Word: misogynistic
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...view of women remains puerile: hostility toward mature ones (hate the mother), letch for young ones (love the daughter). At least in Deconstructing Harry he was forthrightly misogynist. But he never seems more condescending to women than when he's ostensibly loving them, as with Leoni. That may be why some of his best jokes idealize masturbation. In Annie Hall he called it "sex with someone you love." He has another good line here: "The nicest thing about masturbation is after. The cuddling time...
...despite the deeply troubling elements of Disney’s cartoons, the festival’s overall theme was encouraging. While some critics find it impossible to overlook any racist or misogynist elements of Snow White and her descendants, last Saturday’s event also revealed a trend towards better depictions of women and minorities. After a screening and discussion of the widely condemned Aladdin, organizers presented Mulan, Disney’s 1998 retelling of the classic Chinese story in which a young woman disguises herself as a male soldier and proves her worth in battle...
August Strindberg’s The Father is a dark, deeply misogynist play. It tells of women’s deceitful, controlling nature that results in a man’s insanity, emasculation and ultimate death. But despite its objectionable bias, the play remains relevant today in its honest, albeit paranoiac, look at the core of sexual relationships...
...that it wasn’t as good as the book. That’s an assessment that I’ve revised after rereading the book and rewatching the movie: The film isn’t worse than the book, it’s just a lot less misogynist...
...from Harvard’s dusty academic scribblers and dreary pedants. Who but Cornel West would have seen the possibilities inherent in Bill Bradley’s noble, tragic 2000 presidential campaign, which failed to win a single primary only thanks to the machinations of America’s misogynist, homophobic, racist power elite? And who but Cornel West, having tasted the bitter cup of failure, would return to the political arena so quickly, laboring in the vineyards for the as-yet-unannounced presidential campaign of the Rev. Al Sharpton? In fact, who but Professor West would see that...