Word: sexism
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...secret organizations to secure power and prestige for themselves through their connections only ensures mediocrity at the highest levels of achievement. The best and the brightest who lack these connections would not necessarily receive a coveted law school acceptance if these societies had their way. Luckily, nowadays, while the sexism and elitism of the societies was accurately portrayed in The Skulls, their influence was clearly over-dramatized...
Which is apparently the last thing romance readers want to confront in their spare time. The rift between those who dote on and those who disdain romance novels really centers on the question of fantasy and its proper place in adult imagination. Here again sexism may play a part. Patriarchs have traditionally fretted about their womenfolk's being ruined by a book. Flaubert's Madame Bovary graphically portrayed the ruin that ensues when a young female's head is filled with romantic fancies. Can it really be good, modern critics wonder, for women to be whiling away so many hours...
...that miracles never happened, that the story of Christ on the cross is "a barbarian idea," that Jesus was not resurrected, that prayer does not work, that there is no heaven or hell and that there is "no external, objective, revealed standard" for moral behavior (although, curiously, racism and sexism and homophobia are objectively wrong). Spong also accused St. Paul of being a repressed homosexual and Mary of being a sexually molested teenager...
...without Leviten's adroitness. But Joe Fekieta, Bloody Chiclitz and Dale Kaplan use sharper instruments: humor, enigma, insight. Fekieta's grotesque pen-and-inks, each accompanied by a six-line poem, lampoon sex and relationships as often tangled and ridiculous-think lots of vines and anthropomorphic gourds. Overall, "Sex, Sexism, and Society" puts up a good fight, whether hitting you over the head or searing you with images of injustice, then stitching you up with laughter...
...Sexism, and Society" is on display through March 12 at the Gallery of Social/Political Art at 565 Boylston St. near Copley (Green Line) and Back Bay (Orange Line) stations. Hours are Friday and Saturday, 2 to 6 p.m. and Sunday...