Word: ares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Crimson Key members shout "bitch!" every time the female protagonist comes on screen, first-year students get the impression that sexist attitudes are acceptable here. For all their claims about not singling out women, Crimson Key members would never shout classic racist epithets or homophobic slurs at the movie...
In front of 300 first-year students, sexist jokes do more than reflect the prevalence of sexism at Harvard; they reinforce sexist attitudes among those who are looking to fit in.
HUMOR, like everything else, has its time and its place. Some jokes--like Mason's--may have no place at all. And while most humor puts someone or something down, I try to stick to targets who are not subject to hateful denigration. (Yale, the QRR, Harvard administrators and tenured...
And there are social advantages to having older and more interesting friends than their peers.
"In fifth grade I began to really get into it--you know the toga parties and stuff," says Laszlo P. Nagy, 12, whose parents are the masters of Currier House.