Word: sexist
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...imagine Dowd’s been on fewer dates since its publication), I somehow doubt a book entitled, “Are Women Necessary?”, would be the bestseller that Dowd’s book was. No, such a book would surely be condemned as sexist writing and exiled to the shelves of some backwater bookshelf...
...their mission statements suggest an underlying negativity against the other sex. The group purports to aim to enable women to be more able participants of the global marketplace, but I fail to see how alignments on the basis of gender improve members of the marketplace. HUWIB is not only sexist, it’s idiotic. Let’s imagine for a moment that HUWIB had a male counterpart—Harvard University Men in Business. I cannot believe most Harvard students would think that was acceptable. I dare say Drew G. Faust (soon to be Harvard?...
...reception that former University President Lawrence H. Summers will likely receive tonight just up the road at Tufts University. When Summers’ appearance at Tufts was announced, professors and students cried foul, pointing to his infamous comments on women in science as evidence that he is sexist. One professor went so far as to write a letter to Tufts President Lawrence S. Bacow saying that he should not invite “people who have contributed in one way or another to making racist and sexist attitudes more mainstream” to speak on campus. Much of the harsh...
...little brat is a marvelous creation. These days, no child can be left behind. After all, these kids couldn’t possibly be stupid: They just have different learning styles. Quantifiable measures of intelligence like the SAT are falling out of fashion amid charges that they are racist, sexist, and don’t get little Johnny into Princeton...
Instead, the gender debate, with its unacknowledged sexist undertones, continues to drone on. Sexism is akin to any other form of discrimination, and should not be tolerated. The greatest hope we can entertain is that Faust, by rising above this white noise, will effect positive change for the University and prove her detractors wrong...