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Daughter's Dowry. Reluctance to abolish the dowry is more than a matter of male chauvinist greed. Says Bruce Lansdale, an American sociologist who has lived in Greece for 30 years: "The dowry is just as important as birth and death in Greek family life. For some girls it is a ticket off the farm to the big city. These days, if a farmer saves enough to buy an apartment in the city, it becomes the daughter's dowry and attracts a young engineer, mechanic or construction worker." But for a poor parent with many daughters...
Feminists consider Sigmund Freud one of history's leading male chauvinist pigs. No wonder. The master taught that women are far more masochistic and narcissistic than men and more prone to neurosis, that they are rigid and unchangeable by the age of 30, and unable to equal the high moral character of men. These doleful views flow from a single Freudian concept: penis envy. As Freud saw it, female identity grows from an infant girl's shocking discovery that she lacks a penis. Later, in about the third year of life, she carries this sense of castration...
...first story The Crimson misrepresented Shapiro by quoting her as saying that there were no "male chauvinist pigs" on The Real Paper. In fact, Shapiro never used such a term...
Allow me to go on record as assuring your readers that contrary to The Crimson's report (30/11/76) I did not use the expression "male chauvinist pigs" at a recent R-H Women's Center discussion. Many years ago I vowed never to fall back on that term in public or private; I have never done so; and while I have been known to employ the shorter form "pigs" with perhaps too great abandon, the aforementioned quote cannot be ascribed accurately...
...movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock over trees"), even guileful seduction ("I'm a Libra, what are you?"). Eventually she and Kong actually begin to build a ... well, a relationship, something that was never...