Word: feministic
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Some 15 years have passed since the rhetoric of the feminist anti-porn movement was appropriated by social-issue conservatives, who were quick to recognize its value. In the early 1980s, when the notion that pornography caused violence against women was beginning to take hold of some feminists, anti-ERA activist Phyllis Schlafly included in her diatribes against sex education a note of concern about the effect of pornography on a "man who is already prone to violence against women." Borrowing from anti-porn activist Catharine MacKinnon, Schlafly wrote, "Pornography really should be defined as the active subordination of women...
...Womyn," Beavis and Butthead go to a feminist rally to pick up "chicks." It was this show that got Cohen a foot in the door to becoming a regular freelance writer...
...Buchanan, the feminist movement is against the will of God. "Rail as they will against discrimination, women are not endowed by nature with the same measures of single-minded ambition and the will to succeed in the fiercely competitive world of Western capitalism.... The momma bird builds the nest. So it was, so it ever shall be. Ronald Reagan is not responsible for this...
...locked in the bathroom together, just on the verge of--oops, my stop, says woman. If the protagonist of "City of Women," Snaporaz (Marcello Mastroianni), thinks this lady's a tease, just wait to see what her friends have in store for him when he follows her to a feminist convention...
...kind of jeopardy--a matter of silences, shadows, and nasty surprises--that blows away disbelief. It wants her to find not only grace under pressure but also empowerment in a world where all the males she meets are either brutes or wimps. Well, all right, you say--a feminist thriller. It's been done (by, among others, Ted Tally, the screenwriter of The Juror, who also wrote The Silence of the Lambs), but you still have to play by thriller rules. When, for example, Annie boldly sashays up to the Mafia capo to have a little chat, we need...