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(percieved control by the "Jewish/Israel Lobby" of US foreign policy, etc - JD) represents what I call a fetished form of anti-capitalism.
Shiraz Socialist 2010
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(percieved control by the "Jewish/Israel Lobby" of US foreign policy, etc - JD) represents what I call a fetished form of anti-capitalism.
Shiraz Socialist charliethechulo 2010
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But I do feel uncomfortable at the way that society has, in the last decade or so or at least that's when I've become aware of it fetished motherhood.
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Which is why the title of "Humping Stumps" because the guys involved aren't having a relationship with a female named June or Jennifer, they have already fetished her amputation to a level that her as a person gets in the way of that fantasy, that literally every action is taken to get close to the object of desire the "stump" not the person.
Devotees and me (closing Screw Bronze); the cage of stereotype plus a suicide! Elizabeth McClung 2007
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At first glance this show looks like Barnett Newman's stations of the cross revisited until it clicks that these are book spines ... fetished subtly and formally in a half ridiculous way.
PORT 2009
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A younger generation of women are covering up, citing new feminist priorities, skin cancer fears and a rebellion against the cult of the fetished body beautiful.
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I can't recall that I ever had to show my legs (at least above the ankle) or personally strike some sexy, fetished pose in order to do it.
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But I do feel uncomfortable at the way that society has, in the last decade or so (or at least that’s when I’ve become aware of it) fetished motherhood.
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'natural selection'to his own fetished value system, i. e.selfish stinginess.
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"She was very beautiful, and I wondered not that my enemy loved her -- and she was with child -- it was his child, and she had fetished my friend to death.
Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820
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