Word: chauvinistically
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Crouse implies that this obsession with duplicating the standard only enforces a level of mediocrity. In fact, it is the pariahs of pack journalism who can most easily surface with original and effective work. In what Crouse characterizes as a "male chauvinist profession," women can't pierce the camaraderie of the pack and enjoy a mobility the regular pack cruisers do not have...
...favorite male chauvinist taunt is that men make not only the best chefs (Carêeme, Escoffier) but the most demanding gourmets too. To kill the latter canard, New York magazine's food maven Gael Greene helped organize a ladies' feast at Manhattan's posh Four Seasons restaurant. One of France's premier chefs (helas, un homme), Paul Bocuse, whose Lyons restaurant bears his name as well as the Guide Michelin's esteemed three stars, flew over the day before the banquet burdened with such Gallic specialties as pate de foie gras, truffles, Mediterranean bass...
...many of them together is to be dazzled −and then to be struck again by the fact that many are not so much names as implied biographies. What else needs to be said about a soldier called Captain the Hon. Fitz-Whisker Fiercy, or a chauvinist U.S. Congressman called the Hon. Elijah Pogram...
...male chauvinist diehards...
While adults were worrying about the effect of male-chauvinist reading on their offspring, the children themselves, some of them anyway, seem already to have absorbed the feminist lesson despite their biased primers. The first-grade daughter of a Berkeley family in which husband and wife share the housework recently noticed, while looking at her primer, a picture of a mother cooking and a daddy reading the paper. "Why is she working and he's just sitting there?" the girl asked. Then she looked again and said: "I know. It must be her week to cook...