Word: chauvinists
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...become female chauvinist pigs. It's about time...
Though the battle for coeducation is pretty much won, vestiges of all-male days remain to haunt campus feminists. One example: the unabashedly male-chauvinist wording of Penn State's Alma Mater. The anthem's phrase "Thou didst mold us, dear old State," recently lost its refrain "Into men, into men." "When we stood at boyhood's gate" emerged unisexually as "childhood's gate." Elsewhere, however, sexism yet sounds hi full voice. At Princeton football games, for example, "her sons" still give "three cheers for Old Nassau." Princeton Recording Secretary Fred Fox says that if "sons...
...washing machines ("Bloomies" sells neither), more to clothes of fashion and quality, stereo equipment and wacky gadgetry for the compact Manhattan society of small apartments, crowded schedules and casual relationships. These consumers, to Bloomingdale's profit, go for such baubles as yogurt makers, $30 peanut-butter-making machines, "male chauvinist pig" neckties (30,000 sold so far) and even "Pet Rocks" that, at $4 each, roll over and play dead, sleep and stay in place?all on command. This market, Bloomingdale's has learned, enjoys tasting but does not stand still long enough to savor. It thrives on variety...
...Current issues of McCall's, Town & Country and Glamour magazines carry four-page abbreviated Bloomingdale's catalogues offering 29 selections that can be ordered by mail from the store's "Christmas in New York Collection." Among them: a "Wonder Wok" for $28, Aramis "executive" soaps for "your favorite male chauvinist," an electronic calculator in a silver Tiffany case for $150 and Rudi Gernreich-styled underwear...
...their families. Hance, who is a widow, had her three grown children working in the campaign. Hayes's family was likewise supportive, with her doctor husband contributing financially. Hayes nevertheless admits her son did not at first want her to run. "My son was just a Victorian male chauvinist teenager at the time," recounts Hayes. "Now he's proud that I tried...