Challenges to the movement, or the sense that other women are somehow doing feminism wrong, can feel like personal affronts.
But it is the peculiarities of the kickers' job conditions -- one of them sat on a field and watched the sprinklers blow one day, trying to read the wind, another is obsessed with the Weather Channel -- that make the National Football League's toughest stadiums to kick in seem like personal affronts.
The owner, Sal Bednarz, wrote in an email, "I think it's fascinating that we've allowed technology to creep into so much of our lives that it can feel like an affront when someone (like me) asks us to step away from it for a short while".
"I'm sorry, but it feels like a personal affront, like she's trying to excuse our son's death with the war," Barb Varney said, adding that Mr. Strasburg has "never shown any remorse".
Positioned like a sash across the torso of Manhattan, Broadway seems like an affront to those who favor a perfectly aligned grid of streets.
It seems like an affront to posterity.
"If the grief is fresh, holiday cheer can seem like an affront.
For anyone accustomed to high degrees of control, this can seem, at first, like an affront.
Talking about potential reforms, even when aimed at protecting the service, feels to many like an affront.
It was Johnson's lifestyle, as much as his physical prowess, that felt like an affront to white America.
