Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...read the volumes of outraged male commentary, you'd think Lorena Bobbitt had got her training in a feminist guerrilla camp and her carving skills from the SCUM (Society for Cutting Up Men) Manifesto. "Go out into the world," her trainers must have told her, "find some sexist lowlife, preferably an ex- Marine named John Wayne, and, you know...
...professional sports before, but the spectacle has always been somewhat less than satisfying. Billy Jean King beat Bobby Riggs on the floor of the Astrodome back in the '60s. And while the victory was gratifying for King and anyone who had had to listen to Riggs' frequently pigheaded and sexist comments, it proved nothing. Riggs was by then an old man. King was in her tennis-playing prime...
...unconvincing Cockney whose linguistic foibles wobble from syllable to syllable, quite a handicap in a show about the social importance of accents. She is plausible only in two feminist-flavored moments, denouncing Chamberlain's Henry Higgins as heartless in the first act and reviling him as a sexist...
Perspective, November 1993, Vol. 10, No. 8: On page 4, a clip in the "Salmagundi" section discusses the case of Woburn Vending's sexist pinball game, "Machine: Bride of Pinbot." The editors wonder, "...what other types of conduct Woburn Vending would justify based on its profit potential. 'Machine: Club of the Sealbot,' anyone?" Of course, Perspective would be even more horrified by Machine: Final Club of the Cool People...
...last year, Jesse Furman '94, bon vivant and editor of the Perspective, penned an article which labeled Inside EDGE sexist. Inside EDGE is, of course, the glossy magazine co-founded by Aaron Shapiro '94, which proclaimed in the first issue that it was "better than sex and less filling than beer...