Word: feministic
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...immorality goes, feminist visions of sexual liberation may be threatening to some, but we (like Madonna) find the rampant violence and degradation of women on MTV's airwaves truly repugnant. The images in Whitesnake's "Is This Love?" or Warrant's "Sweet Cherry Pie"--both aired by MTV--are potentially far more threatening to American children than "Justify My Love...
...Lorraine Hansberry emerged as a leading voice in the struggle for Black equality in the 1960s. To Be Young, Gifted, and Black tells her story in the context of the growing Civil Rights movement. But to its credit, this play also explores Hansberry's life from feminist and artistic perspectives. Although director Katrina Merritt's staging is conventional, the intriguing script and powerful cast ensure that our interest in Hansberry and the works she created will linger after the lights have faded...
These critics are angry because they don't think that Margaret Thatcher offered women anything as a feminist role model when she should have. They argued that Thatcher, in her refusal to carry the mantle of the feminist movement and her cultivation of macho image, imitated the worst...
...feminist criticisms are contradictions in themselves. The perfect role model for these women would have been a woman prime minister who was a working mother, but who never left her children with a babysitter. They also wanted a politician who played the game of English politics the same as a man, but who also constantly promoted her femininity...
...gender. She got the respect of her peers in Parliament, both male and female, for the tasks that she accomplished--not as a woman, but as a leader. This is much more praiseworthy and a much bigger boost for equality than if Thatcher had been a militant feminist while in office...