Word: machismo
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...total cost to Mitsubishi in compensatory and punitive damages could theoretically exceed $150 million. The company has also been hit with a class action on behalf of 29 women, which portrays the Mitsubishi plant as a misogynous mix of sexist Japanese management practice and American blue-collar, bully-boy machismo...
...Philadelphia--but no passionate kiss for your boyfriend, please. In the thriller Copycat, the gay character is not the serial killer, he is the heroine's best friend--but he still gets murdered. And gay baiting is still acceptable; "faggot" remains the epithet du jour of movie machismo. In Mel Gibson's Braveheart, early line favorite for the top Oscars, the English prince who will become Edward II dares to have a male lover at court. The King's response: he throws the lover out a high castle window, then contemptuously swats his whining son aside...
...trio of old-pro screenwriters--Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman--and because it was shot in Gotham's city hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani's blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. It drops the right names, purrs with silky threats. The ancient code of Mediterranean machismo operates here. You make deals partly to get things done and partly to make deals. It's what...
...good deal of their music has gangsta-rap aggressiveness (in The Beast, for example, they decry police brutality), but the Fugees deliver a very different message from gangsta rappers, steering clear of boastful misogyny and empty-headed machismo. They criticize performers who fail to make clear that their violent songs are fantasies, not instructions. "You got a lot of kids who look up to these artists, who think what they're saying is true," says Michel, who was a philosophy major at Rutgers University before he took a break to pursue a musical career. "I'm not saying...
...least some of the millions of Americans who have already bought DeAngelis' latest book, Secrets About Men Every Woman Should Know, must now be looking at their partners with smug glances, confident that they have figured out the mysteries of male machismo. It is this false sense of knowledge, based not on experience but on easy answers and ready-made explanations offered by escapist non-fiction, that can truly be damaging. Logically, it would seem that problems would be better solved looking at each relationship rather than trying to fit our jigsaw pieces into someone else's puzzle...