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dichotomy noun bifurcation, bipartition, bisection, dissection, divarication, division, halving, separation, split, subdivision How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Drawing heavily from the compact linguistic style of modern text messaging, F2F (shorthand for "face to face", that is, meeting someone in real life rather than in cyberspace) draws both upon modern experience and upon classic dichotomies of myth as it represents the technological communications of love. Lawrence observes that people typically participate in various role strata, which challenges the dominance of expected gender dichotomies. A treatment of fans as active subjects as opposed to consumers who are passive followers of the culture industry simply reproduces familiar dichotomies of subject and object, active and passive, high and low, etc. |
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