Word: sexism
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...charming despite his faults. He has a Jonathan Winters-like talent with facial expressions that brings power to his humor in many of the scenes. Vandergelder's "It Takes a Woman," makes his claim that a wife should stay home, cook and clean. Despite being imbued with 1950's sexism, it remains lively and hysterical...
Perhaps it was fitting that on Halloween weekend Joe Mathews donned a particularly ghoulish mask of ignorance for his article on "Why Harvard [sic] Is Sick of Radcliffe." His crude sexism offends us all. Harvard, for which Joe Mathews blithely claims he is speaking, is not anti-woman or anti-Radcliffe. The last time I looked around here, snide machismo was out of favor with men as with women. Radcliffe College is a revered part of this institution--revered not just by its alumnae. It is more than fair to say that Harvard benefits immeasurably from Radcliffe's programs...
...will continue to put the energy of scholars, researchers and members of the government and the media into such public policy issues as women, work and economy, criminal justice and health care, it may be that we need to revisit those old, undead demons: misogyny and sexism...
Women council members accused Hanselman of sexism after he said secret meetings of female council members held to discuss a perceived "glass ceiling" on the executive board were motivated by "sour grapes...
...some ways it is a fissure that runs through much black art of this century. One school of representation has focused on man as the subject of large, impersonal forces -- racism, sexism, poverty. The other has dwelt on a transcendent self in which fulfillment is achieved despite these forces. Black art today represents an uncanny convergence of the two schools, and so replicates the class tensions within a black America that sees itself as both an object of a baneful history and the author of its own history. The buppie and the B-boy represent two salient cultural styles that...