Word: sexism
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Crawford speaks honestly, sometimes shockingly so. Unabashedly, he tells of the desperation that leads him and his friends to acts of racism, sexism, and violent theft. The war makes normal 20-somethings no longer “give a fuck about anything except” themselves...
...faculty. While we understand that this figure is merely a number—one that guarantees more newspaper headlines than real progress—it does show that Harvard takes the promotion of female faculty serious enough to pledge a substantial monetary commitment. Fifty million dollars cannot improve entrenched sexism within academic departments (that demands intense lobbying by Summers and his administration), but it can improve just about everything else...
...attention has had, for Summers, an unfortunate consequence of linking his name not just to his own comments but to a broader cult of sexism as well...
...attributed it more to Harvard and undergraduate education than I did to sexism and gender, but I had a much easier time asking questions and developing rapport with female professors or instructors...
...mean LaBute wants you sitting comfortably. Like a giant, mischievous child poking a dog with a stick, he delights in seeing what he can get away with before the audience turns on him. In his quest, he's worked through a smorgasbord of perversions: infidelity, infanticide, rape, homophobia, racism, sexism, fatism and just plain cruelty. "Audiences are very forgiving, so it's fun for me to see how far I can push before they stop forgiving," he says. "I like to heap it on them, because they come to the theater, they've got dough, they probably live a pretty...