Fonda said that although she supported female candidates, brought gender issues into her film roles, produced women-centred films, and made exercise videos to help women get strong physically, her feminism was theoretical: "in my head, not my blood and bones".
From the start, Tirole's research was highly theoretical in nature.
"He was the most theoretical in the theory group," said Yuval Peres, the current head of the theory group.
They said the difference between us and the French was that the French women were far more theoretical in their approach.
But psychology evolved into an empirical discipline, grounded in close observation of human behavior, while economics became increasingly theoretical — in some ways it resembled a branch of mathematics.
Whereas the men – a vicar-poet, a journalist, an academic – are often pompous and theoretical in their approach to life, the women are instinctively warmer, more grounded and open to forgiveness.
Unlike a fuel-cell car, the Hydrogen 7 can rely on today's gasoline stations to carry it between hydrogen pumps that are still largely theoretical in the United States.
But women's advocates say that even so, protections for women remain mostly theoretical in much of the country, particularly in rural areas, where tradition runs deepest and women have limited access to advocacy services and courts.
In the "SVU" alternate reality it was allowed to go to trial, so that all the questions that remained theoretical in real life could be argued out.
It has to be said that Beauvoir's interest in these matters was not purely theoretical (in fact, it is hard to conceive of any philosopher's thoughts being purely theoretical).
