as superior to the other, but Adichie seldom falls into this trap.
The game's called «Because it's Fun, Fay», and is about a woman called Fay who has been trapped in a tower by a lonely fairy known as Cornipolous.
You can check out the full three hour hearing here, but for those of you that don't have an afternoon to kill listening to quarter century - old CSPAN programming, the gist of it was that Night Trap — with its lurid depiction of half - naked women getting their blood sucked out of their necks with giant K'NEX toys — was lambasted as the exemplar of virtual depravity and degeneracy.
Step into the strange world of the Labyrinth as Amelia, a young woman with no memories of who she is, or why she is trapped here.
As we were watching the pain and humiliation suffered by the woman, we became both voyeurs and victims; voyeurs as we could not stop watching and victims as we could not leave, trapped in the darkness of an unfamiliar garagAs we were watching the pain and humiliation suffered by the woman, we became both voyeurs and victims; voyeurs as we could not stop watching and victims as we could not leave, trapped in the darkness of an unfamiliar garagas we could not stop watching and victims as we could not leave, trapped in the darkness of an unfamiliar garagas we could not leave, trapped in the darkness of an unfamiliar garage.
Everybody loses, the «PowerPlay» paintings and studies insist, and men are as trapped in and diminished by their roles as women in and by theirs.
Inspired in part by period episodic television programs such as Rod Serling's Night Gallery, as well as incorporating French existentialism and absurdist dialogue, Gaines, Gordon and Segade appear in videos in which, among other things, an unemployed woman romances a supernatural being; a man turns to witch doctors following a health insurance hassle; and art curators trapped in an executive board room curate — literally — nightmares drawn from today's economic anxieties.
Francesca Galeazzi is a self - described «nasty, evil woman» in this short video clip, shot in Greenland several days ago and aimed at pillorying so - called «carbon offsets» as a dubious justification for actions that release a lot of carbon dioxide, the main heat - trapping emission building in the atmosphere.
The woman was clocked at 51 km / h over the limit but she had been trying to pass a large transport as quickly as possible because she was afraid of being trapped in the trucker's blind spot.
Many men fall into the trap of thinking that at some point these women will naturally adjust to his need to have some space as the relationship continues.
States parties should ensure that adequate protection and health services, including trauma treatment and counselling, are provided for women in especially difficult circumstances, such as those trapped in situations of armed conflict and women refugees.
I found it amusing that more men than women selected «talks too much» as a deal breaker, and more women than men selected «too quiet» as a deal breaker — a perfect example of how sometimes we fall into the trap of desiring someone just like us.
Again, as predicted, it was found that the more strongly men and women endorsed the secure schema, the more calm and confident (and the less fearful and trapped) they felt when confronting pending commitments.
Women always have dominated the single buyers» market and they may be suffering most from a combinations and economic and political forces that have trapped singles into rental units at a time when rents are rising rapidly as vacancy rates reach history lows or 4.5 percent or lower.
Art thou mad woman??!! As a serious water element currently trapped in the Hell That Is Inland, I say again... girl, have you gone crazy?
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