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When did "basic" go from meaning an everyday staple to the most insulting label a girl could wear?
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Overweight people often do not rush to buy clothes and when they do find themselves squeezed between the garment racks, they do not buy clothes that don't fit or have an insulting size label.
They will bang on about lack of authority and respect, lie to you about the past ("I beat them and they thanked me for it etc") casually insulting, blaming and labelling children.
Ogio does this on most of their bags and while I initially found the little labels insulting and somewhat comical, but they're there for a purpose.
One Russian billionaire, after lambasting the "emerging" label as insulting, suggests using "high-growth economy" instead.
Yankovsky was admired for his ability to elicit complex emotions and to inhabit characters; his handsome features made him something of a sex symbol, a label he found insulting.
Ground zero for this hysteria is Fox News, where Brit Hume last Sunday lamented how insulting it is "to be labeled a racist" in "contemporary" America.
Opponents of Mr. Najafi are using a recent fatwa by a leading cleric, Ayatollah Lotfollah Safi-Golpayegani, which labels all those insulting the 10th Shiite imam, Ali al-Hadi al-Naqi, also known as Imam Naghi, as apostates.
Ambitious men are seen as go-getters, she writes, but there is a public distaste for smart, aggressive, successful career women, who are too often labeled with the insulting epithet in the book's title.
Statements of fact cannot be insulting unless you feel that the label applied indicates some failing, moral or otherwise, in yourself.
The label didn't sound insulting, it just seemed like smart marketing for a book that didn't fit easily into any specific genre.
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