While agreeing with Bell on the unlikelihood that any fully mass — in the sense of atomized and alienated — society has ever existed,⁵ I believe that at any point in time, in any social system, some elements may be characterized as masses.

Also, a point that would really distress her, a teacher known to be a same-sexer would be a splendid role model for those same-sexers that he—or she—is teaching.

You cannot have a smartphone on your person during the exam.

2022-03-12, Rich Johnston, “Gail Simone's Fridging Becomes Official DC Comics Terminology”, in Bleeding Cool, retrieved 2022-03-12: