Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...laughs; his routines build into angry punch lines delivered as piercing screams. But where Goldthwait is a demented child, Kinison, who drapes his pudgy frame in the seedy overcoat of a Times Square flasher, is a depraved adult, fuming over the indignities visited on him in the Reaganite, feminist '80s. A former Pentecostal minister who grew up in Peoria, Ill., Kinison, 33, specializes in foulmouthed tirades on sex and religion. Several of his lines had to be blipped from a Saturday Night Live appearance last fall, and HBO was concerned enough about Kinison's raw language to reschedule the debut...
...incapable of sustaining a decent relationship with a woman. It is only when Frankie, a public relations expert, takes an assignment for a manufacturer of high-tech doodads for the space program that she finds advanced science has fabricated what decades of psychological counseling and years of feminist lecturing have not been able to create: an android who is sensitive, caring and sexually satisfying in a way that natural men cannot manage...
...shame that Friedan clouded a very powerful--though common--argument against the judge's decision in silly feminist propaganda. What's sperm got to do with it? A whole lot, if my high school health teacher was right. But let's let Friedan get her misanthropic digs in. What's interesting is that this radical chic is arguing such a conservative position. So conservative in fact, that it's one she shares with the Catholic Church...
What Miss Hooper means is to have a feminist presentation of women's studies. And she wants her feminists in many departments, rather than in just one. This returns us to the question, does the feminist approach deserve recognition as a powerful new body of knowledge of use of reason...
Despite Hooper's protest that a feminist Women's Studies rises above propaganda and politicking, she herself tells us. "The aim of Women's Studies is to initiate controversy and change, forcing the reexamination of constraining social structures." I have considerable misgivings about department whose goal is "to initiate change," and whose reading list has the stamp of approval of the N.O.W...