Word: sexism
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...whites and Blacks have united on civil rights issues, men must join women in their fight to be free of sexual harassment. Thirty-four percent of all women at Harvard have been sexually harassed. Such abuse will stop only when the community as a whole makes it clear that sexism is categorically unacceptable...
Neoconservatives have been trying for some time now to incarcerate the term "racism" (and "sexism" too), but Michael Nolan's reply (April 20) to my letter (April 19) won't quite...
...prominent author and animal rights activist, Peter Singer, calls this bias `speciesism' and maintains that it is a form of prejudice no less reprehensible than racism or sexism. This is a fact which we should acknowledge, as speciesism is responsible for the suffering and death of more than 60 million animals every year through research alone...
...time has come, we hope, for students to recognize that sexism is as insidious a form of elitism as racism or anti-semitism. When women are excluded from the clubs, they are excluded from the unparalleled resources of the clubs and from the "old boy" alumni contacts which the clubs foster. Exclusion, and the acceptance of exclusion trains students to believe that it's right--and natural--for men and women to dominate separate spheres. Separate but equal? Hardly...
Scholnick's complaint provides a crucial opportunity to send gender elitism on campus the way of religious and racial elitism before it. Yes, students should mount an attack on the financial and social elitism embedded in our society, our University, and our final clubs. Let us now confront sexism...