Most of the humor is of the squirmy, social-embarrassment kind: for instance, Gus being the first guest at a housewarming party for Mickey's friends.
But I don't detect any generalised hostility to women in them (of the kind, for instance, you can often glimpse in Saul Bellow's work).
Baker's early duties with the Department of Health involved such intrepid tasks as "invading Bowery lodging-houses, the ten-cents-a-night kind, for instance, to vaccinate the patrons against small-pox in the very early hours of the morning".
And yet there must be room onstage for drag and its off-center presentation, or else we'll end up with a theatre of conformity — the kind, for instance, that didn't question the cross-dressing in two Shakespeare productions staged by the Globe's troupe of all-male players, starring Mark Rylance, on Broadway in 2013.
Additionally excluded were mammograms of breasts that had undergone surgery of any kind, for instance lumpectomy because of breast cancer or benign breast diseases or breast reduction.
In crossing this threshold, one ceases to be a being of a certain morally privileged kind: for instance, one ceases to be an autonomous individual, or one turns from a person into a nonperson.
In fact, real universals are identical with their own individuals when considered as natures of a certain kind (for instance, man is the same thing as Socrates), but different from them when considered qua universals and qua individuals respectively, because of the opposite constitutive principles: generality for universals and thisness for individuals (De universalibus, p. 181).
It is not immediately clear that (MD) could be strengthened into a bi-conditional, at least if such a bi-conditional is supposed to provide an analysis of 'e means M'; for this, we would need to ensure that R is of the right kind, for instance, that it is a semantic, not a pragmatic rule, and that its being in force determines M, and not some other, or no, meaning.
We did a few calculations of this kind, for instance, on NA sites 9 81 ("stalk") and 9 110.
Any costs incurred in kind (for instance, seed borrowed from neighbors) was also valued in the questionnaire and therefore easy to incorporate into our calculations.
