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Gambling
Risking one's own money for the chance to swipe even more of it from others; e.g., playing at the roulette wheel, betting on horses, buying insurance or putting oneself through law school. |
Game Show
How television sends us the message that greed is cute. |
Gay
Festive, lighthearted, free to romp and play; a sunny word appropriated for other uses as the modern world gave us limited occasion to employ it in its original sense. |
Gay-bashing
Violence against men who love men by men who fear they love men. |
Genes
The hand we are dealt in the poker game of life. |
Genetic Engineering
Tampering with chromosomes so that science might develop a new miracle cure or a rabbit that plays the banjo. |
Genocide
How a mad landlord eliminates the family upstairs when evicting them proves to be too much of an ordeal. |
Gentleman
Formerly the male exemplar of honour, nobility and other behavioural relics from the Age of Chivalry; now dismissed as someone with a testosterone deficiency. |
Gentrification
The deliberate transformation of a dull or seedy neighbourhood into a pretentious one, so as to attract a better class of pedestrian. |
Ghetto
An isolated enclave populated by kindred types who would be made to feel unwelcome outside its boundaries; e.g., blacks in 1920s Harlem, Jews in 1930s Warsaw, or women in secretarial pools. |
