Definition of kneeâjerk. : readily predictable : automatic kneeâjerk reactions; also, disapproving : reacting in a readily predictable way The man was such a bleeding-heart knee-jerk liberal that you could predict the rest of the column after reading the first sentence. â Andrew M. Greeley.
And if the name is as old as Women's Liberation, the problem is at least as old, if not older. Horizontal hostility is a form of power-as-domination between and among women. the most appropriate context for discussing it is in terms of relations of power among women. values, attitudes and behaviours and never behave badly towards other women. important to keep in mind the main enemy, i.e. male domination.
Horizontal Gaze Nystagmus. Nystagmus is a jerking of the eye or a bouncing eye motion caused by multiple factors. It is displayed in either pendular form where the eye oscillates equally in two directions or jerk form where the eye moves slowly away from a fixated point and then rapidly corrects by a fast movement or saccade.