Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...telling what you'll find," he sniffed. Carville trashing trailer parks! It was like Shamu making fun of Sea World. The liberal cave-in was good news for lechers everywhere. A boss paws his employee, drops his drawers, asks for some non-job-related assistance, and the feminist establishment wonders whether this really can, in fact, within the confines of the law, be called, as a technical matter, you know, sexual harassment. The question turns, apparently, on the boss's feelings about federally subsidized child care. "We've got a legal system, and it works," chirped Senator Carol Moseley-Braun...
This has been a strange month for women's issues. President Clinton, arguably the president most favorable to women's rights, the most supportive of promoting equality between the sexes and the most connected to feminist organizations and initiatives, may sadly be remembered as the President who most effectively undermined those very pursuits...
...given conservative groups a chance to come out strongly in favor of what appear to be women's rights. Laura Mansnerus, writing for the New York Times Week in Review this week, reports that John Whitehead, president of the conservative group that pays Jones' attorneys, argued in traditional feminist language: "Is this judge saying that a man can expose himself to a woman, ask for oral sex and put his hand up her crotch and all the while she is saying no, that a woman would have no recourse in such a situation...
Reluctant to phrase the changes in Western feminist terms of release from sexual discrimination, however, Kerin said the reasons why nuns have not created sand mandalas in the past are "very complex...
...hardly be described as age-insensitive. There are exquisitely cut wide-leg pantsuits (one of her trademarks) and delicately patterned knee-length day dresses alongside lavender, lace-trimmed slip dresses, spaghetti-strap tops and diaphanous minis. McCartney's clothes bespeak a mature knowledge of flirtation. "We've done the feminist thing and beaten men down, and now we want to lure them back," McCartney, a tall, cheerful redhead, explains. "I think there's a danger in being too girly though...