Word: sexism
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...surface, this movie deals with the alcoholism, sexism and abuse of the really codependent but superficially "O-so-happy, June Cleaver" marriages of 1950s America. Through the dialogue and manners of Blanche Dubois, we realize how easily the surface can be scraped away to reveal the truth. Typically Southern and truly deceptive, Blanche speaks her bitter grain of truth wrapped in a sugar coating of politeness...
Harvard-Radcliffe is not a place without barriers to women and, contrary to what the staff says, many of the programs now administered by Radcliffe are important and necessary in a world still plagued by sexism...
...example, can we try to do without those meaningless comparisons between Radcliffe and the final clubs for once? From where I am standing, the two issues do not appear to be similar: where final clubs perpetuate and exaggerate society's sexism and misogyny, Radcliffe's goal has always been to provide facilities for a group that has been historically underprivileged. Never having frequented final clubs, however, I do not feel qualified to expound on them at length...
...Perspective, Harvard Radcliffe's Liberal Monthly and The Salient(Harvard's Almost Liberal Almost Biweekly) decided to break ideological stride with the co-president of the Radcliffe Union of Students (Radcliffe's Liberal Always). The continued existence of Radcliffe, they argued, is patronizing to women, similar to the sexism exhibited by the final clubs, and so long as it exists, Harvard can shirk on its responsibility to its female student body...
...today. These figures, splayed under the inquisitorial electric light and the downward gaze of the artist, are the mainstay of his work, and the fierceness with which they reject the softening conventions of the "studio nude" has provoked a bumper crop of balderdash about Freud's supposed misogyny and sexism. (Freud's own riposte, in a recent interview, was terse: "I think the idea of misogyny is a stimulant to feminists, and it's rather like anti-Semites looking for Jewish noses everywhere...