Word: profeminist
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...their success as a triumph for their sex. "Most women entrepreneurs like to think of themselves as business people first and females second," says Reporter Blake Hallanan, who conducted interviews in the West and Southwest. Washington Correspondent Gisela Bolte agrees: "The women did not strike me as profeminist or antifeminist. Their only cause is to make business work for them...
...which were sponsored by the National Organization for Women (NOW), partisans assailed what Friedan called "the big lies" propagated by Schlafly's group. ERA, they explained, will not mean the sharing of public toilets, approval of homosexual marriage or breakup of the family. Repeatedly, optimistic speakers predicted a profeminist backlash from Ronald Reagan's policies...
While the play might be assumed to be profeminist, most of the laughter it arouses in the audience stems from trading on stereotypical masculine prejudices. Viewing an obscene film involving a pornographic film maker, one of the Justices says of Justice Loomis' presence that it is "like having a nun at a stag party...
...recall that France was the hereditary enemy of England, and that precious few Frenchmen are depicted with anything but derision and distaste in Shakespeare. Apply the argument in reverse. Tennessee Williams has given us remarkable and far from unsympathetic in-depth portraits of women. Does that make him profeminist? If Shakespeare did not lavish his hugest genius on women, it is probably because female roles were played by boys on the Elizabethan stage, and not because he was a homosexual, a supposition Fiedler makes yet again on the basis of the sonnets...
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