Word: sexistence
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Instead, the novel's bad "guy"--and perhaps the characters' liberator--is a wonderfully sinister, manipulative creature named Zenia. Zenia, however, resists sexist categorizations in her own way: while seemingly a femme fatal, she cannot be simply, reductively seductive. Instead she remains the evil enigma. Nor is she ultimately fatal to any one of her "brides," although she is to her bridegrooms. Terrible as it may be, Zenia makes the necessary, awful decisions that none of her female victims would have made for themselves, and always for her own profit...
...machine had been ousted from Mather House two weeks earlier following complaints, repeated by Cabot residents, that the game portrayed a sexist view of women...
...fooled, though. The force of this exchange only lasts a few minutes until we're asked to witness a ludicrous closing episode at the French prison where Gallimard has been incarcerated for betraying state secrets. In this scene, Gallimard displays his final transformation from a sexist imperialist into a transvestite performance artist. The inmates seem charmed. But then they--unlike you--don't really have anywhere else...
...condemned to follow the sexist, racist and classist stands within our cultural traditions in order to be considered authentic yellow people. Indeed, the fact that we are creating our own identities is one of the things which is so liberating (and, at the same time, so profoundly frightening) about the Asian-American experience. The fact that we as Asian men are treated badly by mainstream society does not give us the right to prioritize our injurie over the injuries we inflict upon others. We cannot afford that kind of thinking in a world where we all hope to live together...
There is a difference between "should not say" and "cannot say." Remarks which perpetuate racist, sexist or homophobic myths should not be said. But other people must have the right to say them. Having differences in opinion is a fundamental human right. Without freedom of expression, the principle of equal rights is meaningless...