Word: sexism
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...what was most disturbing about the recent hearings was the inability or unwillingness of the white male inquisitors of the Senate Judiciary Committee to see that the twin ugly curses of racism and sexism were and always have been intimately related...
...says she is the real feminist because she wants women to be like men. Men are one way, women are another way. She refuses to address that there is such a thing as sexism," Sydor said...
...Heckerling (Look Who's Talking) have made megahits. And it certainly helps that women have long since proved that they can handle both temperamental actors and macho crews. The worst problem Donoghue had on Paradise was a well-meaning guy who called her "honey." It wasn't sexism, she thinks, but regionalism -- he was a Texan and suitably abashed when the error of his habitual ways was pointed...
That squares with the experiences of Donoghue's colleagues. "It would be Pollyanna of me to say that sexism doesn't exist," Randa Haines comments. "But I've been very lucky. I haven't faced any real discrimination." Nor has Bigelow, who says, "I've never felt I've been discriminated against. There's been great support from the men I work with...
...ACCUSATIONS of harassment, sexism, dirty politics and old-boys' networks fly around the capital, I can't help but sit back and smile. It's about time somebody's talking...