Your English writing platform
Discover LudwigExact(6)
To the charge that her proposed reforms would be too expensive, Mrs. Sidel answers that, in the long run, it is cheaper to spend money on the prevention of social ills than to spend it on caring for malnourished and sick children, alienated men who turn to drugs and crime and overstressed women who turn inward into depression and mental illness.
Lonely and discouraged boys become isolated and alienated men.
It's potent stuff, delving into pornography, incest, murder and mutilation in the company of alienated men and unhappy, sometimes cruel women.
"Being Flynn" is a much milder movie than "Taxi Driver," pursuing intimate themes rather than big ideas, but Jonathan Flynn and Travis Bickle are linked by the discrepancy between self-image and reality and also by Mr. De Niro's gift for portraying alienated men at odds with themselves.
The nervousness over screen violence was at a renewed high in the wake of the shootings at Columbine High School, and this must have seemed like the worst possible time to release a film in which an army of alienated men, led by Brad Pitt's charismatic Tyler Durden, an übermensch in a red leather jacket, engage in bare-knuckle brawls, antisocial vandalism and outright revolutionary terrorism.
Ironically, it works to convince alienated men that sex/gender has marked them as unique sort of outsider/failures, who cannot be accepted even into the multicultural coalitions that define themselves by their capacity for acceptance.
Similar(54)
Chick flicks, however, seldom if ever go out of their way to alienate men.
But Mazda did not want to alienate men, so Mr. Maeda gave the car prominently arched front fenders that suggest power.
While we're all about making technology accessible to women, we have to make sure we're not alienating men.
But Mazda did not want to alienate men, so the designers also tried to give the car a confident, sporty stance.
The approach risks delivering a message so gender specific that it alienates men.
Write better and faster with AI suggestions while staying true to your unique style.
Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com