Word: dismissiveness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some educators dismiss as simplistic and overdone the notion that girls eagerly await such "feminine" software as Barbie CD-ROMs. With homework, soccer practice and Girl Scout meetings already on their calendars, many girls don't lack for activities. And when they do try their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative...
...read with dismay on the Internet your staff editorial of Oct. 29, 1996 ("Peninsula's Rant: Staff Culpable, Swastika Harmful") concerning Jose Padilla and the Peninsula. Given the condescension and closemindedness with which you, the staff of a newspaper at one of America's finest colleges, insult and dismiss the views of the Peninsula, it should come as no surprise that someone a little less responsible than you chose to tack a swastika on Padilla's door...
University attorney Alan A. Ryan Jr., who will represent the University, Riley and Mederos, said Harvard will move to dismiss the case...
...Harvard players know that anything can happen and it would be a mistake to dismiss the Big Red because it is the underdog...
...remind us all yet again of America's embarrassingly low voter turnout rate and scold those who don't take the time to vote. Rather, I write in response to the kind of political cynicism that allows those who do conscientiously devote time to following politics to dismiss so readily the importance and novelty of this presidential election...