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...shame that at this point in our society's progress women still feel compelled to cling to their historical victimization; the true failure of the women's movement has been its lack of solidarity...
Even Americans woozy from the stock market's climb will not be deaf to these arguments. They still cling to their traditional concept of Social Security as a safety net, not an alternative to Merrill Lynch. More than two-thirds of those surveyed in the TIME/CNN poll said they regard Social Security primarily as a benefit program designed to assure the elderly a minimum income during retirement. And that does not take into account that a third of Social Security beneficiaries are not retirees but widows and widowers, children who have lost a parent, and the disabled...
...fervently did affirmative-action proponents cling to these fictions that they went to great lengths to suppress the facts. In one famous case, in 1991, a Georgetown University law student who found and published the discrepancy between average white and black LSAT scores found himself reprimanded by the university for publishing the unmentionable...
Radcliffe must stop trying to cling to an undergraduate identity; it is unfair to women for it to do so. Radcliffe has a brilliant past in women's education, and it can have a brilliant future as an institute devoted to the study of women and women's history. The women who founded the Harvard Annex in 1879--Radcliffe's institutional predecessor--did so with the aim of giving women students access to a Harvard education. For these women, the standardization of present-day diplomas represents the achievement of their goal...
That is, our society may need to cling to its traditional notion of a sexuality restricted to male-female relationships in order to maintain its cohesion. The male-female relationship has been the cornerstone of families and, by extension, communities and societies, throughout all of history's revolutions in tolerance. We may never be able to tackle this final frontier of social reorganization...