Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California scientists had designated the last known free-flying condor in the state, hovered over a goat carcass last week in the Bitter Creek National Wildlife Refuge, 40 miles southwest of Bakersfield. Sweeping down on its 9 1/2-ft. wingspan, it settled in for breakfast. But the seven-year-old male bird, which had eluded pursuers for seven months, had at last fallen into a trap. Captors hidden nearby set off small explosives that launched a "cannon net" over the condor, and A.C. 9 was grounded for what wildlife experts say is his own good. The bird was endangered...
...writing in response to Carolyn Greaves and Allison Rader's letter of April 29, 1987, in defense not only of the Pitches, but also of the larger picture of female liberation and male-female relations embodied in the work and career of Annie Lennox of Eurythmics, who sings "Right By Your Side", the offending song. Although the Pitches clearly did not make a very strategic selection, Greaves and Rader deprive the lines they find offensive from any context in the song or Lennox's body of work as a whole, offering a distorted account of what this song means...
...picture of femininity Greaves and Rader offer up to us is, ironically, the very patriarchal male ideal they claim to reject--always strong, independent, needing no one. Greaves and Rader have bought the dominatnt culture's male ethic wholesale, asking for nothing more than a chance for women to become what men have always been told to be. In fact, true liberation for women and men will only be a reality when all of us realize that the whole, healthy human person is able to need and be needed without becoming either an oppressor or the forgotten and self-effeacing...
...Greaves and Rader find unacceptable, but she also co-wrote and recorded, with Aretha Franklin, "Sisters Are Doin' It For Themselves", arguably the most straightforwardly feminist manistream pop song ever. In public appearances Lennox constantly challenges accepted gender norms. The point should be obvious: Lennox is succeeding in the male-dominated world of popular music without becoming a sex kitten, without exploiting her stunning good looks, without mouthing submissive lines put in her mouth by others. She is a talented, strong and competent woman and, unlike Greaves and Rader, she is willing to express the occasional and very human desires...
Many of my male friends said they were turned away the door by large, imposing-looking bouncers who said they would only admit Eliot House seniors and people on their guest list. But when I arrived, I displayed my bursars' card, complete with a Mather meal sticker and walked right in. Most of the women I've talked to say they had a similar experience...