Word: feminist
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Every Rutgers student (Republican, Democrat, feminist or not) has been exposed on many different occasions to the fluorescent posters stapled to the lamp posts and bathroom stalls of the University by numerous organizations on campus. Some students may ignore the different views suggested to them as they wait for their bus ride to class, while others feel compelled to voice their counter argument. Still, some can do nothing but tug at those advertisements and toss them in the trash, omitting any possible threat that they perceived. They simply pretend those opinions don't exist...
...feminist struggle seems to be a good place to start looking for an answer, in part because we expect worthy causes to have equally noble proponents, in part because feminists are currently caught up in presidential politics. In the wake of the Clinton-Jones-Lewinsky-Willey debacle, feminists have been charged with crawling into bed with the President (metaphorically, of course), and with being reluctant to get out as long as their interests are being served. In response to the claim that feminists have been hypocritical for continuing to support Clinton through these scandal-ridden months, the founder...
...grouping women with children a raging anachronism? Should not any self-respecting modern person, let alone feminist, object to it as patronizing and demeaning to women? Yet its usuage is as common today as it was in 1912. Consider these examples taken almost at random from recent newspapers...
Here's my scenario. The men, out of sheer irrational gallantry, should let the women go first. And the women, out of sheer feminist self-respect, should refuse...
...antiseptically sex-free workplace is impossible and unnatural. We want a sophisticated art of seduction. Feminist excesses have paralyzed and neutered white, upper-middle-class young men, as should be obvious to any visitor to the campuses of the elite schools. I want a society of lusty men and lusty women whose physical and mental energies are in exuberant free flow. While men must behave honorably (Governors and Presidents should not be dropping their pants in front of female employees or secretly preying on buxom young interns), women must also watch how they dress and behave. For every gross male...