Word: dismissed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...critics and auctioneers who control the system that assigns value to artists' works." That may be so, says Kirk Varnedoe, director of the department of painting and sculpture at New York City's Museum of Modern Art, who does not completely accept or reject the feminist critique. But to dismiss the notion of quality, he says, also challenges the very purpose of art criticism and art appreciation. Says Varnedoe: "One is never relieved of the burden of making judgments about relative quality -- nor should...
...sense of not belonging can begin in adolescence or before. Even the most sensitive parents want to disbelieve a daughter's assertion of homosexuality and may dismiss their child's hard-won sense of sexual identity as "just a phase." Mary Falkner, 21, a senior at Queens College in New York City, recalls that when she came out to her mother, "she took it great. But she asked, 'Do you want to tell the rest of the family?' Without waiting to hear my answer, she said, 'Good...
...some people, fetal-protection policies are merely a way to avoid making the workplace safe for men and women equally. Feminists also dismiss them as discrimination masquerading as compassion, a disguised way of keeping women out of more lucrative men's jobs. Critics of the fetal-protection policies also point out that toxic substances in the workplace may damage genes in male sperm. "A man or woman working in a plant should be told the dangers and make up their own minds," says Molly Yard, president of the National Organization for Women...
...think it might be safe to go out in a thigh-high mini, the fashion oracles say it's the year of the catsuit. I'm going to wear a neck-to-toe unitard in public? No way. I have only to think ladies' room (worse: airplane lavatory) to dismiss such a pernicious garment from my wardrobe. What sensible woman wants to reveal her every -- and I do mean every -- curve and bulge? And who wants to look at them...
...revolution that has largely been won. One measure of the success of the women's movement is the ease with which it is taken for granted. Few daughters remember the barriers their mothers faced when applying for scholarships, jobs and loans -- even for a divorce. Today's young adults dismiss old gender stereotypes and limitations. They expect equal opportunities but want more than mere equality. It is their dream that they will be the ones to strike a healthy balance at last between their public and private lives: between the lure of fame and glory, and a love of home...