Word: males
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reeves is the first and only one of its kind in Britain -- a hotel designed exclusively for women. Though the owners cannot by law refuse male guests, no man has stayed in the rooms, which cost about $75 a night, or been served in the bar since the hotel opened in February 1988. "We're not hostile to men," says manager and co-owner Carole Reeves. "We're just trying to put women first. Men's needs are catered to quite adequately in other hotels...
...restaurants, meanwhile, women find it difficult to play host at a business lunch or dinner, since waiters typically assume that the male guest will choose the wine and pay the bill. Female travelers also complain that hotels can be careless about revealing room numbers and too often place women in insecure locations, such as ground-floor rooms without door chains or peepholes...
...Right. Since I've been divorced, there has always been a man in my life. I enjoy male company enormously, but I like to keep my personal life private, and I've succeeded in doing just that. But I cannot imagine my life without a man. I think when I'm 90 I'll still have a fella...
Before hitting the beach, some lucky crabs, whose tough, circular shells conjure images of tiny oceangoing Darth Vaders, pair up, with the smaller male crabs locking themselves atop the females' spiny shells with special pincers. For many less fortunate males, who vastly outnumber the females, the frenzy is more like a wretched high school dance: they form a stag line on the beach. Then, when a female, bearing a suitor on her back, wallows up and begins to burrow in the sand where she will lay about 4,000 eggs, as many as 15 lusty males struggle in the waves...
...soft version of Anita had disappeared entirely; she had been recruited by the Nazi party," writes Bernays, whose narrative voice has now been completely subsumed by Barker's character. Bernays is so skillful at presenting the sexist-male viewpoint that, as the anger builds over such an offensive comparison, it is difficult to remember that these are Barker's opinions, not Bernays...