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Parole board approves Henriquez's release
By adamg on Mon, 04/28/2014 - 2:27pm
Although the former state rep still has a couple of steps before he's actually free, including getting fitted for a GPS bracelet, the Herald reports.
Ed. question: The Herald refers to the "co-ed" he attacked. Does anybody besides Herald writers actually say "co-ed" anymore?
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at least his career is over.
at least his career is over. most we can ask for with MA justice system. most cases these criminals have no careers/ jobs tho.
Don't count on it.
He will continue to play the victim and there is a significant number of people in the "community" that agree with his self proclaimed victim status. Remember a few years back when hip hop numskull Chris Brown beat his Pop star girlfriend Rhianna? She was blamed. The Globe polled 200 inner-city teens and they overwhelmingly blamed the victim. Good luck with that.
Ya all the time
particularly when talking about private schools.
Sure, but...
...when used for the school itself. Thankfully, the term's use seems to be falling out of favour when used to refer to students.
Are you
Serious?
yes, they do. Boston Globe writer two days ago.
http://www.bostonglobe.com/sports/2014/04/25/boy-passion-for-hockey-took...
When talking of teams, dorms, schools, yes
When speaking of a female student? No.
I feel like I do still see
I feel like I do still see this regularly enough and in otherwise respectable enough media that I'm getting tired of getting pissed about seeing it, because in the 21st century it shouldn't be such a novelty that young women are educated alongside young men that we need a SPECIAL WORD for those women.
Google search,
word co-ed, select news, 17,100 results. Sift through all 17,000 + news stories for all I care.
You're missing the point
Yes, Patrice Bergeron went to a co-ed Catholic high school, and yes, there are co-ed sports, but Adam is referring to the word being used to describe a person.
It is an archaic word, though being as such I kind of like it. Harkens back to the 1950s, when the local private colleges were single sex and female college students were kind of rare on the co-educational campuses.
I agree with the sentiment below that with the tide changing, it is the males that might be properly referred to as "co-eds" down the road. As it is, the phrase is not pejorative, though I can see the offense.
Co-ed
Maybe not "perjorative" when applied to a female student, but probably patronizing (when used nowadays).
Better phrase
patronizing.
Still, I like the datedness of the word. And that is why it is probably in the vocab at the Herald.
- and another example from Tufts newspaper, three days ago
http://www.tuftsdaily.com/sports/sailing-co-ed-team-looks-strong-heading...
That's a co-ed *sports team*
which is worthy of note, since most college (or other) sports teams are all-male or all-female.
That's still using the word as an adjective, not a noun.
in porn
Yes, co-ed is used all the time when talking about porn. It DOES seem a terribly archaic term; men are students, women are "coeds," who are graciously being allowed to take classes at the college until they can find a husband.
Porn
Should your name be NSFW?
If he works for the porn
If he works for the porn industry, then the porn is SFW.
the post was safe :)
When you include a word like "porn" in a post...who knows what might follow! But that post was safe for work...
coed
as an adjective, yes (co-ed camp)
as a noun (comely coed), no.
co-ed is shorter
Shortness is often needed in headlines. Got anything better?
Compare: "co-ed" vs. "young, female college student"
Why not just "student"
Why does the gender of the person even matter?
Given that in this case,
Given that in this case, there was a sexual assault by a male on a female, sex - not gender - does matter.
I've heard
co-ed used fairly often to describe female college students, in a patronizing kind of way.
Strikes me funny, though- the school in question, UMass Boston is 59% female, as are most of the other big Boston-area colleges. At this pont, we ought to be calling the males "co-eds."