Word: chauvinists
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...movement itself has invited the ironist's eye. Foreigners have traditionally regarded American women with a sort of wary bemusement; they seemed a race of cool, assertive, pampered and sometimes savagely domineering women. In 1898, the Scots traveler James F. Muirhead observed, with what was surely a chauvinist's exaggeration: "Man meekly submits to be the hewer of wood, the drawer of water, and the beast of burden for the superior sex." Yet now the New Feminists assert-an irony that does not invalidate the argument-that it is they who are dominated...
...taken leave from his job as a private investigator in New York City to chauffeur the candidate around, research her speeches and "see that she's fed, clothed, eats on time and gets to her appointments. Shirley's the one out there making it, not me." Non-Chauvinist Conrad adds: "If you are a man-and a mature man-you do everything to maintain your wife's stardom...
What better symbol of exploited womanhood than the pulchritudinous office worker of jest and lore? Lustful male chauvinist bosses chase her around desks, jealous wives plot her undoing, and her alleged lack of brains is a national joke. But at least, says Washington Post Columnist William Raspberry, she has a job-which is more than can be said for her less well-endowed sisters...
Such barriers may fall, but the marquee of a Manhattan pornography house last week offered a sublime example of the chauvinist pig's gift for accommodating himself to the changing times. The current attraction is Ms. Erotica U.S.A...
...Female chauvinist sexploitation will reach a new level of some kind in the April issue of British Cosmo magazine with its first male nude pinup -a center spread of Germaine Greer's husband wearing nothing but a convenient shadow. Paul du Feu, 36, a London construction worker, was married almost four years ago to Women's Liberator Greer-though they separated after only three weeks, says Germaine, because he wanted her "to be a wife." How does Paul feel about giving his all to the pages of a women's magazine...