Word: objections
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critics object most strenuously to his assertions that such phenomena as sex-linked behavioral differences, territoriality and aggression are fundamental aspects of what Wilson calls "human nature" and have a genetic basis...
...Student Senate, women's caucus of the Student Union, and the Women's Coalition object to Brandeis' connection with a magazine that "demeans the image of women," Leslie E. Martin, a representative of the Women's Caucus, said yesterday...
...plight of the women of Bangladesh is a prime example). In some cultures, like that of the ancient Hebrews, victims shared the terrible fate of their attackers--being stoned to death or bound and tossed into a river to drown. Women were double losers--degraded to the status of object, yet responsible for what befell them, protectors of what object-seekers sought. And women remain double losers, though in a far more subtle way, and to a slowly diminishing extent...
...from the stereotypic, psychiatric construct of mild-mannered, repressed, impotent homosexuals with an Oedipus complex, they are better understood as brutalized, violence-prone men who act out their raging hatred against the world through an object offering the least amount of physical resistance, a woman's body...
...eradicated. She has launched a campaign to suppress all pornography--"the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda." Brownmiller points out that pornography is a key factor in the development of many men. It is "like rape...a male invention, designed to dehumanize women, to reduce the female to an object of sexual access..." She adds: "...hard-core pornography is not a celebration of sexual freedom; it is a cynical exploitation of female sexual activity through the device of making all such activity, and consequently all females, 'dirty'." The perpetuation of rape is predicated on man's ability to perceive...