Word: misogynist
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...setting from the United States to Europe adds nuance to the plot and updates what is otherwise essentially a rerun. The noirishly-named Max Skinner (Crowe) is a shrewd London banker who revels in conquering his competition through ruthless and unethical means. He’s also a stubborn misogynist, adding to our contempt. Upon the death of his uncle (Albert Finney), he inherits a château in France. Cue beautiful sunsets and rememberances of childhood. The movie alternates between flashbacks and the present day to establish how gentler moments of Skinner’s childhood influenced him. Romance...
...certainly persuasive, it is not very original. Black intellectuals, like economists Thomas Sowell ’58 and Glenn Loury, have been making Williams’ arguments for years. Even when Williams is clearly right—such as in his broadsides against rap music (it’s misogynist) and the reparations movement (it’s a logistical nightmare)—he says little that readers haven’t heard before...
...seems to marry Kafka to Zen.) And then there was the list, thoughtfully and diffidently presented, should you care to read his remarks, of possible reasons—reasons others have proposed, mind you—for the dearth of women in science. So he’s a misogynist, too! Help! For the record, I’m happily married to my male partner of 25 years. My mom is a professor of chemistry. Neither Dennis, nor my mother the scientist, nor your reporter perceives any bigotry in Larry Summers...
...What’s your problem, misogynist?” I said. “You don’t think women should have the right to vote...
What is not mentioned enough, however, is Professor Aaron, who spent these past seven years inside the tortured mind of the megalomaniacal bigot misogynist Peeping Tom hypochondriac called Arthur Inman. In his fulminations, Inman addresses the editor who would not come along until twelve years after his death; he bullies, wheedles, whines, pleads. Then along comes Aaron, who responds to the dead diarist--and in so doing becomes a flesh-and-blood character. Inman says at one point that "a diary expurgated and deleted is a eunuch of a diary." Aaron says at another, "Oh, for God's sake, Arthur...