Word: chauvinists
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...fairness, equity, democracy, non-discrimination, etcetera. But, nowadays, the Clubs need be central to no one's life; it is doubtful they're central to the lives of most who join them. Why, then, is it skin off anyone's nose if they are exclusive, discriminatory, aristocratic, or male chauvinist? Why not live and let live...
...other words, chauvinist groups are exempted from the Court's anti-discriminations machinations at last in Rehnquist's mind...
Most Americans--mindful of the nature of a geisha's work--react with disdain and shock. Women whose sole purpose is to entertain men seem outrageously chauvinist. It's not a new discovery that Japan is a male-dominated society, and Dalby certainly does not deny that, on the surface, the job of being a geisha might appear degrading. But she enters the world of the geisha and discovers--surprisingly--a world of women with a strong sense of independence, self-respect and love for the art which is their job. In short, geisha lead an intriguing life that offers...
...with a woman. NOW is a pragmatic political organization. Its president, Judy Goldsmith, has said that it would not support Reagan in 1984 even if he were, by some freak of fate, to run with a woman, because his policies have been perceived as chauvinist...
...other rights movements. It smacks of a slightly cross-eyed fanaticism that might have amused Dickens, of battle-axes who file class-action suits in behalf of canaries. The movement has its truncheon rhetoric. Its ungainly equivalent of racism and sexism is "speciesism." Just as there is the male chauvinist pig, there presumably must be (so to speak) the human chauvinist...