Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even though they may now be calling themselves "femaleists," they're still singing the same old feminist refrain: "We're not inferior to men. If anything, we're superior (so stop oppressing us by forcing us into outdated, limiting sex roles, you chauvinist men)!" Enough already! Instead of wasting time and energy exploding what remains of the old sex-role stereotypes, let's move on to the more difficult and important task of creating new, updated sex roles. Do we really need to determine who actually did the hunting in prehistoric times or prove that women have it in them...
...double dose of Ms. McBeal. In the first show, Ally (Calista Flockhart) lands in jail for wearing short skirts, Elaine makes condoms with customized phrases ("Take a number" for Ally), and Elaine's friend files suit against a feminist mag after being fired for being Baptist. In the second show, Ally lands in jail again for getting into a sidewalk scuffle (she does a spin kick!), a terrible unisex bathroom accident befalls Stefan, Cage's pet frog, and Ally represents a woman being sued for throwing her best friend into a garbage canister...
...People take a lot of things that the feminist movements has done for granted," Sur said. "It's important to know that history and to reclaim that history...
...People take a lot of things that the feminist movements has done for granted," Sur said. "It's important to know that history [of International Women's Day] and to reclaim that history...
...convention center. Curzio, 40, didn't know much about Dole, but she was drawn to the event in part because Dole is a woman--the first viable female presidential candidate in American history. "I guess that does make a difference to me, though I don't consider myself a feminist," Curzio said as she and 700 others waited in a jammed auditorium for Dole to arrive. "It would be historic...