Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mechelle Vinson, 30, says she had sex with her boss 40 or 50 times because he intimidated her. Standing outside the U.S. Supreme Court last week, she said, "My life was threatened. It was my survival, my livelihood." Surrounded by feminist lawyers who had come to offer support, Vinson turned as one of them declared, "I know a hundred women for every woman like you." Replied Vinson: "They can look at me as an example of hope, and they don't have to live in fear...
Vinson's sexual harassment case, the first to reach the Supreme Court, came up for oral arguments last week; a ruling is expected by July. Supported by feminists, members of Congress and some unions, Vinson is attempting to broaden employer liability in sex harassment cases. Says Karen Sauvigne, a New York City feminist: "If the Supreme Court reverses the case, it will be a devastating blow to women's rights. It will turn the tide." Many employers, however, fear that a Vinson victory will make companies liable even in harassment cases where no complaint was filed and where top executives...
Betty Friedan has dubbed it a "deceptive, backlash book." Erica Jong has called it the kind of work that "could start a revolution" and "serve as blueprint for a new era of feminist activism." Those heated reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement...
...object to equality in relationship, in the workplace, or in the home. I think we do have some problems, however, with being told how and what we can think about women. Perhaps the traditional masculine ideals of sex are pernicious. Why should the neo-puritan conceptions of the feminist fascists be any better...
...compromise is in order. But how can we discuss an issue when one side refuses to recognize the legitimacy of the other? The feminist fascists rely--just as Nazis did--on ad hominem attacks. If you opposed the Nazis, they shouted "You're not a German, or you would agree with us," or otherwise labeled you as a communist. Similarly, I'm told, "You're not a woman, so you can't understand what it's like." Or worse, I'm labeled as "insensitive," hence not worthy of being listened...