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Conclusion: Trying to distinguish harassment from everyday schoolyard taunts is a clumsy but worthwhile process.
This, she argues, has led these judges to discount the types of employment discrimination--unfair promotion practice, workplace taunts, etc.--the law was originally intended to check.
It draws sidelong glances and playground taunts, and it may give the adopted child an identity crisis.
But the largest group of gay taunts can be classified as the ped- group, all words inspired by pederasty: pederaj, pederash, pederishka, pederin, pederko, pedal, pedalo, petsa, pechurka, pepos, pedos, pepi, pedikir (a pun on pedicure ), peder, and its facetiously French-sounding inversions derpé and depré.
Américo Paredes cites a stanza from a corrido (ballad) the Mexican soldiers sang after the Battle of Puebla (celebrated on Cinco de Mayo) that taunts the vanquished French soldiers with the following words: