Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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From a distance, Flinn's story, of a luminous Air Force star who committed adultery, lied about it and disobeyed orders to stop, offers everyone something to believe in and rail against. Those who believe that a sexist Pentagon is holding women to a different standard than it has held generations of men before them were glad to see someone take the system on. Those who believe that the public and especially the press don't understand the unique nature of military culture were grateful that the Air Force wouldn't bend the rules for someone entrusted with a plane...
...Clark deserves sympathy. She was the underdog in a trial full of pit bulls: her appearance endlessly scrutinized by the sexist media, her jobs as a single mother and public servant tough ones, her midtrial custody battle an unimaginable burden far removed from the experiences of the Johnnie Cochrans and Robert Shapiros of this world. But it does not help that Clark spends a lot of time airing these very complaints. She may be right, but she is not telling us something we did not already know...
Last week, RADWAC postered the Yard to protest final clubs' policies which the group deemed to be sexist...
...pressman's strike, Graham helped wrap Sunday papers herself in an effort to keep the paper publishing; it's a charming scene, but her account of the bitter labor battle is understandably one-sided. She agonizes about the executives she had to fire, then complains of the "sexist implications" of stories that call her a difficult woman to work for. There was steel there after all. Kay Graham had finally come of age: she no longer had to please everyone...
...their hand at video games, their tastes can run to Mortal Kombat as well as to Oregon Trail. That hardly shocks Marsha Kinder, a professor of critical studies at the University of Southern California School of Cinema-Television. "Those who are urgently trying to reach females end up reinforcing sexist stereotypes, such as 'Girls like cooperative games, not action,'" Kinder says...