Word: sexism
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...younger generation will catch on to feminism after a little reality therapy. "They don't recognize discrimination as undergraduates because it's so much less overt than in the outside world," says Patricia Ireland, 44, executive vice president of NOW in Washington. Many women do not see sexism as an obstacle until they are well along in their careers and angling for a promotion or until they have their first child and their juggling act begins. Observes Ireland: "Feminism is a movement where women get more radical as they get older...
...Your work is replete with apocalyptic visions: drug addiction, cancer, death, sexism, cultural brutalities. Do you consider these to be the major concerns...
...front of 300 first-year students, sexist jokes do more than reflect the prevalence of sexism at Harvard; they reinforce sexist attitudes among those who are looking...
...contribute to sexism, even if it does have a "right to exist?" Why participate in a tradition that once combined institutional racism, anti-Semitism and elitism (and some say still does). Why even go to a punching event at a club that treats all women--and most men--as second-class citizens...
...refuse to take the insensitivity shown last Friday "in the spirit of things." Tradition is no excuse. The annual showing of Love Story should be revamped. No one needs to wallow in pure, unadulterated sexism...