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paternalism the attitude or policy of a government or other authority that manages the affairs of a country, company, community, etc., in the manner of a father, esp in usurping individual responsibility and the liberty of choice 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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Kristof's white-man complex hit a low point when he decided to buy two Cambodian prostitutes their freedom (and flaunted his paternalistic compassion to Times readers over five consecutive columns) and returned a year later only to find that purchasing girls is not an effective method of combating sexual slavery. Quickley shrugs that the voices he wants to record can't be women's, because they are inaccessible (apparently he confuses secular pre-war Iraq, where women were visible in professional and public life, with more paternalistic Muslim regimes). Deweese's examination of Baptist exegetical scholars leads him to the belief that those who oppose the ordination of women deacons do so by exclusively employing selected writings of the apostle Paul and by interpreting his writings in a literalistic manner without taking into account the ancient paternalistic world in which they were written. |
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