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Our use of the word "problematic" is problematic.
What resonates in Manhattan Night is the frank and (if I may use a buzzy word) problematic way Caroline remains attracted to Simon despite his abusive nature.
We won't go there again for the risk of using the word "problematic", and instead trust that the writers have it in them to grow these women into characters of their own.
I use the word "problematic" in casual conversation.
I use the word "problematic" in casual discourse.
People have suggested alternatives, like "humanism" or "equalism" -- but I think we need to hang onto feminism as a word, problematic as it is.
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That word is problematic, but the most problematic word in the sentence is the word "work": we need to figure out how to make it "work".
Even more (here's that word again) problematic is the intersection of gender and race.
I have always found the word "queer" problematic and find its use on signs in Hindi to be surprising at the very least.
This word is problematic in the same way as affable, only worse.
But even before WikiLeaks released emails containing those comments by Clinton aides, Chaput had written in a column that both candidates "are – what's the right word? so problematic – that neither is clearly better than the other".
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