Word: chauvinistically
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...incomplete are the ways that would most help us to understand the causes of that consciousness and the way to change it. For example Elena, a one-dimensional woman the hero picks up one day, keeps being described as "underdeveloped," unable to sustain an idea or feeling, erratic, skittish-chauvinist cliches which the film gravely takes for a personality condition that fell from the sky. That's the way she acts, period; that's her given personality, not a product of the specific material conditions and social developments which she's experienced all her life. Like the hero's, Elena...
...self- defensive categories used by critics and artists alike. These distinctions-women's art, ethnic art and black art-betray a self-consciousness that is political. If you are critical of black art, you are a racist. If you don't like women's art, you must be a chauvinist...
...have more commercial allure. Nostalgia, we are told, is in. So is art deco. Alcohol is making a comeback on the college campus, according to the New York Times . And women's liberation, one of our honest national issues, can rightly claim Zelda as an early casualty to male chauvinist pigdom...
Anyone would think Canada's Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 51, was a male chauvinist or something, to listen to Helen Gurley Brown, 49. Asked on a Canadian television show what she thought of Trudeau's recent marriage to 22-year-old Margaret Sinclair, the sexpert editor (Cosmopolitan) and author (Sex and the Single Girl, etc.) used the unminced word "outrageous." Said Mrs. Brown: "What I think your Prime Minister has done is set back the cause of a certain kind of equality for a long, long time. I think the idea that you must go and pick...
...foreman who said that "my lead man is a colored boy" was later dismissed. Seale's own prejudices, in fact, affected the proceedings. When Garry questioned a white employee of the Schick Safety Razor Co., for example, Seale scribbled on paper: "His eyes don't blink. MECHANICAL CHAUVINIST." Garry used one of his last challenges to excuse...