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"Longhouse" in a Sentence (15 examples)
They marched in under French Colours and were conducted into the Long House.
We met in Council at the Long House.
One branch of this numerous people was seated on a beautiful river, known as the “Lonapewihittuck”, where the “long house,” or Great Council Fire, of the nation was universally admitted to be established.
The practice of herding together in ‘long houses’ prevents mental and moral improvement and hinders advance in gardening and planting and agricultural developement generally.
The Kenyah village frequently consists of a single long house.
The Welsh long-houses […] with long sides and opposite doors providing a passage from side to side, and dividing the building roughly in two.
The longhouse is an object lesson in community living.
One day our neighbours came back from a trip into the jungle to visit relatives who still lived in an old-style "long house".
To make wads and wisps for those that go to the Long-house (you know what I meane).
Incredible witnessing the tone of the longhouse authoritarian liberal regime is that of an obsessive and histrionic ex or overbearing mother trying to gaslight you. The twilight days of the Soviet union at least tried to project an air of masculine competency via propaganda.
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The most important feature of the Longhouse, and why it makes such a resonant (and controversial) symbol of our current circumstances, is the ubiquitous rule of the Den Mother. More than anything, the Longhouse refers to the remarkable overcorrection of the last two generations toward social norms centering feminine needs and feminine methods for controlling, directing, and modeling behavior.
The term "Longhouse" in online discourse, particularly among right wing communities, is a metaphorical concept that describes a society characterized by matriarchal control and the suppression of non-conformity. This concept emphasizes the prioritization of emotional safety and the avoidance of direct conflict, often at the expense of privacy and individual liberties.
As the concept of the “Longhouse” makes clear, the new administration’s use of “gender ideology” rhetoric isn’t just about trans people; it’s about the upending of traditional gender roles.
Now men are complaining that women are oppressing them. Isn’t the longhouse just a long, male whine about a failure to adequately compete and you’re pretending, “Oh, for the days of the steppe barbarians!” but maybe you should suck it up and actually compete on the grounds that we have in 21st-century America?
Her book includes an incisive discussion of misogyny on the New Right. [Laura K.] Field notes how “gynocracy” and “the longhouse” have become overwrought MAGA epithets for an unbearably feminized and pluralist society.
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