Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thought Maya Prabhu, "they just don't get it." It was one of the first glimpses of a council that, in her words, is sometimes overtly, brazenly sexist, a genuine boys' network, a council where, Prabhu says, she would walk into rooms and find men sitting with their feet up on tables, smoking cigars...
Some former council members agree the council can be a difficult place for women. Former council member Niko Canner '94 says he "did get the sense that there may have been sexist remarks that were being thrown around...
...Martin has plenty of personal agendas in this play that appear suddenly and without grace, bringing the action to a grinding halt. The most obvious example features Einstein announcing that women (apparently as political entity) have on place in science. Germaine, the waitress, takes Einstein's comment as potentially sexist, whereupon Einstein proclaims loudly and victoriously that science has nothing to do with gender issues. Fair enough, but the study of it certainly does, and it was towards this theme that the exchange had progressed, not Einstein's contortion; it is not without reason that there has been no female...
Khoi T. Luu `94: I think it depends on your context of comparison...To the outside world, we're week. Within the family and community we're sexist, and wife beaters...
...think a lot of Asian men are sexist, especially Korean men. The idea of male dominance gets passed down [through the generations...