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  • My gut rebels, in the same way that watching middle-class drag kings portraying their take on the brutish masculinity of working class males for sexual arousal of screaming mostly middle class (or aspiring thereto) women struck me as sick-making cooptation.

    Minstrel Shows 2010

  • Isn't that a bit sick-making for a man who cut his teeth on rock and roll?

    Vince Power and the glory of music festivals 2011

  • There has been a petition opposing the production and the Ipswich MP, Ben Gummer, described it as "pretty sick-making".

    We shouldn't make entertainment out of others' tragedy | Catherine Bennett 2011

  • Isn't that a bit sick-making for a man who cut his teeth on rock and roll?

    Vince Power and the glory of music festivals 2011

  • Does he, like the victimized woman who was victimized again at his hands, require protection after his sick-making judgement?

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • My gut rebels, in the same way that watching middle-class drag kings portraying their take on the brutish masculinity of working class males for sexual arousal of screaming mostly middle class (or aspiring thereto) women struck me as sick-making cooptation.

    Archive 2010-02-01 2010

  • Last Friday afternoon's news that yet another condition has been placed upon our fellow-citizen Abousfian Abdelrazik before he can return home to his family was frankly sick-making.

    Archive 2009-03-01 2009

  • That way one can avoid the sick-making moment when the desire to protect starts to destroy: the smooth lawn that you're not allowed to play on; the window locked shut in case of burglars; the child prevented from learning from any adult who isn't government approved.

    Children don't require protection. They need to learn to trust intuition Louisa Young 2010

  • In this, the tone of the story strongly echoes the genuinely sick-making words of Barack Obama after the incident.

    Blowback On the Border: The Purpose of the Terror War System 2010

  • I note that you can submit anything as a Kindle book for publication--and Nathan Bransford's pie-in-the-sky ebook Utopia about anyone can publish now is sick-making.

    Making Light: The "agency model" as I understand it 2010

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