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barricade
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They are proud of their intellectual erudition and cultivate it assiduously (bohemian), but do not, as earlier generations of intellectuals did, see themselves as an elite manning the barricades of high culture against "mass society": they move comfortably within that culture, discerning neither difficulty nor moral compromise in understanding the life of the mind as yet another exercise in self-marketing (bourgeois).
That is why it is somewhat ironic, and particularly disturbing, that for the first time many feminists seem to be advocating the suppression of important women's health-related information that under other circumstances would be cause for manning the barricades with impassioned demands for immediate action.
 
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