Word: sexism
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...like to impose rules on the rest of the country that they don't have to play by. The best example is the Vietnam War, which the Mandarins dreamed up and then didn't fight in. Lifers and Talents see the Mandarins as being selectively compassionate--about racism and sexism and international human rights, but not crime or falling wages--and then creating remedies that affect everybody but them. The idea that (in the words of President Reagan) "government is the problem" is a proxy way of voicing the suspicion that the Mandarins are going to use government to assuage...
...theme of this year's Annual Action Week is "Roots of Violence." And while the themes of EAA's postering campaign--homosexuality, racism, sexism, and classism--are not the foci for Annual Action week, they are issues that are intertwined and contribute to prejudice and social injustice, EAA leaders said. Other issues addressed during the week will be hate crimes, and domestic, economic and youth violence...
Harvard's nine all male final clubs have been an easy target for campus critics of sexism and elitism since Harvard disassociated itself from them a decade ago. But for every woman appealing for change, there are probably 10 of us, men and women, who really couldn't give a damn. Final clubs won't be improved by allowing women in the front door or lowering their monthly dues because the problem with the clubs lies not in the character of their members but the character of their membership...
...went under due to a combination of factors. The club had been shut down down since last year after an ugly incident in which a football recruit was hospitalized after a fight with club members. But the more important issue is that the D.U. served as a den of sexism, elitism and chronic drunkeness...
Such complaints about Amis' sexism were not entirely misplaced. The men in his books are not always nice to or about women, and vice versa. Given a choice between what ought to be true and what actually goes on, Amis invariably chose to write about the latter...